{"product_id":"mission-to-mao-sara-b-castro-9781647124519","title":"Mission to Mao: Us Intelligence and the Chinese Communists in World War II","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn innovative history of US intelligence officers on the ground and the first official contacts between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 1941 to 1947, the United States planted a liaison mission in the headquarters of Chinese Communist forces behind the lines. Nicknamed the \"Dixie Mission,\" for its location in \"rebel\" territory, it was an interagency delegation that included intelligence officers from the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMission to Mao\u003c\/i\u003e is a social history of the OSS officers in the field that reveals the weakness of US intelligence diplomacy in the 1940s. Drawing on over 14,000 unpublished records from five archives as well as white papers and memoirs from the participants, Sara B. Castro demonstrates how the OSS officers clashed with political appointees and Washington over the direction of the US relationship with the Chinese Communists. Initially, the OSS officers were sent to gather intelligence that would help the war effort against Japan, but interagency and political conflicts erupted over whether or not the mission would later involve operations with the Communists. Castro shows how potential benefits for the war effort were thwarted by politicization and the OSS officers' own biases and blind spots.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMission to Mao\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh look at US intelligence in WW II China and takes readers beyond the history of \"China hands\" versus American anticommunists, introducing more nuance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara B. Castro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1647124514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781647124519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Georgetown University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Sara B. Castro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44756569784575,"sku":"9781647124519","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b4a4d073-5c12-4f41-bd97-67ed4eab7af4.jpg?v=1706593321","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mission-to-mao-sara-b-castro-9781647124519","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}