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HIS 374 / 574
REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN MODERN CHINA


THE "FALL" OF CHINA

BROADCAST DATE: MAY 25, 1950  

(Opening session of a Senatorial Investigation into reasons behind the triumph of Communism in China the previous year)  

TOPIC:   

an evaluation from both the Chinese and the American points of view of the reasons behind and circumstances surrounding the rise of the Chinese Communists to power and the defeat of the Republican forces in China by 1949 

PANELISTS:   

  • CHIANG KAI-SHEK, 

  • PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA
    [JULIE KANE]  
      
  • LI KUEI-YING, FEMALE CHINESE PEASANT 
    [ADDIE WELCH ]


  • ANNA LOUISE STRONG, AMERICAN EX-PATRIOT RESIDING IN CHINA 
    [SHAUNA BAILEY]
     
  • JOSEPH STILWELL, GENERAL OF THE ARMY 
    [LAUREL READINGIER]

  • JOHN STEWART SERVICE, FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER
  •  
    [KENT CAMINO]

      
  • GEORGE MARSHALL, GENERAL, AMBASSADOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE
  •  
    [TARIN RHOADES]


This site has been prepared by Lee A. Makela (l.makela@csuohio.edu) for the use of students at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, who are enrolled in HIS 374 / 574, REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS IN MODERN CHINA during the Fall Semester of the 2004 - 2005 Academic Year; please contact him with any comments.  
last updated: February 18, 2004