China\'s Quest. The History of the Foreign Relations of the People\'s Republic of China - John Garver

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798 { Notes to pages 113–127



  1. This is a key argument of Dikötter, Mao’s Famine. Dikötter’s study is based on
    local archives in China, which often contained very frank descriptions of the unfolding
    famine.

  2. The speech and the response by Western communist parties is in The Anti-Stalin
    Campaign and International Communism, New  York:  Columbia University Press,



  3. Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, zhong su guanxi huiyilu, 1956–1966 (Ten-year polem-
    ical war, a memoir of Sino-Soviet relations), Vol. 1, Beijing:  Zhongyang wenxuan chu-
    banshe, 1999, pp. 3–5. The US embassy in Moscow quickly obtained and released a copy
    of the speech. On the Sino-Soviet polemical debates of the 1950s and 1960s, see Donald
    S. Zagoria, The Sino-Soviet Conflict 1956–1961, New York: Atheneum, 1969.

  4. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 2–5. Wu was the CCP’s record keeper on relations with
    the Soviet Union during this period and provides a very detailed account of interactions.

  5. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 23–4.

  6. The Historical Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, Beijing:  Foreign
    Languages Press, 1961, pp. 2, 18–9.

  7. François Fejtő, A History of the People’s Democracies: Eastern Europe since Stalin,
    Middlesex:  Penguin, 1974, p.  105. Documents on the 1956 events in both Poland and
    Hungary are in Paul E. Zinner, National Communism and Popular Revolt in East Europe,
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1956.

  8. Flora Lewis, A Case History of Hope, New York: Doubleday, 1958, pp. 182–5.

  9. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 35–6.

  10. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 39.

  11. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, Vol. 1, pp. 51–7.

  12. Zinner, National Communism, pp. 485–98.

  13. Regarding the formation of the Sino-Albanian entente in 1956–1957, see Daniel
    Tretiak, “The Founding of the Sino-Albanian Entente,” China Quarterly, no. 10
    (April–June 1962), pp. 123–43.

  14. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 60–1.

  15. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 68–73.

  16. In The Historical Experience of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, pp. 32–3, 39.

  17. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 68.

  18. This section follows Yitzhak Shichor, The Middle East in China’s Foreign Policy,
    1949–1979, London: Cambridge University Press, 1979, pp. 60–9.

  19. Shichor, Middle East, pp. 41, 45, 49, and 61.

  20. Shichor, Middle East, p. 49.

  21. Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 93–6.

  22. Dikötter, Mao’s Famine, p. 12.

  23. Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 101–2.

  24. Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers:  The Last Testament, Boston:  Little
    Brown, 1974, pp. 256–7.

  25. Quoted in O. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia:  The Great Game,
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1971, p. 422.

  26. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 118–9.

  27. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 121.

  28. Quoted in Dikötter, Mao’s Famine, p. 13.

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