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03806nam a22003017a 4500 |
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20210923111004.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780307887245 |
| 028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME |
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| Distributor Name |
:Brijwasi Book Distributors |
| Distributor address |
:H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092 |
| Bill Number |
:BW/005823 |
| Bill Date |
:08/06/20 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
327.73051 PER |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Peraino, Kevin |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
A force so swift |
| Remainder of title |
: Mao, Truman, and the birth of modern China, 1949 |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/ Kevin Peraino |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: Crown, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xvi, 379 pages, |
| Other physical details |
8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map |
| Dimensions |
; 25 cm |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
699 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
A compelling year-long narrative of America's response to the fall of Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China in 1949, and Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's rise to power, forever altering the world's geopolitical map."--Provided by publisher.<br/>"In the opening months of 1949, U.S. President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe--"perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered," as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong's Communist armies fanned out across mainland China, annihilating the rival troops of America's one-time ally Chiang Kai-shek and taking control of Beijing, Shanghai, and other major cities. As Truman and his aides--including his shrewd, ruthless secretary of state, Dean Acheson--scrambled to formulate a response, they were forced to contend not only with Mao, but also with unrelenting political enemies at home. Over the course of this tumultuous year, Mao would fashion a new revolutionary government in Beijing, laying the foundation for the creation of modern China, while Chiang Kai-shek would flee to the island sanctuary of Taiwan. These events transformed American foreign policy--leading, ultimately, to decades of friction with Communist China, a long-standing U.S. commitment to Taiwan, and the subsequent wars in Korea and Vietnam. Drawing on Chinese and Russian sources, as well as recently declassified CIA documents, Kevin Peraino tells the story of this remarkable year through the eyes of the key players, including Mao Zedong, President Truman, Secretary of State Acheson, Minnesota congressman Walter Judd, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek, the influential first lady of the Republic of China. Today, the legacy of 1949 is more relevant than ever to the relationships between China, the United States, and the rest of the world, as Beijing asserts its claims in the South China Sea and tensions endure between Taiwan and the mainland."--Publisher's description.<br/><br/> |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Prologue --<br/>Missimo --<br/>The greatest force --<br/>The old devils --<br/>Bedbugs --<br/>The dean --<br/>All the aces --<br/>Riverdale --<br/>Wait, look, see --<br/>A new world --<br/>Heaven and hell --<br/>A vast and delicate enterprise --<br/>Neverland --<br/>Heat --<br/>Killing the tiger --<br/>The great crescent --<br/>Firecracker --<br/>No devil shall escape --<br/>Dig up the dirt --<br/>First lightning --<br/>Risky business --<br/>The voice --<br/>Through a glass, darkly --<br/>A rather spectacular triumph --<br/>A force so swift --<br/>Epilogue: the mills of the gods |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
A compelling year-long narrative of America's response to the fall of Chiang Kai-shek and Nationalist China in 1949, and Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's rise to power, forever altering the world's geopolitical map."--Provided by publisher |
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Political Science |
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International relations |
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Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1945-1975. |
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Diplomatic relations. |
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Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States. |
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1953. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
China -- History -- 1949- |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Peraino, Kevin |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Books |
