Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Cultural Visions and Foreign Policy 1
5. Chapter one. Perceptions and Realities: Chinese and American Visions of Modernity and Identity 10
6. Chapter two. Straining the Relationship: Truman and the Reconstruction of China after World War II 33
7. Chapter three. Disillusionment and Polarization: The Failure of the Marshall Mission and Deepening Divisions in Nationalist China 57
8. Chapter four. New American Strategies Debates over the Chinese Communist Party and Taiwan in the Truman Administration 95
9. Chapter five. Two Sides of One Coin The CCP’s Policies toward the Soviet Union and the United States 113
10. Chapter six. From Adversaries to Enemies Military Confrontation in Korea 143
11. Chapter seven. Inducement versus Containment U.S. China Policy under Eisenhower 169
12. Chapter eight. The Foundation of New China: Conflicting CCP Visions of Industrialization in the 1950s 205
13. Chapter nine. Mao’s Magic Weapon From a Gradualist Political Program to the Hundred Flowers Policy 228
14. Chapter ten. Becoming First-Class Citizens of the World China’s Diplomacy of Peaceful Coexistence 253
15. Conclusion: Ways of War and Peace 297
16. Notes 309
17. Primary Sources 381
18. Index 387