A force so swift : Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949 / Kevin Peraino
- Bib ID:
- 7500442
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Peraino, Kevin, author
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Description:
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- New York : Crown, [2017]
- xvi, 379 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBN:
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- 9780307887238 (hardcover)
- 0307887235 (hardcover)
- Summary:
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"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.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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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
- China
- Taiwan
- United States
- Also Titled:
- Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949
- Copyright:
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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