Topic:

• Chinese decision to enter the Korean War
• Chinese support of oppression of Hungarian Riots in 1956
• Mao Zedong's motives in the Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954-1955 and 1958

Readings:

Jian, Chen. Mao’s  China and the Cold War.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Page 85-204. 119 pages. (Available in Study Materials).