Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. Chapter I. The Roots of Mao's Pro-Soviet Policy before 1937 15
6. Chapter II. CCP-Moscow Relations during the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 31
7. Chapter III. From Enemies to Friends: CCP Policy toward the United States before Pearl Harbor 57
8. Chapter IV. Courting the Americans: The CCP's United Front Policy toward the U.S., 1942-1945 74
9. Chapter V. Postwar Alignment: CCP-Moscow versus GMD-Washington in Manchuria, August-December 1945 98
10. Chapter VI. Mao Deals with George Marshall, November 1945-December 1946 119
11. Chapter VII. The CCP and the Cold War in Asia: Mao's "Intermediate-Zone" Theory and the Anti-American United Front, 1946-1947 145
12. Chapter VIII. Mao's Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Cold War in Asia, 1948-1949 161
13. Conclusion 187
14. Select Bibliography 229
15. Index 245