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Frontmatter --Acknowledgments --Contents --Illustrations --Introduction --PART I. FOREIGN REPORTING ON THE CHINESE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT, 1927-1936 --PART II. FIRSTHAND ENCOUNTERS WITH THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS, 1936-1945 --PART III. IMAGE AND REALITY: THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS IN WESTERN LITERATURE --PART IV. PERSUADING ENCOUNTER --Bibliography --Index

Those who hold the "Mandate of Heaven" to rule must maintain "face"—and Chiang Kai-shek's regime found criticism by American correspondents dangerous indeed in 1941–45.

Much nonsense has been written about the "agrarian reformer" myth. A retired American diplomat maintains that the agrarian reformer slogan was a clever artifice devised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to mask its intentions and affiliations. Allen Dulles, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has gone a step further. He contends that One of the most successful long-range political deceptions of the Communists convinced gullible people in the West before and during World War II that the Chinese people's movement was not Communistic, but a social and "agrarian" reform movement. This fiction was planted through Communist-influenced journalists in the Far East and penetrated organisations in the West.