China and Japan: Different Beds, Different Dreams

Walter LaFeber is chairman of the history department at Cornell University. He is the author of America, Russia and the Cold War (New York; John Wiley, 1967) ; John Quincy Adams and American Continental Empire (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965) ; and The New Empire: An Interpretation of American Expansion, 1860–1898 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1963).