LibGuides: Primary Sources: China: Chinese Civil War

Online Sources: Chinese Civil War

Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950
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"The Chinese Civil War, 1945-1950, fought between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party (GMD), was a defining conflict for China, East Asia, and the world. The Civil War was marked by a number of large battles and campaigns and the involvement of both the United States and the Soviet Union. The victory of the CCP and the founding of the People's Republic of China in October 1949 shifted the balance of power in the emerging Cold War"
Foreign Relations of the United States (University of Wisconsin)
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This digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. This is a nearly complete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired and processed. The FRUS series, including post-1960 volumes, is available online on the State Department's Office of the Historian's website.
Papers of George Catlett Marshall
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"The online collection also includes the digitized, six annotated volumes published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. - See more at: http://marshallfoundation.org/library/collection/marshall-papers/#!/collection=7"
Acheson, Statement On China, 1949
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"Secretary of State Dean Acheson's view of China in August 1949."

USC US-China Institut

Assignment: China - The Chinese Civil War

"This segment of Assignment: China examines efforts by journalists to report on this final four years of the war and its impact on Chinese society. It features archival photos and interviews as well as interviews with some of those who brought news of this battle for the world's largest country to Americans via newspapers and magazines, news reels, and radio."

USC U.S.-China Institute

Book Sources: Chinese Civil War

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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China Reporting (ebook) by Stephen R. MacKinnon; Oris Friesen
Call Number: Online - free - UC Press
ISBN: 9780520069671
China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930's and 1940's by Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen
Call Number: DS777.533.P825 U65 1987
ISBN: 0520058437
"In 1982, a group of reporters and diplomats who had been in China between 1930 and 1950 met in Scottsdale, Ariz., to discuss press coverage of events in those years. Among them were John Hersey, John Fairbank and Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. These excerpts from the conference transcript suggest that those attending generally praised what they perceived to be their objectivity and ability to overcome censorship. "
Publishers Weekly
Encyclopedia of Modern China by David Pong
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Call Number: Online - GVRL
ISBN: 9780684315669
See volume 4 for primary source materials
The Marshall Mission to China, 1945-1947 by John Hart Caughey
Call Number: DS777.54 .C35 2011
ISBN: 9781442212947
On the Front Lines of the Cold War by Seymour Topping
Call Number: D431 .T67 2010
ISBN: 0807135569
: An American Correspondent's Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam
Twentieth Century China: A History in Documents by R. Keith Schoppa
Call Number: DS773.89 S36 2011
ISBN: 0199732019
Documentary History of the Truman Presidency by Dennis Merrill
Call Number: E813 .D56 1995
ISBN: 1556555679
See especially - v. 6. The Chinese Civil War : General George C. Marshall's mission to China, 1945 -1947
Wedemeyer Reports! by Albert C. Wedemeyer
Call Number: D743.W391 W3

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