Mao's China and the Cold War

by Chen, Jian; Jian, Chen

• ISBN13: 9780807826171
• ISBN10: 0807826170
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

This comprehensive study of China's experience during the Cold War, based on American and recently declassified Chinese sources, reveals the crucial role China played in the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union

Author Biography

Chen Jian is C. K. Yen Professor of Chinese-American Relations at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, Professor of History at the University of Virginia, and Zijiang Visiting Professor at East China Normal University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	I
The Chinese Civil War and the Rise of the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1946	17	(21)
The Myth of America's Lost Chance in China	38	(11)
Mao's Continuous Revolution and the Rise and Demise of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963	49	(36)
China's Strategies to End the Korean War, 1950-1953	85	(33)
China and the First Indochina War, 1950-1954	118	(27)
Beijing and the Polish and Hungarian Crises of 1956	145	(18)
Beijing and the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958	163	(42)
China's Involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969	205	(33)
The Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969-1972	238	(39)
Epilogue The Legacies of China's Cold War Experience	277	(8)
Notes	285	(88)
Bibliographic Essay	373	(14)
Index	387