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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.

Table of Contents:

• The Chinese civil war and the rise of the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1946
• The myth of America's lost chance in China
• Mao's continuous revolution and the rise and demise of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963
• China's strategies to end the Korean War, 1950-1953
• China and the first Indo China war, 1950-1954
• Beijing and the Polish and Hungarian crises of 1956
• Beijing and the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958
• China's involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969
• The Sino-American reapprochement, 1969-1972
• The legacies of China's Cold War experience.

Author/Creator:

Chen, Jian, 1952-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Mao's China and the cold war [by Chen, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Mao's China and the cold war [by Chen, J.] (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2001 — ISBN 9780807826171; LCCN 00067240; OCLC Number 45419053)

Related Series:

New Cold War history

Alternate Titles:

Cover title: Mao's China & the cold war

Subjects:

China — Foreign relations — 1949-

Cold War

Cold War (1945-1989)

Since 1945

Diplomatic relations

China

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-372) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 400 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS777.8 .C4314 2001eb

ISBNs:

9780807898901 (electronic bk.)
0807898902 (electronic bk.)
9781469604244 (electronic bk.)
1469604248 (electronic bk.)
0807826170 (alk. paper) [Invalid]
0807849324 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780807826171 [Invalid]
9780807849323 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

00067240 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

593304469