30 Years of Sino-US Relations, a major photo album compiled
by the State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of
China and jointly published by Xiyuan Publishing House and China
Intercontinental Press, is just off the press in both Chinese and
English versions.
The album presents 109 news photographs in an exquisite display
that chronicles significant historical moments in the course of the
development of the Sino-US
relationship. The photos include wonderful scenes of unofficial
exchanges between the two countries over the past 30 years in an
album valuable for its documentation of both history and
politics.
30 Years of Sino-US Relations is divided into four chapters:
Breaking the Ice, Formal Establishment of Diplomatic Relations,
Moving Forward and Appendices. Presented in chronological order,
each of the photographs is accompanied by a detailed explanation.
From 1970 when the late Chairman Mao Zedong met with American
writer
Edgar Snow on the Tian'anmen rostrum to 2001 when President
Jiang Zemin greeted US President George W. Bush at the Shanghai
Scientific and Technological Hall, history comes alive before
readers' eyes. In addition, the compilers ingeniously added to the
book's enhancement by appending the full text of the three joint
communiquis between China and the United States as further
documentation of the bilateral relations.
This year is the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Shanghai
Communique. Statesmen and ordinary people from both China and
the United States have left their footprints on the road of the 30
years' normalized Sino-US relationship. Today, US President George
W. Bush will arrive in Beijing for a two-day visit. The trip marks
as the American ambassador to China has commented yet "another
milestone" in the development of Sino-US relations.
(china.org.cn February 20, 2002)