CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
Acronyms xv- The Fateful Embrace of Communism and Its Consequence 1
ACT I } Forging a Revolutionary State
- Joining the Socialist Camp 29
- War in Korea and Indochina 59
- The Bandung Era 92
- The Sino-Soviet Schism: The Race to Communism and Great
Power Status 113 - Sino-Indian Conflict and the Sino-Soviet Alliance 146
- Reviving Revolutionary Momentum, 1962–1965 163
- Revolutionary China’s Quest to Transform Southeast Asia 196
- Countering the United States in Vietnam: Proxy War
with the United States 232 - The Cultural Revolution, 1966–1969 259
- Rapprochement with the United States 286
- Countering Soviet Encirclement and Trying to Preserve Mao’s Legacy 315
ACT II } The Happy Interregnum, 1978–
- Opening to the Outside World 349
- China’s Pedagogic War with Vietnam 383
- The Strategic Triangle and the Four Modernizations 401
- Normalization with the Asian Powers: Soviet Union, India, Iran,
and Japan 428
ACT III } The Leninist State Besieged; Socialism in One Country
- 1989: The CCP’s Near Escape and Its Aftermath 463
- The Diplomacy of Damage Control 485
- The Crisis Deepens: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe
and the USSR 505 - Constraining Unipolarity in an Unbalanced International System 528
- China and America in the Persian Gulf 557