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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Peraino, Kevin, author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Peraino, Kevin, author.       by title:      A force so swift : M...         MARC Display

A force so swift : Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949 / Kevin Peraino. by 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. Requests:  0 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 327.73051 Pe Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kalihi-Palama Public Library Adult Nonfiction 327.73051 Pe Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Nonfiction 327.73051 Pe Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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