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Useful Adversaries : Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958 /

This book provides a new analysis of why relations between the United States and the Chinese Communists were so hostile in the first decade of the Cold War. Employing extensive documentation, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Com...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Christensen, Thomas J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1997]
Colección:Princeton studies in international history and politics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Preface
  • Note on Translation and Romanization
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Grand Strategy, National Political Power, and Two-Level Foreign Policy Analysis
  • Chapter 3. Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World
  • Chapter 4. Absent at the Creation: Acheson's Decision to Forgo Relations with the Chinese Communists
  • Chapter 5. The Real Lost Chance in China: Nonrecognition, Taiwan, and the Disaster at the Yalu
  • Chapter 6. Continuing Conflict over Taiwan: Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the 1958 Quemoy Crisis
  • Chapter 7. Conclusion
  • Appendix A. American Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1950
  • Appendix B. Mao's Korean War Telegrams
  • Bibliography
  • Index