Contents: 1. The Earliest Onslaught -- 2. Years of the Terror -- 3. Chinese Youth Resists -- 4. Chinese Laity Resists -- 5. Chinese Laity Grows in Grace -- 6. Chinese Priests Go Underground -- 7. The "Independent Catholic Church" -- 8. The Suffering Sisters of China -- 9. Nuns as "Murderers" -- 10. The Crime of Being An American -- 11. 3,000 Witnesses against the Reds -- 12. The Meaning of "House Arrest" -- 13. Inside Chinese Prisons -- 14. Across the Border -- 15. The Woman the Reds Hate the Most -- 16. And for the Future-? -- Index

Contents: Political ferment in China, 1911-1951 / Earl H. Pritchard -- The Hegemony of the Chinese Communists, 1945-1950 / George E. Taylor -- The Influence of Leninism-Stalinism on China / Karl A. Wittfogel -- The United front in the new China / Allan B. Cole -- Structure and constitutional basis of the Chinese People's Republic / S. B. Thomas -- The Role of the Chinese Communist Party / H. Arthur Steiner -- The Chinese Communist elite / Robert C. North -- Mass political organizations in Communist China / A. Doak Barnett -- Peasant organization in rural China / G. William Skinner -- Economic principles and state organization / Douglas S. Paauw -- Current agrarian reform policies in Communist China / Chao Kuo-chün -- Labor policy and factory management in Communist China / William Ayers -- Education and propaganda in Communist China / Theodore Hsi-En Chen -- National and minority policies / John De Francis -- Chinese Communist strategy in foreign relations / O. Edmund Clubb -- The Pattern of Sino-Soviet treaties, 1945-1950 / William B. Ballis -- Outside pressures on China, 1945-1950 / Paul M. A. Linebarger -- Shanghai during the takeover, 1949 / Randall Gould -- Hong Kong and the British position in China / E. Stuart Kirby -- Overseas Chinese and Communist policy / Claude A. Buss -- Nationalist Government policies, 1949-1951 / Gung-hsing Wang -- How we learn about Communist China / Mary C. Wright.