Mao's China and the Cold War

Name: Mao's China and the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780807849323

ISBN-10: 0807849324

ISBN-13: 9780807849323

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jian Chen

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This comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the orientation of the global Cold War and the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. The success of China's Communist revolution in 1949 set the stage, Chen says. The Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, and the Vietnam War--all of which involved China as a central actor--represented the only major "hot" conflicts during the Cold War period, making East Asia the main battlefield of the Cold War, while creating conditions to prevent the two superpowers from engaging in a direct military showdown. Beijing's split with Moscow and rapprochement with Washington…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 6/25/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Jian Chen is a Professor of Fermentation Engineering at Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China. Yang Zhu is Senior Scientist at TNO Quality of Life, Zeist, The Netherlands.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



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 Indochina 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 Rapprochement, 1969-1972


Epilogue: The Legacies of China's Cold War Experience


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index