The Kuomintang And The Future Of The Chinese Revolution

A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West 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 By year’s end, however, cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust.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. On the American side, we meet experienced “China hands” John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service, whose efforts at negotiation made them prey to accusations of Communist sympathy; FDR’s special ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, a decorated general and self-proclaimed cowboy; and Time journalist, Henry Luce, whose editorials helped turn the tide of American public opinion. On the Chinese side, Bernstein reveals the ascendant Mao and his intractable counterpart, Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek; and the indispensable Zhou Enlai. A tour de force of narrative history, China 1945 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.

China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future combines original essays by leading experts with excerpts from primary sources, the latest scholarship, Chinese literature, and Western media reports to provide a comprehensive textbook on contemporary China. Completely updated, China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future is the latest in a series of classroom units on China from the Center of Chinese Studies at The University of Michigan. It is not only ideal for courses on contemporary China but also an excellent supplement for courses in area studies, international affairs and economics, and women's studies. Each section, in addition to essay and excerpts, also includes a bibliography of additional topical works as well as suggestions for complementary video and internet teaching resources.

Previously untranslated writings of Chinese revolutionaries, a group termed "ultra-left" by the Peking establishment. They present their views on socialist democracy, Maoist ideology and China's future.

H N E E N W Mao Tse-tung Ruler of Red China H U M A N I N Robert Payne Copyright 1950 quot by Robert Payne Manufactured in the United States of America loy H. Wolff, New York Designed lay Marshall Lee The photographs of Mao Tse-tung are reprinted by permission of Sovfoto and Triangle Photo Service To the memory of Stephen SlITIITlOnS the first English correspondent to die in the Korean War. J2HC LIBRARY Contents Introduction xv ONE The Forerunners 3 TWO The Young Rebel 2,4 THREE The New Youth 51 FOUR The Years of Warning 75 FIVE Five Battles 109 six The Long March 138 SEVEN The Years in the Desert 157 EIGHT Five Books i 1 NINE The Storm Breaks 2,00 TEN The Wind and the Sand 2,2,2, ELEVEN The Conquest of China 2,41 TWELVE The Shape of the Future 263 Chronological Table 2,81 Bibliography 2,91 Index 2,95