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China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation

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China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation - Jian, Chen, and Chen Jian, Professor
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Why did China enter the Korean War? What made Mao Zedong, only one year after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, decide to assist North Korea in fighting a coalition of nearly all of the Western industrial powers? Many scholars have traditionally regarded Beijing's decision to enter the war as a reaction to Washington's mistake in crossing the 38th Parallel and marching towards the Yalu. Based on extensive use of newly available Chinese sources, however, this study argues that China's entry into the Korean ...

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China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation 1995, Columbia University Press, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780231100243

Hardcover