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New York – YCW NY: Kevin Peraino – “Mao, Truman, and the Birth of Modern China” (Tue, March 20th) with Kevin Peraino [Tuesday, March 20]
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In the opening months of 1949, President Harry S. Truman found himself faced with a looming diplomatic catastrophe—“perhaps the greatest that this country has ever suffered,” as the journalist Walter Lippmann put it. Throughout the spring and summer, Mao Zedong’s