{"product_id":"2940149053391","title":"High Seas Buffer: The Taiwan Patrol Force, 1950\u0026#x2013;1979","description":"Between 1950 and 1979, during the Cold War, much of the U.S. Navy’s relationship\u003cbr\u003ewith China centered around the Taiwan Patrol Force, whose duties included patrolling\u003cbr\u003ethe international waters off mainland China’s Fujian Province, which separates\u003cbr\u003ethe mainland from the island of Taiwan. Based on Taiwan at Keelung in the north and\u003cbr\u003eat Kaohsiung in the south, U.S. Seventh Fleet sailors who were assigned to those patrol\u003cbr\u003eduties—mainly in destroyers and destroyer escorts—found on the island the only direct\u003cbr\u003erelationship available to them to interact with China and Chinese culture. Mainland\u003cbr\u003eChina remained distant and obscure, sensed only by the distinctive smell of the land\u003cbr\u003ethat many a sailor commented on in approaching the Chinese coast, even before it became distantly visible from the deck. American sailors in those years could get closer\u003cbr\u003eonly during the occasional port visit to the British crown colony of Hong Kong, where\u003cbr\u003ethey could take an opportunity to go to the far side of Hong Kong’s New Territories to\u003cbr\u003epeer across the closed border into the People’s Republic of China and to try to imagine\u003cbr\u003ewhat the mainland was really like.\u003cbr\u003eIn this volume, Bruce Elleman, research professor in the Maritime History Department\u003cbr\u003eat the Naval War College, applies his expertise as one of the College’s specialists in\u003cbr\u003eChinese language and history to provide a pioneering history of American naval experience\u003cbr\u003ein the Taiwan Patrol. His focus reflects the Naval War College’s interests in the policy,\u003cbr\u003estrategy, and operational levels and is designed to provide a historical complement\u003cbr\u003eto other work on current issues being done at the Naval War College—in the China\u003cbr\u003eMaritime Studies Institute and in other departments.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084588925168,"sku":"2940149053391","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149053391_p0.jpg?v=1763718403","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149053391","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}