America\'s Failure in China, 1941-50 by Tang Tsou Vols 1-2 PB 1967 W5 For Sale

America\'s Failure in China 1941-50, Vols. 1 and 2. Tang Tsou. University of Chicago, 1967. Softcover, 345/269 pages, index. Scholarly study of U.S. policy toward China during World War II and the Chinese Civil War. The book examines why American efforts to support Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government and prevent a Communist victory ultimately failed. Tsou analyzes diplomatic decisions, military aid, internal Chinese politics, and American misunderstandings of China’s social and political realities. It is an important work for understanding U.S.-China relations and the origins of Cold War tensions in East Asia.
“A torrent of books has poured from the presses in recent years on the failure which changed the shape of half the world. But it has taken Professor Tang Tsou, China-born but now an American citizen, to produce the best study, an absolutely first-rate analysis of both Chinese and United States policy in that critical period from 1941 to 1950.”—Newsweek.
“This is the most comprehensive, well-documented and fairminded study that has yet appeared on American policy towards China from Pearl Harbor to the intervention of Communist China in the Korean war.”—G. F. Hudson, The Spectator.
“. . . brilliantly dissects Washington’s policies between 1941 and 1950 . . . it is history presented with great depth and fearless honesty.”—Frederick Nossal, Saturday Review.
“. . . a brilliant volume, a major contribution to knowledge.” —Robert H. Ferrell, Yale Review.
“Dr. Tsou achieves a new level of perspective on Chinese and American attitudes both by his comprehensive grasp of the sources and by his analytic acumen. . . [his] judicious summary of the vicissitudes of our China policy in the late 1940’s. . . sets the stage admirably for the study of Sino-American relations as contact-and-conflict between civilizations—an effort that is long overdue and increasingly needed.”—John
K. Fairbank, Pacific Affairs.
Tang Tsou is professor in the Departments of Political Science and of Far Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and also a research associate in the Center for the Study of American Foreign and Military Policy, The University of Chicago. He is the author of The Embroilment over Quemoy: Mao, Chiang, and Dulles.