CAS IR 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kinmen, Dixie Mission, Mao Zedong
11 Mar 2016
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The rise of the people"s republic of china. Us backs chiang, 1943 = president roosevelt and chiang kai-shek meet in cairo, china one of the four policeman . Madame chiang kai-shek, very powerful influence on her husband and modernizing (american), spokeswoman for nationalist china, generates sympathy for china in the us. Champion of nationalist china = henry luce, son of missionaries in china, devout christian, devout anti-comm, admirer of chiang and madame. Chiang at chungking 1944-5; chiang kai-shek and general stillwell (us) The advisor (stillwell) loses faith accuses chiang"s regime of nepotism, corruption, squandering us aid, and poor military strategy. Mao @ yenan = close collaborator zhou enlai. Dixie mission = yenan, autumn 1944 = detached us military unit sent to yenan to help comms rescue downed american flyers, lay groundwork for rapprochement b/w comms/nat"lists. Hurley arrives in 1944 (us ambassador), bridging the gap b/w yenan/chiang kai shek and mao and his group (zhou enlai included)
