China between Peace and War

Mao, Chiang and the Americans, 1945–1947

Victor S.C. Cheng

‘the state of peace appears at times more difficult than the state of war’

George C. Marshall

FRUS, 1946, vol. x: 437

‘I still agreed to enter into the discussion. As I see it, this constitutes a concession’

Zhou Enlai

FRUS, 1946, vol. x: 144

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