Mao's China and the Cold War (repost)
Mao's China and the Cold War By Chen Jian
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2000 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0807826170 | PDF | 2 MB
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press 2000 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 0807826170 | PDF | 2 MB
The author, formerly a student in Shanghai and at Southern Illinois University, uses primary sources from Chinese archival materials to provide new information on and analysis of Chinese leader Mao Zedong's behavior during the Cold War. Chen takes further the current literature on Chinese security interests (see Andrew J. Nathan and Robert S. Ross's The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress, LJ 7/97; for Mao's life, see Philip Short's Mao: A Life, LJ 11/15/99, and Ross Terrill's Mao Zedong: A Biography, Stanford Univ., 2000) and presents two important points: First, he argues that Mao made decisions primarily based on his ability to promote "continuous revolution" in China and bolster his own power.