CONTENTS

Foreword

Part I. The Origin and Development of Chinese Communism, 1917–1941

ITo Build a Communist Movement in China, 1917–1927

IIThe “Soviet” Experiment, 1927–1931

IIIDefeat in Kiangsi, 1931–1934

IVFrom the Long March to the United Front, 1934–1937

VThe Road to War, 1937–1941

Part II. The American Experience in China, 1941–1949

VIWorld War II, the United States and China, 1941–1944

VIIThe United States, the Soviet Union, and China, 1945

VIIIStrategies in Conflict, 1946–1949

Part III. The Sino-Soviet Relationship, 1949–1972

IXThe Soviet Union and the Chinese People’s Republic, 1949–1959

XThe Polarization of Communist Politics, 1959–1965

XIThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

I: The Mounting Crisis, 1965–1967

XIIThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

II: Protracted Crisis, 1967–1968

XIIIChina, the Unsettled Dragon, 1969–1972

Notes

Index