Chen - Maos China and the cold war

The completion of this book would have been impossible without the generous institutional and financial support I have received in the past decade. In particular, I would like to acknowledge a Norwegian Nobel Institute fellowship in 1993, a Dr. Nuala McGann Drescher Leave Program Fellowship from the State University of New York in fall 1994, a summer fellowship and a two-year special research grant from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale in 1996 and 199799, and a senior fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace in 199697.

John Lewis Gaddis, Michael Schaller, Jonathan Spence, and Odd Arne Westad read the entire manuscript and provided me with critical comments and suggestions. William Turley and David Wilson, my teachers and colleagues at Southern Illinois University, have constantly served as sources of friendship and unfailing support. Jim Hershberg, David Wolff, and Christian Ostermann, who have directed the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars for the past decade, helped me in many waysincluding providing encouragement, offering forums for me to test my ideas, and, together with the staff at the National Security Archive in Washington, D.C., sharing with me newly declassified Cold War documentation. Charles Bailey, David Tamerin, and David Werlich, the three department chairmen with whom I have worked at SUNY-Geneseo and Southern Illinois University, have been most supportive as colleagues and friends. Zhang Shuguang, Michael M. Sheng, and Zhai Qiang, fellow Chinese scholars working on Cold War studies in the United States, as well as Vladislav Zubok, a renowned Russian Cold War scholar who shares a birthday with me, have enhanced my understanding of the Cold War history in many discussions over the years.

I also wish to thank a number of friends, colleagues, and fellow scholars who either have read part of the manuscript during various stages of its making and offered critical comments or have provided support in other valuable ways: William Burr, Warren Cohen, Thomas Christensen, Roger Dingman, John Garver, Leszek Gluchowski, He Di, Michael Hunt, Li Haiwen, Geir Lundestad, Niu Jun, Krzysztof Persak, Shen Zhihua, R. B. Smith, Tao Wenzhao, Marc Trachtenberg, Nancy Berncropf Tucker, Xu Yan, Xue Litai, Yang Kuisong, Marylyn Young, Kathryn Weathersby, and Zhang Baijia. Brian Deason, Hu Shaohua, Li Di, and David Snyder served as my research assistants at Southern Illinois University and the U.S. Institute of Peace and have contributed to the completion of this project.

Earlier versions of several chapters were previously published: Chapter 1 first appeared in Gerhard Krebs and Christian Oberlnder, eds., 1945 in Europe and Asia: Reconsidering the End of World War II and the Change of the World Order (Tokyo and Berlin: Deutsches Institut fr Japanstudien, 1997); Chapter 2 in the winter 1997 issue of Diplomatic History; Chapter 3 (which I coauthored with Yang Kuisong) in Odd Arne Westad, ed., Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 19491963 (The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 1999); and Chapters 5 and 8 in the March 1993 and June 1995 issues of The China Quarterly. They all have been substantially revised and are included in this volume with permission from the original publishers.

Portions of this manuscript have been presented at various lectures, workshops, and conferences at Beijing Capital Normal University; the University of California, Berkeley; the University of California, Santa Barbara; Cambridge University; Colgate University; Columbia University; the University of Connecticut; East China Normal University; Fudan University; Hong Kong University; George Washington University; Guangxi Normal University; the Korean National Defense University; the Institute of Contemporary China in Beijing; the Norwegian Nobel Institute; Oxford University; the University of Southern California; the University of Virginia; the University of Wisconsin, Madison; the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C.; Yale University; Yonsei University; and panels at the annual meetings of the Association for Asian Studies, the American Historical Association, Chinese Historians in the United States, and the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. I have benefited greatly from the comments these presentations elicited.