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Asian Studies: China
Records of the U.S. Information Service
in China: Chinese Press Reviews and
Summaries, 1944-1950
Source
Library of Congress
Period
1944-1950
Content
37,418 images
Product Number
16153439
Product Code
GDSC-166
This collection of essential U.S. Information Service collections on theCivil War period provides
a unique opportunity to understand immediate post-WorldWar II Chinese history, comparative
revolution, and early Cold War history. This combination of smaller press collections weave
together the strands ofmilitary, social, political, and freeworld history and includes an analysis
of how the Chinese Communist Party achieved victory in the Chinese civil war of 1946-1950.
Records of U.S. State Department’s
Division of Chinese Affairs
Source
National Archives (U.S.)
Period
1944-1961
Content
19,749 images
Product Number
16212152
Product Code
GDSC-195
This collection consists of inter and intradepartmental memoranda, reports, position papers,
summaries, maps, photographs, and despatches relating to the internal political affairs of
China and US foreign policy toward China. Materials in this collection focusmainly onmilitary
and political aspects of the Chinese civil war and US intervention in that conflict. Records
include background material on US efforts to negotiate a settlement between the Chinese
Nationalists and Communists, Sino-Soviet relations, US military operations in China, the
activities of Chinese officials, US financial assistance to the Nationalists, and the question of
recognition of Chinese Communist regime.