Japan's Economic Diplomacy with China, 1945–1978. By Yoshihide Soeya. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. xi, 187. $60.00.
本书考察了二战后至1978年中国改革开放期间，日本如何在无外交关系下通过复杂法律政治安排与大陆和台湾同时开展贸易，适合研究中日关系与冷战时期经济外交的学者。
Yoshihide Soeya's book, which emerged from his University of Michigan dissertation, covers the period from the end of World War II until China's opening outward with the ascendancy of Deng Xiaoping in 1978. This was a period when inordinately complex legal and political arrangements, concocted by particularly astute Japanese politicians, enabled Japan to conduct trade with both Taiwan and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It was also a period, for the most part, in which China and Japan did not have diplomatic ties. Although sometimes a bit tedious in describing the intricacies of all this, Soeya has done quite a creditable job of explicating the often tortuous bilateral ties between the two countries over three decades.