This collection of declassified National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) is the first such release of analytical products exclusively on China. The editors' aim was to include Estimates that tracked the general trends of China's internal politics, foreign relations, national economy, and the growth of its military establishment. They also sought to cover the drama of the final stages of the Chinese civil war and the establishment of Communist rule in 1949, the new regime's first Five Year Plan of 1953-1957, Mao's principal ideological campaigns -- the Great Leap Forward and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution -- and the Sino-Soviet split. Generally speaking, China is big. | 
