Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2011
The Federal Government is the largest collector and “consumer” of materials from Communist China in the United States. Its post–1949 programs of acquisition and utilization of information from the China mainland grew out of earlier World War II intelligence and radio monitoring operations which covered Communist as well as Nationalist and other affairs.
The author is deputy director of the research project on Men and Politics in Modern China, Columbia University. From 1952 to 1958 he was with the Department of State and prior to that, 1948 to 1952, he was Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Studies at Yale University. He is the author of China Missionaries and American Foreign Policy: The Boxer Period to be published in the Harvard Historical Monographs series.