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China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

Bernstein, Richard

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryChinese HistoryInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0307743217
ISBN13: 9780307743213
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Oct 27 2015
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
At the beginning of 1945, relations between America and the Chinese Communists couldn't have been closer. Chinese leaders talked of America helping to lift China out of poverty; Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries. By year's end, Chinese Communist soldiers were setting ambushes for American marines; official cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust, a pattern which would continue for a quarter century, with the devastating wars in Korea and Vietnam among the consequences.

In China 1945, Richard Bernstein tells the incredible story of the sea change that took place during that year--brilliantly analyzing its far-reaching components and colorful characters, from diplomats John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service to Time journalist, Henry Luce; in addition to Mao and his intractable counterpart, Chiang Kai-shek, and the indispensable Zhou Enlai. A tour de force of narrative history, China 1945 examines American power coming face-to-face with a formidable Asian revolutionary movement, and challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern Sino-American relations.

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