Michael M Sheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 1254028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael M Sheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael M |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheng |
| SIGNATURE | SHENG M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Fateful Ties
Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with by Gordon H. Chang. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. 314 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). This study offers a sweeping overview of America's relations with last 400 years. Uniquely, book's focus on those Americans whose creative imaginations considered what meant for United States (6). Although use of previously unknown archival materials is limited, author's argument is powerful. He contend…
Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia. Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959
The Western world was shocked by two major events in 1949: the Soviets acquired the nuclear bomb and China became a communist country. In February 1950, a formal alliance was formed between the two communist giants, and the Korean War followed shortly thereafter. Communism was at its zenith, while Western liberal democracy was tested by its own panic reaction of McCarthyism. However, the perceived communist “monolith” did not last for long. By th…
Mao’s Role in the Korean Conflict
In October 1950, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was only one year old, and the Beijing regime faced daunting tasks of regime consolidation and economic reconstruction. Thus, the CIA consistently predicted that China would not enter the Korean War, even if the United States crossed the 38th parallel. Acting on the CIA’s prediction, US forces invaded North Korea on October 8, 1950. China proved the CIA’s analysis wrong by sending masses of tr…
Michael Jabara Carley. Silent Conflict
Perspectives on Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens
In this forum, three leading experts on Sino-Soviet relations and Mao Zedong's policy toward the Soviet Union offer their appraisals of Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens, The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967, published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The commentators praise many aspects of Radchenko's book, but Michael Sheng and to a lesser extent Qiang Zhai and Deborah Kaple wonder whether Radchenko has gone too far in …
Mao and China's Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s
This article reexamines the Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954—55 and 1958, and the initial Sino—Soviet conflict, with particular attention to Mao's dominant role in the events. In contrast to previous scholarship, based on newly available sources it finds Mao to have been an erratic dictator who micromanaged China's military and political operations in the Taiwan Strait against the U.S.—Taiwan alliance with neither a long-term strategy nor a short-ter…
Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952)
(2006). Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952): A Revisionist Interpretation. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 56-80
Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952)
Mao, Tibet, and the Korean War
In October 1950 the Chinese leader Mao Zedong embarked on a two-front war. He sent troops to Korea and invaded Tibet at a time when the People's Republic of China was burdened with many domestic problems. The logic behind Mao's risky policy has baffled historians ever since. By drawing on newly available Chinese and Western documents and memoirs, this article explains what happened in October 1950 and why Mao acted as he did. The release of key d…
Mao's Formative Years Revisited
Using newly released archival and published sources, including Mao Zedong's early writings, poems, essays, and reading notes, a novel psychological interpretation is presented of Mao's personality formation during his childhood and adolescence and its impact on his later life and politics. The young Mao experienced intense inner conflict between feelings of insecurity and grandiosity, which manifested itself in his contradictory behavior of rebel…
No Exit? The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Policy toward China 1945-1950 . Zi Zhongyun , Zhang Ciyun, Jia Yanli
Economic Cold War
Mao's Generals Remember Korea
The Korean War
Brothers in Arms
This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China an…
Battling Western Imperialism
Journal Article Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States. By Michael M. Sheng. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x, 255 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-691-01635-6.) Get access David Mayers David Mayers Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568389 Publis…
Battling Western Imperialism
One of the central issues in the study of the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign policy is its relations with Moscow. Was the CCP a Chinese nationalist party antagonistic to an intrusive Soviet Union or was it rather an internationalist party with ideological-political and strategic-military ties to Moscow, faithfully adhering to Marxist-Leninist principles as well as to Stalin's policy advice? For the past two decades a number of historians…
Useful Adversaries
Marxism? Nationalism? or Patriotism
Journal Article Marxism? Nationalism? or Patriotism? Get access Hunt Michael H.. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xiv + 343 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.50. Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 631–636, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00091 Published: 20 Mar…
