"A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World War II and the start of the Long Cold War; the almost-nuclear war over the Quemoy Islands in 1954-1955; the detente, deceptions, and denials surrounding the 1972 Shanghai Communique; the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1995-1996; and the rise of postcolonial nationalism in contemporary Taiwan"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments and Notes on Doing International Scholarship
• List of Abbreviations
• Persons and Places with Naming Changes or Complications
• Introduction. Mapping the Rhetorical Histories of U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations
• Chapter One. Wandering in a Labyrinth of Ignorance, Error, and Conjecture, 1945–1952
• Chapter Two. Avoiding a Chain Reaction of Disaster, 1952–1955
• Chapter Three. I Will Never Sell You Down the River, 1971–1972
• Chapter Four. We Prefer to Stay Single, 1990–1998
• Chapter Five. A Free and Democratic People, 2016–2020
• Conclusion
• Appendix. A Timetable of U.S.-China-Taiwan Communication, 1990–1998
• Notes
• Index