The China Tangle Author:Herbert Feis This is an attempt to tell what the American government tried to do in and with China during World War II and the critical period of peace-making. The opening part is concerned with the grim effort to sustain Chinese resistance, marking the decisions and strains which influenced later events in ways not clearly foreseen. — From this theater of wa... more »r, the story broadens out in the determination of China's future place in the Pacific, the connect between the Chinese government and the Chinese Communists, and the worried American diplomatic exertions at Moscow, Cairo, Teheran, Yalta, Potsdam, and beyond to carry to carry out the concept of the United Nations in the Pacific. This regrettably marks a tale of crumpled hopes and plans that went awry.« less