Capsule Review Spring 1981 Issue

Uncertain Years: Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950

Edited by Dorothy Borg and Waldo Heinrichs
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith

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Uncertain Years: Chinese-American Relations, 1947-1950

Edited by Dorothy Borg and Waldo Heinrichs
Columbia University Press, 1980
332 pp. $17.50
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Excellent papers by nine American scholars on U.S. foreign policy a modern China. The most provocative is Warren Cohen's essay arguing that before the Korean War Secretary of State Dean Acheson was unequivocally aiming at establishing friendly relations with Beijing.