Topic:

• Chinese response to the Western intervention
• Failure of establishment of democratic institutions after 1911 revolution
• China’s defeat by Japan in 1894-1895 and in the  1930's
• Reasons of Mao Zedong to lean to the Soviet Side in 1949

Readings:

Fairbank, John K. China’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective. Foreign Affairs, Vol. 47, April 1969. Page 449-463. 14 pages. (Available in Proquest database).

Jian, Chen. Mao’s  China and the Cold War.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Page 38-84. 46 pages. (Available in Study Materials).