《中美关系史》是关于1784年美国第一艘商船“中国皇后号”远航广州到2004年布什政府第一任期为止的中美关系的通史性著作。全书根据中美双方的资料，简明扼要地叙述了悠长岁月中的两国关系，展现了两国关系极其丰富又错综复杂的图景；作者力求持论公平，分析客观，既注意照顾全面，也对重要的政策、事件进行了重点剖析；书中既注意了历史的延续性，又鲜明指出了各个不同阶段两国关系的不同特征。作者也对未来的两国关系作了展望。

編校者錢乘旦，南京大學歷史系教授、博士生導師、中國史學會理事、中國英國史研究會常務副會長，專治世界史與現代化理論研究，著有《在傳統與變革之間︰英國文化模式溯源》等書。 譯者計秋楓，南京大學歷史系教授，專治國際關係史和中外關係史，著有《歐洲的夢想與現實︰歐洲統一的歷程與前景》、《漫漫長路︰近代國際體系的萌芽與確定》等書及譯著數部。

Mann's colorful and detailed narrative, studded with dozens of vivid anecdotes, reveals how ineptly [we] have managed our ties with the world's most populous nation. -- The Washington Post Book World Drawing on hundreds of previously classified documents, scores of interviews, and his own experience, James Mann, former Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief, presents the fascinating inside story of contemporary U.S.-China relations. President Nixon and Secretary of State Kissinger began their diplomacy with China in an attempt to find a way out of Vietnam. The remaining Cold War presidents saw China as an ally against the Soviet Union and looked askance at its violations of international principles. With the end of communism and China's continued human rights abuses, the U.S has failed to forge a genuinely new relationship with China. This is the essential story of contemporary U.S./China policy.

在中国失掉的机会。 埃谢里克（Esherick，J.W.）即周瑞德。

For more than twenty years after the Communist Revolution in 1949, China and most of the western world had no diplomats in each others' capitals and no direct way to communicate. Then, in July 1971, Henry Kissinger arrived secretly in Beijing on a mission which quickly led to the reopening of relations between China and the West and changed the course of post-war history. For the past forty years, Kissinger has maintained close relations with successive generations of Chinese leaders, and has probably been more intimately connected with China at the highest level than any other western figure. This book distils his unique experience and long study of the 'Middle Kingdom', examining China's history from the classical era to the present day, and explaining why it has taken the extraordinary course that it has. The book concentrates on the decades since 1949, presenting brilliantly drawn portraits of Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping and other Chinese leaders, and reproducing verbatim Kissinger's conversations with each of them. But Kissinger's eye rarely leaves the long continuum of Chinese history: he describes the essence of China's approach to diplomacy, strategy and negotiation, and the remarkable ways in which Communist-era statesmen have drawn on methods honed over millennia. At the end of the book, Kissinger reflects on these attitudes for our own era of economic interdependence and an uncertain future. On China is written with great authority, complete accessibility and with many wider reflections on statecraft and diplomacy distilled from years of experience. At a moment when the rest of the world is thinking about China more than ever before, this timely book offers insights that no other can.

本书系三卷本《中美关系史》之第三卷，从尼克松访华打破中美关系坚冰写到中美关于“入世”谈判达成协议。在这三十年间，发生了许多重大事件，中美关系历经风雨，跌宕起伏，既反映双方的深刻分歧，也凸显了两国间深远和广泛的共同利益。 本书用翔实的史料，多视角地展现了三十年间内涵极为复杂的过程。作者为国内一流的美国问题研究专家，供职于中国社科院美国问题研究所，长期从事中美关系研究，已出版的《中美关系史1949－1972》已被选为大学教材。