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402 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1972)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0402 and id is 1 raw text is: Chinese History and the Foreign Relations of Contemporary China By ALBERT FEUERWERKER ABSTRACT: It is frequently implied that there is something peculiarly Chinese, derived from the millennia of a separate and remarkable cultural tradition, which operates to motivate the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China (P.R.C.). It is, of course, absurd to expect that there would be no residue of the past at work in the present, even after the profound revolutionary changes that China has undergone in the past century. That persistence of tradition, however, is not simple and unproblematic. Precisely what out of the past has a functional role in contemporary China requires explication. A distinction between influences from the pre-nineteenth-century Great Tradition and those growing from the importunate impact of the outside world on China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries must be made. And the weight of tradition/history must be compared with that of other factors influencing the formation and execution of foreign policy. This paper examines five components which have determined the foreign relations of the P.R.C. and suggests that they may be ranked in the following order of importance: 1) nationalism; 2) the politics of the international Communist movement; 3) China's domestic politics; 4) Marxist-Leninist-Maoist ideol- ogy; and 5) a strategic-political imagery based on a traditional spatial-ideological world order. Albert Feuerwerker, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan, received his doctorate in History and Far Eastern Languages from Harvard University (1957). He has been Professor of History at the University of Michigan since 1960 and was Director of the Center for Chinese Studies there from 1961 to 1967. He previously taught at the University of Toronto (1955-58) and was a Research Fellow, East Asian Research Center, Harvard University (1958-60). He is the author of numerous books and articles on China and is currently on the Board of Editors of The American Historical Review and on the Advisory Editorial Board of The China Quarterly. Since 1970 he has been Chairman of the Social Science Research Council-American Council of Learned Societies Joint Com- mittee on Contemporary China. 1

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