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B O O K R E V I E W S China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confronta- tion. By Jian Chen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994; xvi+339 pp. General Douglas M a c A r t h u r w a s right a b o u t the m e a n i n g of C o m m u n i s t China's military intervention in the Korean War, despite his failure to predict Beijing's decision to join the fighting. That is the surprising, b u t unstated, conclusion t h a t emerges from China's Road to the Korean War. Jian Chen con- tends that Chinese "troops h a d laid their t r a p " (p. 212) in North Korea a n d s o u g h t to d r i v e M a c A r t h u r ' s forces off the peninsula. Mao Zedong expected "to w i n a glorious victory" (p. 3) that w o u l d restore China's world status as the "Central Kingdom" (p. 22). Because the t r i u
Journal of American-East Asian Relations – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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