TheTriumph of Internationalism
The pivotal component of the “lost chance” interpretation is the belief that Mao and his colleagues were Chinese nationalists whose nationalism came into conflict with Stalin's desire to enhance Soviet security at the expense of Chinese interests. Thus, to counterbalance the Soviet menace, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent friendly overtures to the Americans, only to be rebuffed by those in Washington who pursued a single-mind…
Recasting the Imperial Far East
China's Road to the Korean War
The origins of hostility and conflict
Journal Article Di dui yu chong tu de yu lai: Meiguo dui Xin Zhongguo de zheng ce yu Zhong Mei guan xi, 1949–1950 (The origins of hostility and conflict: U.S. policy toward Communist China and Sino-American relations, 1949–1950). By Yinhong Shi. (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 1995. 277 pp. ISBN 7-305-02844-4.) In Chinese Get access Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works b…
The United States, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1950
Research Article| November 01 1994 The United States, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1950: A Reappraisal Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (4): 521–536. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639947 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Chinese Communist Policy Toward the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance' 1948-1950
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Sino-Soviet conflict intensified and at the same time the Sino-American rapprochement was well under way. When the Americans began to search for an answer to the question of 'Why Vietnam', some US foreign relation documents in the later 1940s were released, which indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had made certain friendly overtures toward the United States. Since then, it has become a widely-a…
Chinese Communist Policy Toward the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance' 1948-1950
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Sino-Soviet conflict intensified and at the same time the Sino-American rapprochement was well under way. When the Americans began to search for an answer to the question of 'Why Vietnam', some US foreign relation documents in the later 1940s were released, which indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had made certain friendly overtures toward the United States. Since then, it has become a widely-a…
Perspectives on Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens
In this forum, three leading experts on Sino-Soviet relations and Mao Zedong's policy toward the Soviet Union offer their appraisals of Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens, The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967, published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The commentators praise many aspects of Radchenko's book, but Michael Sheng and to a lesser extent Qiang Zhai and Deborah Kaple wonder whether Radchenko has gone too far in …
Mao and China's Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s
This article reexamines the Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954—55 and 1958, and the initial Sino—Soviet conflict, with particular attention to Mao's dominant role in the events. In contrast to previous scholarship, based on newly available sources it finds Mao to have been an erratic dictator who micromanaged China's military and political operations in the Taiwan Strait against the U.S.—Taiwan alliance with neither a long-term strategy nor a short-ter…
Mao's Formative Years Revisited
Using newly released archival and published sources, including Mao Zedong's early writings, poems, essays, and reading notes, a novel psychological interpretation is presented of Mao's personality formation during his childhood and adolescence and its impact on his later life and politics. The young Mao experienced intense inner conflict between feelings of insecurity and grandiosity, which manifested itself in his contradictory behavior of rebel…
Recasting the Imperial Far East
America's Lost Chance in China? A Reappraisal of Chinese Communist Policy Toward the United States Before 1945
The United States, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1950
Research Article| November 01 1994 The United States, the Chinese Communist Party, and the Soviet Union, 1948-1950: A Reappraisal Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (1994) 63 (4): 521–536. https://doi.org/10.2307/3639947 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn…
Chinese Communist Policy Toward the United States and the Myth of the 'Lost Chance' 1948-1950
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Sino-Soviet conflict intensified and at the same time the Sino-American rapprochement was well under way. When the Americans began to search for an answer to the question of 'Why Vietnam', some US foreign relation documents in the later 1940s were released, which indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had made certain friendly overtures toward the United States. Since then, it has become a widely-a…
Marxism? Nationalism? or Patriotism
Journal Article Marxism? Nationalism? or Patriotism? Get access Hunt Michael H.. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. xiv + 343 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.50. Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1997, Pages 631–636, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-7709.00091 Published: 20 Mar…
TheTriumph of Internationalism
