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Mission to Yenan : American Liaison with the Chinese Communists, 1944-1947.

Conventional wisdom informs us that ""only Nixon could go to China."" In fact, in 1944, nearly thirty years before his historic trip, the American military established the first liaison and intelligence-gathering mission with the Chinese Communists in Yenan. Commonly referred to...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Carter, Carolle J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
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Sumario:Conventional wisdom informs us that ""only Nixon could go to China."" In fact, in 1944, nearly thirty years before his historic trip, the American military established the first liaison and intelligence-gathering mission with the Chinese Communists in Yenan. Commonly referred to as the Dixie Mission, the detached military unit sent to Yenan was responsible for transmitting weather information, assisting the Communists in their rescue of downed American flyers, and laying the groundwork for an eventual rapprochement between the Communists and Nationalists, the two sides struggling in the ongoin
Descripción Física:1 online resource (296 pages)
ISBN:9780813156545
0813156548