| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.4

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Congress and the U.S.-China Relationship, 1949–1979. By Guangqiu Xu. (Akron: University of Akron Press, 2007. xiv, 409 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-1-931968-36-2.)

In an ambitious, if flawed, examination of congressional influence on U.S.-Chinese relations from the Communist takeover in 1949 through the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, Guangqiu Xu argues that Congress played a significant role in the evolution of U.S. policy toward the People's Republic of China (PRC). The author explores both statutory and nonlegislative congressional actions toward China; Beijing's responses to those actions; and, to a lesser extent, the tensions inherent in policy making between Congress and the White House. He concludes that during this period, "Congress was a prime factor in establishing the general context of China policy" and played "a crucial part in the formulation and conduct" of that policy (p. 302).

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