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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Bernstein, Richard, 1944-     Subjects     Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.     Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.     United States -- Foreign relations -- China.     China -- Foreign relations -- United States.     China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949.     Taiwan -- History -- 1945-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bernstein, Richard, 1944-       by title:      China 1945 : Mao's r...         MARC Display

China 1945 : Mao's revolution and America's fateful choice / Richard Bernstein. by Bernstein, Richard, 1944- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Subjects Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.   Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975.   United States -- Foreign relations -- China.   China -- Foreign relations -- United States.   China -- History -- Republic, 1912-1949.   Taiwan -- History -- 1945- ISBN:  9780307595881 (hardcover) : 0307595889 (hardcover) Description:  x, 445 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  Examines the first episode in which American power and good intentions came face-to-face with a powerful Asian revolutionary movement, and challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern Sino-American relations. As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China's Communist rebels--their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which American money and technology would help lift China out of poverty. Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries, vowing to them his intention of establishing an American-style democracy in China. By year's end, however, cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust. Chinese Communist soldiers were setting ambushes for American marines in north China; Communist newspapers were portraying the United States as an implacable imperialist enemy; civil war in China was erupting. The pattern was set for a quarter century of almost total Sino-American mistrust, with the devastating wars in Korea and Vietnam among the consequences. Richard Bernstein here tells the incredible story of that year's sea change, brilliantly analyzing its many components, from ferocious infighting among U.S. diplomats, military leaders, and opinion makers to the complex relations between Mao and his patron, Stalin.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 327.73051 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library Adult Nonfiction 327.73051 Be Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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