Table of Contents:
  • The Chinese civil war and the rise of the Cold War in East Asia, 1945-1946
  • The myth of America's lost chance in China
  • Mao's continuous revolution and the rise and demise of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963
  • China's strategies to end the Korean War, 1950-1953
  • China and the first Indo China war, 1950-1954
  • Beijing and the Polish and Hungarian crises of 1956
  • Beijing and the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958
  • China's involvement in the Vietnam War, 1964-1969
  • The Sino-American reapprochement, 1969-1972
  • The legacies of China's Cold War experience.