Amy King is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and a Westpac Research Fellow. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. She is currently engaged in a three-year research project examining China's role in shaping the international economic order. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Amy has also undertaken intensive language study and fieldwork in China, Japan, and Taiwan over the past fifteen years.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Empire, industry and war in the China-Japan relationship; 3. Trading with the enemy, 1949–52; 4. Revolution through industrialisation, 1953–7; 5. When ideas collide, 1958–July 1960; 6. Comparing ourselves with Japan, August 1960–5; Conclusion: on the eve of diplomatic normalisation, 1966–71; Appendix; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.

'With the support of pioneering multi-archival research, Amy King's pathbreaking book has made a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the complicated dynamics and many previously little studied dimensions of Chinese-Japanese relations in the Cold War.' Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations, Cornell University, New York

Amy King is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and a Westpac Research Fellow. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. She is currently engaged in a three-year research project examining China's role in shaping the international economic order. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Amy has also undertaken intensive language study and fieldwork in China, Japan, and Taiwan over the past fifteen years.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Empire, industry and war in the China-Japan relationship; 3. Trading with the enemy, 1949–52; 4. Revolution through industrialisation, 1953–7; 5. When ideas collide, 1958–July 1960; 6. Comparing ourselves with Japan, August 1960–5; Conclusion: on the eve of diplomatic normalisation, 1966–71; Appendix; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.

'With the support of pioneering multi-archival research, Amy King's pathbreaking book has made a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the complicated dynamics and many previously little studied dimensions of Chinese-Japanese relations in the Cold War.' Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations, Cornell University, New York

Amy King is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and a Westpac Research Fellow. Her research focuses on Chinese foreign and security policy, China-Japan relations, and the international relations of the Asia-Pacific region. She is currently engaged in a three-year research project examining China's role in shaping the international economic order. A graduate of the University of Oxford, Amy has also undertaken intensive language study and fieldwork in China, Japan, and Taiwan over the past fifteen years.

• 1. Introduction; 2. Empire, industry and war in the China-Japan relationship; 3. Trading with the enemy, 1949–52; 4. Revolution through industrialisation, 1953–7; 5. When ideas collide, 1958–July 1960; 6. Comparing ourselves with Japan, August 1960–5; Conclusion: on the eve of diplomatic normalisation, 1966–71; Appendix; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.

'With the support of pioneering multi-archival research, Amy King's pathbreaking book has made a major contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the complicated dynamics and many previously little studied dimensions of Chinese-Japanese relations in the Cold War.' Chen Jian, Hu Shih Professor of History and China-US Relations, Cornell University, New York