Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2021
Publication Title
H-Diplo Roundtable, XXII-41
Pages
8-9
Abstract
[Introduction] This second volume continues a tradition of productive team work, this time between Danhui Li and Yafeng Xia, who emphasize the central role and importance of China in some of the more significant strategic realignments of international history and the Cold War. The chronological dimensions of the story (1959-1973) take the reader from the Sino-Soviet split to the "quasi-alliance" that developed between the United States and China after President Richard Nixon's trip to China in February 1972 (233). The subsequent entanglement of the American and Chinese economies that developed since that time is the subject of extensive public debate today. The authors remind us that the Soviet Union, or rather reactions to the Soviet Union and frustration with the Soviet Union, was key to this history. Even further, the Soviet impact and "the experience with the Soviet Union" was "Central to the unfolding of the Cultural Revolution" (xiii).
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Original Publication Citation
Jersild, A. (2021). [Review of the Book Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973: A New History, by D. Li & Y. Xia]. H-Diplo Roundtable XXII-41, https://issforum.org/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XXII-41.pdf#page=8
Repository Citation
Jersild, Austin, "[Review of the Book Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959-1973: A New History, by D. Li & Y. Xia]" (2021). History Faculty Publications. 64.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/history_fac_pubs/64
Comments
Dated: 24 May 2021.
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