Date of Award
Fall 12-16-2022
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
First Advisor
Will Burghart
Second Advisor
Mary Hanneman
Third Advisor
Amy Newcomb
Abstract
This paper examines the American diplomatic effort in China in 1944-45 including the attempts at military coordination with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government as well as the "Dixie Mission," which was the first official American contact with the Chinese Communist Party. I argue that the personalities of the American diplomats, the structural issues endemic to the China-Burma-India Theater, the fractured and complex Chinese political situation, and the lack of clear and rational foreign policy on China all culminated in the diplomatic efforts failing. While acknowledging the numerous contributing factors that led to diplomatic failure, this paper also suggests ways in which negotiations could have been more productive.
Recommended Citation
Moody, Sarah, "The Dixie Mission, Patrick J. Hurley, and America's Diplomatic Failure in China, 1944-45" (2022). History Undergraduate Theses. 56.
https://digitalcommons.tacoma.uw.edu/history_theses/56