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Stephen J. Hartnett is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He is the director of the UCD College-in-Prison Program, served as the 2017 president of the National Communication Association, and is the editor of Captured Words/Free Thoughts, the annual arts and politics magazine. He has published ten books, including A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold War (2021) and the coedited Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (2017). His scholarship on international affairs has appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, the International Journal of Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, the Taiwan Journal of Democracy, the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and the Quarterly Journal of Speech. His journalism on U.S.-China-Taiwan relations has appeared in SupChina, Public Seminar, New Lines Magazine, and Communication Currents. He has served since 2016 as one of co-organizers for five conferences in Beijing, one in Shenzhen, one in Hong Kong, and one online conference in Shanghai (during COVID). He has been awarded the Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical Criticism, the James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, the Association for Chinese Communication Studies' Xiao Award for Outstanding Rhetorical Research, and the University of Colorado's Thomas Jefferson Award.

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"This book examines the post WWII relationship between the US and China, particularly focusing on the quick development from World War 2 allies to the rise of McCarthyism in the early 1950s. Stephen J. Hartnett's argues that the key turning point in the relationship between the two countries rests with the resignation of Patrick Hurley, US ambassador to China, in November 1947. The Lost Chance in China and the Rise of Cold War Populism offers a new take on the developments following the end of World War and America's position in the conflict between China and Taiwan through a rhetorical lens. Analyzing rhetorical patterns from the mid-twentieth century to today, Hartnett unearths how they continue to block the path toward mutual understanding between the two nations "-- Provided by publisher.