{"product_id":"behind-the-bamboo-curtain-9780804755023","title":"Behind the Bamboo Curtain","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on archival research in many countries, this volume broadens the context of the US intervention in Vietnam. It focuses on relations between China and Vietnam in the mid-twentieth century; and also deals with China's relations with Cambodia, US dealings with both China and Vietnam, French attitudes toward Vietnam and China, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A model anthology, these cross-referenced essays find unity in substantiation of the editor's conclusion that during the Vietnam Was, ideology 'could not trump differences in political culture and style' or divergent national interests between Communist allies, as disagreement and discord raged behind the Bamboo Curtain.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePacific Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is certainly long-awaited and should refine, deepen, and change our understanding of the Vietnam War... All the chapters are well-written, cutting-edge and worth reading.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe China Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This addition to the growing literature of the Vietnam War is long overdue.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This volume marks the first time that top Chinese scholars have joined with leading U.S. and European scholars on this topic. Because of this important work, a number of issues surrounding the U.S. war in Vietnam will need to be reconsidered.\" -- Odd Arne Westad, Professor of International History and Director of the Cold War Studies Centre * London School of Economics *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBehind the Bamboo Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e is an important collection of essays on Sino-Vietnamese relations during the Cold War An excellent contribution from a Vietnamese historian and well-documented chapters on Soviet and French policy further augment the importance of the volume. The contributors make extensive use of primary documents from the United States, the People's Republic of China, Vietnam, and Russia and offer authoritative analyses.\" -- \u003ci\u003eThe Journal of Cold War Studies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBehind the Bamboo Curtain\u003c\/i\u003e is a decidedly international effort. It began life as a conference organized jointly by the University of Hong Kong and the Cold War International History PRoject in Washington, DC and was subsequently transformed, through the rare skill of the editor, PRicilla Roberts, into a coherent volume addressing the complex interactions among China, Vietnam, the Soviet Union, France, and the United States form the early 1950s to 1975.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCold War History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Preface, by James G. Hershberg  Acknowledgments  List of Abbreviations  Introduction: The Vietnam War in Its International Setting  Priscilla Roberts  Part I The Beginning: From Colonial Rule to Escalation  1\tMao Zedong and the Indochina Wars  \tYang Kuisong  2\tForging a New Relationship: The Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955  Mari Olsen  3\tOpportunities Lost? Kennedy, China, and Vietnam  Noam Kochavi  4\tThe French Recognition of China and Its Implications for the Vietnam War  Fredrik Logevall  5\tThe Economic and Political Impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964  Li Xiangqian  Part II The Widening War  6\tInforming the Enemy: Sino-American 'Signaling' and the Vietnam War, 1965  James G. Hershberg and Chen Jian  7\tBeijing's Aid to Hanoi and the United States'China Confrontations, 1964'1968  Shu Guang Zhang  8\tThe Sino-Soviet Soviet Dispute over Assistance to Vietnam's Anti-American War, 1965'  1972  Li Danhui  9\tThe Background to the Shift in Chinese Policy toward the United States in the Late 1960s  Niu Jun  10\tSino-U.S. Reconciliation and China's Vietnam Policy  Shen Zhihua  11\tChina and the Cambodian Conflict, 1970'1975  Zhai Qiang  12\tThe Soviet'Vietnamese'Chinese Triangle in the 1970s: The View from Moscow  Stephen Morris  13\tCommentary: A Vietnamese Scholar's Perspective on the Communist Big Powers  and Vietnam  Luu Doan Huynh  Part III Documents  14\tLe Duan and the Break with China  Stein Tonnesson and Christopher E. Goscha  15\tSelected Conversations of Asian Communist Leaders on Indochina  About the Contributors   Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405567107415,"sku":"9780804755023","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804755023.jpg?v=1730492860","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/behind-the-bamboo-curtain-9780804755023","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}