Author: PERAINO, KEVIN
Title: A force so swift. Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949
Description: New York: Crown, 2017 (1st ed.); 8vo (24cm), xvi+379pp., black-white photographs, endnotes, bibliography, index, hardcover w. dustjacket. Small red dot under bookblock, otherwise like new. Rare in NL ¶ The fall of nationalist China in 1949 as a consequence of an extraordinary political revolution continues to shape American East Asian politics to this day.

Keywords: China foreign policy USA