Striving for Peace: The Chongqing Negotiations and the January Ceasefire

This book focuses on the Chongqing Negotiations and the achievement of a January ceasefire. It covers the Chongqing Negotiations: Mao Zedong flies to Chongqing for talks, negotiations begin, tensions flare at the negotiating table, and Mao Zedong returns from Chongqing; Fighting for peace: the Shangdang Campaign supports the negotiations, the Handan Campaign wages a political battle, the Jinpu Railway Campaign achieves a resounding victory, and a second front emerges in the name of peace; The outcome of the negotiations: talks resume and a ceasefire agreement is signed, a three-person committee travels to resolve disputes, the struggle over a ceasefire in the Northeast, and the final collapse of negotiations between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.