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Mao's China and the Cold War. By Chen Jian. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8078-4932-4. Maps. Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Sources. Index. Pp. x, 400. $19.95.
During the last fifteen years, scholarship on the foreign relations of the People's Republic of China (PRC) has benefited greatly from the increasing availability of source materials in China. In his excellent study of Mao's foreign policy, Chen Jian builds on that recent work to offer a stimulating and provocative analysis of key moments in the development of China's foreign relations. Dividing his work into nine topical chapters, Chen begins with the emergence of Communist foreign policy in the aftermath of World War II and concludes with Mao's rapprochement with the United States...