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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Peraino, Kevin, author.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945.
Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975.
China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan.
Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
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A force so swift : M...
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A force so swift : Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949 / Kevin Peraino.
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Peraino, Kevin, author.
New York : Crown, c2017.
Subjects
United States -- Foreign relations -- China.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953.
China -- Politics and government -- 1937-1945.
Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975.
China -- Foreign relations -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan.
Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9780307887238 (hardcover) :
0307887235 (hardcover)
Description:
xvi, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Prologue -- Missimo -- The greatest force -- The old devils -- Bedbugs -- The dean -- All the aces -- Riverdale -- Wait, look, see -- A new world -- Heaven and hell -- A vast and delicate enterprise -- Neverland -- Heat -- Killing the tiger -- The great crescent -- Firecracker -- No devil shall escape -- Dig up the dirt -- First lightning -- Risky business -- The voice -- Through a glass, darkly -- A rather spectacular triumph -- A force so swift -- Epilogue, the mills of the gods.
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Summary:
"A compelling year-long narrative of America's response to the fall of Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China in 1949, and Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's rise to power, forever altering the world's geopolitical map."--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
Social Science & Philosophy
327.73051 Pe
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Kalihi-Palama Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
327.73051 Pe
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Nanakuli Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
327.73051 Pe
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