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United States relations with China with special reference to the period 1944–1949. Department of State publication no. 3573. Washington, 1949. xli, 1054 p. $3.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Mary C. Wright
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Hoover Library, Stanford
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1950

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References

1 Hsin-hua she-she-lun, Wu-k'o nai-ho ti kung-chuang – p'ing Mei-kuo kuan-yü Chungkuo wen-t'i ti pai-p'i shu.(Hongkong, September, 1949), 38. Translations of two of the eight essays in this volume appeared in The China digest (Hongkong), September 7, 1949.

2 Ibid., 46.

3 Ibid., 45–48.

4 For a summary of the episode, see the Associated Press news item, Washington, August 24, as printed in the San Francisco chronicle (August 25, 1949), 4. For a similar criticism of the While Paper, for which the evidence is not given, see the mimeographed Memorandum on the White Paper on U. S. relations with China, by Senators Pat McCarran, Styles Bridges, Kenneth S. Wherry, and William F. Knowland, mimeographed, n.d. [1949]. 9 p. “New China News Agency analystical refutation of American White Paper,” The China digest (Hongkong), September 7, 1949. Paul M. A. Linebarger, “The failure of secret diplomacy in China,” Far Eastern survey, September 7, 1949. Other criticisms are summarized in Francis Valeo, The China White Paper, Public affairs bulletin no. 77, Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service (Washington, October 1949), 50–53.

5 For a brief account, see L. K. Rosinger, “The White Paper in brief,” Far Eastern survey, September 7, 1949; and Valeo, 5–48.

6 Annex 28 (a), (c), (k), (z).

7 Hsin-hua she-she-lun, 49–58.

8 China no. 5,1870, for example, indicates clearly the way in which a policy based on careful study by career specialists was nearly reversed by the pressure of the Protestant missions and the home chambers of commerce.