Introduction / Warren I. Cohen - - The revolutionary challenge to early U.S. Cold War policy in Asia / Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine - - A house divided : the United States, the Department of State, and China / Nancy Bernkopf Tucker - - The best defense is a good offense : evolution of American strategy in East Asia / Marc S. Gallicchio - - Eisenhower and Sino-American confrontation / Waldo Heinrichs - - Eisenhower's foreign economic policy with respect to Asia / Burton Kaufman - - The Eisenhower Administration and changes in Western embargo policy against China / Qing Simei - - Search for a modus vivendi : Anglo-American relations and China policy / Rosemary Foot - - Japan and the Soviet role in East Asia / Hiroshi Kimura and Konstantin Sarkisov - - From San Francisco to Suez and beyond : Anglo-Japanese relations / Roger Buckley. Alliance in crisis : the Lucky Dragon incident and Japanese-American relations / Roger Dingman - - U.S. China policy in the Eisenhower era : a Soviet view / Peter Ivanov - - The evolution of the People's Republic of China's policy towards the offshore islands / He Di - - British policy in Southeast Asia : the Eisenhower era / Anthony Short - - The American search for stability in Southeast Asia : the SEATO structure of containment / Gary Hess - - Breakthrough to the East : Soviet Asian policy in the 1950s / Steven I. Levine.