Richard Bernstein has been a reporter, culture critic and commentator for more than 30 years. He was a foreign correspondent in Asia and Europe for Time magazine and The New York Times, and was the first Beijing bureau chief for Time. He is the author of many books on Chinese and Asian themes, among them THE COMING CONFLICT WITH CHINA and ULTIMATE JOURNEY, the latter of which was a New York Times Best Book of the Year. He is also the author of OUT OF THE BLUE: A Narrative of September 11, 2001, which was named by The Boston Globe as one of the seven best books of 2002. He lives in New York.

Books by Richard Bernstein

China 1945: Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice

by Richard Bernstein - History, Nonfiction

As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels --- their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which American money and technology would help lift China out of poverty. Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries, vowing to them his intention of establishing an American-style democracy in China. By year’s end, however, cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust.