China’s Civil War

China’s Civil War

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E6: As war raged on across the globe, China had to contend with a civil war between Mao Zedong’s Communists and Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party. Explore the war from its colonial roots to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China and discover how the USSR and the United States became involved in the bloody conflict.