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Rise of Mao and fall of Chiang reshape China’s fate
A sweeping account traces Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong from early splits with Japan to the united front and renewed civil war. It describes Mao’s rise, Soviet moves, American diplomacy, and Stalin’s shifting stances as Communists gain control and establish the People's Republic of China in 1949.
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Chang Hsuehliang
Chiang
Japan
Mao
Lian
Yan Ju-cheng
Northwest Army
Kuomintang
Shantung Province
Marco Polo
Peking
Chou
Red Army
8Th Route Army
Chu Teh
Stalin
Manchuria
China
Outer Mongolia
East Asia
United States
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Patrick J. Hurley
U.S
Chiang Kai-shek
Yalta
Chou En-lai
Chungking
Marshall
Kremlin
Taiwan