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Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for Contemporary Chinese and Soviet Studies of the University of Washington and held at the Battelle Research Center, Seattle, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1980.

Eugene Sledge chronicles the experiences he had while serving as a young marine in the First Division during the battle of the Pacific.

After he and his team refurbish America's aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific.

Describes the cultural achievements and folk art of China's 4000-year-old civilization.

Traces the earliest contacts between the United States and China from the years following the American Revolution until the advent of the steamship.

Presents a history of the nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion in China, looking at how it began in the provinces with the ethnic anger of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers and the direction the civil war took after Britain and the United States stepped into support the Manchus.