Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. A Note on Transliteration and Terminology XI
5. Introduction 1
6. China (Map) 6
7. 1. Yalta and the Search for Stability 7
8. 2. The Jiang-Stalin Pact and the Collapse of Great Power Cooperation 31
9. 3. The Seventh Party Congress and the Origins of CCP Foreign Policy 57
10. 4. The Race to Shenyang: Chinese Politics and the Soviet Occupation of the Northeast 77
11. North China (Map) 98
12. 5. Allies and Enemies: Mao, Jiang, and the U.S. Intervention in North China 99
13. 6. The Origins of the Marshall Mission 118
14. 7. The Soviet Withdrawal and the Coming of the Civil War 140
15. Conclusion: Revolt, Intervention, and Cold War 165
16. A Word on Chinese Archives and Materials 179
17. Notes 183
18. Selected Bibliography 223
19. Index 247