The China Threat: Memories, Myths, and Realities in the 1950s

FIGURE 1.1 “China? Never Heard of It” which appeared in an Egyptian newspaper, Al-Goumhouria, in 1958.

FIGURE 1.2 Map of China and Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait

FIGURE 2.1 “Preparations for meeting China,” by David Low

FIGURE 4.1 “The Red Piper of Peking,” by David Low

FIGURE 5.1 “Fighting man vs. fighting mad!,” by James T. Berryman

FIGURE 5.2 “Test for the Seventh Fleet,” by Scott Long

FIGURE 6.1 “No man is an island, entire of itself,” by James Dobbins

FIGURE 7.1 “Harmony Boys,” by John Stampone

FIGURE 9.1 “Chinese Firecracker,” by Roy Justus

FIGURE 9.2 “Lonely outpost,” by Ross A. Lewis

FIGURE 10.1 “Oh, that obstacle again,” by Frits Behrendt