| List of Figures and Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Note on Translation and Romanization | |
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Grand Strategy, National Political Power, and Two-Level Foreign Policy Analysis | 11 |
| Ch. 3 | Moderate Strategies and Crusading Rhetoric: Truman Mobilizes for a Bipolar World | 32 |
| Ch. 4 | Absent at the Creation: Acheson's Decision to Forgo Relations with the Chinese Communists | 77 |
| Ch. 5 | The Real Lost Chance in China: Nonrecognition, Taiwan, and the Disaster at the Yalu | 138 |
| Ch. 6 | Continuing Conflict over Taiwan: Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the 1958 Quemoy Crisis | 194 |
| Ch. 7 | Conclusion | 242 |
| App. A | American Public Opinion Polls, 1947-1950 | 263 |
| App. B | Mao's Korean War Telegrams | 271 |
| Bibliography | 277 |
| Index | 305 |
