What was there about the system of military-political control in the Chinese Communist Forces that could produce such excellent soldiers in the face of what seemed to be such widespread dissatisfaction? Why was the sociopolitical behavior of Korean and Chinese prisoners so strikingly unusual? To answer these questions, the United States Army early in 1953 commissioned an interdisciplinary research team-sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, political scientists-to undertake studies of the Chinese and the Korean prisoners-or-war who were then in the custody of hte United Nations Forces.. -- Jacket front flap.

Determinants of loyalty and disaffection in Chinese communist soldiers during the Korean hostilities /William C. Bradbury & Jeane J. Kirkpatrick -- The role of traditional orientations toward social relations in Chinese responses to communist military-political control / Samuel M. Meyers -- Wang Tsun-Ming, anti-communist : an autobiographical account of Chinese communist thought reform -- Adjustment of Chinese soldiers to the communist demand for ideological participation / Jeane J. Kirkpatrick and Pio D. Uliassi -- The political behavior of Korean and Chinese prisoners of war in the Korean conflict : a historical analysis / Samuel M. Meyers and William C. Bradbury.