Xiaobing Li is Professor of History and Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the executive editor of the Chinese Historical Review and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive and The Cold War in East Asia.

It is the most legendary clash of the Korean War, and yet the voluminous literature on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir has proven woefully deficient in describing the Chinese version of the story - until now. In Attack at Chosin, Xiaobing Li offers us the first glimpse of how the Chinese thought and fought, how they organized themselves, and how they survived that insufferable cold in those terrible mountains of North Korea."" - Hampton Sides, author of On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir - The Greatest Battle of the Korean War""Writings on Chosin have created history, memory, legend, and lore drawn from American and often U.S. Marine Corps frames of reference. Xiaobing Li corrects this one-sided story by presenting Chinese perspectives in his ground-breaking book, Attack at Chosin. This is a must-read for Korean War historians and for anyone wanting to better understand Chinese warmaking.""- David J. Ulbrich, coauthor of Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century

Xiaobing Li is Professor of History and Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the executive editor of the Chinese Historical Review and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive and The Cold War in East Asia.

It is the most legendary clash of the Korean War, and yet the voluminous literature on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir has proven woefully deficient in describing the Chinese version of the story - until now. In Attack at Chosin, Xiaobing Li offers us the first glimpse of how the Chinese thought and fought, how they organized themselves, and how they survived that insufferable cold in those terrible mountains of North Korea."" - Hampton Sides, author of On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir - The Greatest Battle of the Korean War""Writings on Chosin have created history, memory, legend, and lore drawn from American and often U.S. Marine Corps frames of reference. Xiaobing Li corrects this one-sided story by presenting Chinese perspectives in his ground-breaking book, Attack at Chosin. This is a must-read for Korean War historians and for anyone wanting to better understand Chinese warmaking.""- David J. Ulbrich, coauthor of Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century

Xiaobing Li is Professor of History and Director of the Western Pacific Institute at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the executive editor of the Chinese Historical Review and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive and The Cold War in East Asia.

It is the most legendary clash of the Korean War, and yet the voluminous literature on the Battle of Chosin Reservoir has proven woefully deficient in describing the Chinese version of the story - until now. In Attack at Chosin, Xiaobing Li offers us the first glimpse of how the Chinese thought and fought, how they organized themselves, and how they survived that insufferable cold in those terrible mountains of North Korea."" - Hampton Sides, author of On Desperate Ground: The Epic Story of Chosin Reservoir - The Greatest Battle of the Korean War""Writings on Chosin have created history, memory, legend, and lore drawn from American and often U.S. Marine Corps frames of reference. Xiaobing Li corrects this one-sided story by presenting Chinese perspectives in his ground-breaking book, Attack at Chosin. This is a must-read for Korean War historians and for anyone wanting to better understand Chinese warmaking.""- David J. Ulbrich, coauthor of Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the Twenty-First Century