China's Road to the Korean War

By Chen Jian

Book Overview

Why did China enter the Korean War? What made Mao Zedong, only one year after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, decide to assist North Korea in fighting a coalition of nearly all of the Western industrial powers?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231100248
• ISBN13: 9780231100243
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.3"