| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| Ch. I | The Roots of Mao's Pro-Soviet Policy before 1937 | 15 |
| Ch. II | CCP-Moscow Relations during the Anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 | 31 |
| Ch. III | From Enemies to Friends: CCP Policy toward the United States before Pearl Harbor | 57 |
| Ch. IV | Courting the Americans: The CCP's United Front Policy toward the U.S., 1942-1945 | 74 |
| Ch. V | Postwar Alignment: CCP-Moscow versus GMD-Washington in Manchuria, August-December 1945 | 98 |
| Ch. VI | Mao Deals with George Marshall, November 1945-December 1946 | 119 |
| Ch. VII | The CCP and the Cold War in Asia: Mao's "Intermediate-Zone" Theory and the Anti-American United Front, 1946-1947 | 145 |
| Ch. VIII | Mao's Revolutionary Diplomacy and the Cold War in Asia, 1948-1949 | 161 |
| Conclusion | 187 |
| Notes | 197 |
| Select Bibliography | 229 |
| Index | 245 |