The pivotal component of the “lost chance” interpretation is the belief that Mao and his colleagues were Chinese nationalists whose nationalism came into conflict with Stalin's desire to enhance Soviet security at the expense of Chinese interests. Thus, to counterbalance the Soviet menace, the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sent friendly overtures to the Americans, only to be rebuffed by those in Washington who pursued a single-mind…
Recasting the Imperial Far East
China's Road to the Korean War
The origins of hostility and conflict
Journal Article Di dui yu chong tu de yu lai: Meiguo dui Xin Zhongguo de zheng ce yu Zhong Mei guan xi, 1949–1950 (The origins of hostility and conflict: U.S. policy toward Communist China and Sino-American relations, 1949–1950). By Yinhong Shi. (Nanjing: Nanjing University Press, 1995. 277 pp. ISBN 7-305-02844-4.) In Chinese Get access Michael Sheng Michael Sheng Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri Search for other works b…
Battling Western Imperialism
One of the central issues in the study of the Chinese Communist Party and its foreign policy is its relations with Moscow. Was the CCP a Chinese nationalist party antagonistic to an intrusive Soviet Union or was it rather an internationalist party with ideological-political and strategic-military ties to Moscow, faithfully adhering to Marxist-Leninist principles as well as to Stalin's policy advice? For the past two decades a number of historians…
Useful Adversaries
Battling Western Imperialism
Journal Article Battling Western Imperialism: Mao, Stalin, and the United States. By Michael M. Sheng. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. x, 255 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-691-01635-6.) Get access David Mayers David Mayers Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 4, March 1999, Page 1658, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568389 Publis…
Brothers in Arms
This volume brings together young scholars from China, Russia, the United States, and Europe who, drawing on much newly available documentation, analyze the complicated and often stormy history of the Sino-Soviet relationship from World War II to the 1960s. This volume should be considered a first assessment of massive amounts of new information, providing new insights and many reevaluations of the various aspects of the alliance between China an…
The Korean War
Mao's Generals Remember Korea
Economic Cold War
No Exit? The Origin and Evolution of U.S. Policy toward China 1945-1950 . Zi Zhongyun , Zhang Ciyun, Jia Yanli
Mao's Formative Years Revisited
Using newly released archival and published sources, including Mao Zedong's early writings, poems, essays, and reading notes, a novel psychological interpretation is presented of Mao's personality formation during his childhood and adolescence and its impact on his later life and politics. The young Mao experienced intense inner conflict between feelings of insecurity and grandiosity, which manifested itself in his contradictory behavior of rebel…
Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952)
(2006). Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952): A Revisionist Interpretation. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 56-80
Mao Zedong and the Three-Anti Campaign (November 1951 to April 1952)
Mao, Tibet, and the Korean War
In October 1950 the Chinese leader Mao Zedong embarked on a two-front war. He sent troops to Korea and invaded Tibet at a time when the People's Republic of China was burdened with many domestic problems. The logic behind Mao's risky policy has baffled historians ever since. By drawing on newly available Chinese and Western documents and memoirs, this article explains what happened in October 1950 and why Mao acted as he did. The release of key d…
Mao and China's Relations with the Superpowers in the 1950s
This article reexamines the Taiwan Strait Crises of 1954—55 and 1958, and the initial Sino—Soviet conflict, with particular attention to Mao's dominant role in the events. In contrast to previous scholarship, based on newly available sources it finds Mao to have been an erratic dictator who micromanaged China's military and political operations in the Taiwan Strait against the U.S.—Taiwan alliance with neither a long-term strategy nor a short-ter…
Perspectives on Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens
In this forum, three leading experts on Sino-Soviet relations and Mao Zedong's policy toward the Soviet Union offer their appraisals of Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens, The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967, published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The commentators praise many aspects of Radchenko's book, but Michael Sheng and to a lesser extent Qiang Zhai and Deborah Kaple wonder whether Radchenko has gone too far in …
Mao’s Role in the Korean Conflict
In October 1950, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was only one year old, and the Beijing regime faced daunting tasks of regime consolidation and economic reconstruction. Thus, the CIA consistently predicted that China would not enter the Korean War, even if the United States crossed the 38th parallel. Acting on the CIA’s prediction, US forces invaded North Korea on October 8, 1950. China proved the CIA’s analysis wrong by sending masses of tr…
Michael Jabara Carley. Silent Conflict
Fateful Ties
Fateful Ties: A History of America's Preoccupation with by Gordon H. Chang. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2015. 314 pp. $32.95 US (cloth). This study offers a sweeping overview of America's relations with last 400 years. Uniquely, book's focus on those Americans whose creative imaginations considered what meant for United States (6). Although use of previously unknown archival materials is limited, author's argument is powerful. He contend…
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