Useful adversaries : grand strategy, domestic mobilization, and Sino-American conflict, 1947-1958 / Thomas J. Christensen
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- 2950260
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- Christensen, Thomas J., 1962-
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
- xiii, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0691026386 (acid-free paper)
- 0691026378 (acid-free paper) (paperback)
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- Princeton studies in international history and politics.
- Summary:
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Thomas Christensen's Useful Adversaries 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 from the United States and China, it offers a fresh approach to long-debated questions such as why Truman refused to recognize the Chinese Communists, why the United States aided Chiang Kai-shek's KMT on Taiwan, why the Korean War escalated into a Sino-American conflict, and why Mao shelled islands in the Taiwan Straits in 1958, thus sparking a major crisis with the United States.
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- Ch. 1. Introduction
- Ch. 2. Grand Strategy, National Political Power, and Two-Level Foreign Policy Analysis
- Ch. 3. Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World
- Ch. 4. Absent at the Creation: Acheson's Decision to Forgo Relations with the Chinese Communists
- Ch. 5. The Real Lost Chance in China: Nonrecognition, Taiwan, and the Disaster at the Yalu
- Ch. 6. Continuing Conflict over Taiwan: Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the 1958 Quemoy Crisis
- Ch. 7. Conclusion
- App. A. American Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1950
- App. B. Mao's Korean War Telegrams.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-303) and index.
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