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

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802 { Notes to pages 158–169



  1. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, pp. 336–7.

  2. Wu, Shinian lunzhan, p. 337.

  3. Zagoria, Sino-Soviet Conflict, p. 3.

  4. Sydney Klein, The Road Divides: Economic Aspects of the Sino-Soviet Dispute, Hong
    Kong: International Studies Group, 1966, pp. 66–7.

  5. Ibid.

  6. O. Edmund Clubb, China and Russia:  The “Great Game,” New  York:  Columbia
    University Press, p. 446.

  7. My Georgia Tech colleague Lu Hanchao has investigated the impact of Mao’s
    casual comments about cuisine on China’s agricultural policy during the same period.
    Hanchao Lu, “The Tastes of Chairman Mao:  The Quotidian as Statecraft in the Great
    Leap Forward and Its Aftermath,” Modern China (2013), pp. 1–34. Available at ht t p://mc x.
    sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/29/0097700413517640.abstract.

  8. Chinese imports from the Soviet Union fell from US$950  million in 1959 to
    US$233 million in 1962, a level far below any year since 1950. Chu-yuan Cheng, Economic
    Relations between Peking and Moscow, 1949–63, New  York:  Praeger, 1964, p.  63. Trade
    between the Soviet Union and China would reach a low point in 1970 before starting to
    recover.


Chapter 7. Reviving Revolutionary Momentum


  1. Frank Dikötter, Mao’s Great Famine, New York: Walker, 2010, p. 118.

  2. This section follows Niu Jun, “1962:  The Eve of the Left Turn in China’s Foreign
    Policy,” Working Paper No. 48, October 2005, Cold War International History Project,
    Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholarship.

  3. A  substantial number of CPSU leaders in the mid-1920s, most notably Nikolai
    Bukharin, favored continuation of the family-farming-oriented New Economic Policy
    for a longer period. Stalin insisted on pushing forward with collectivization against all
    opposition, either within the elite or from the farmers themselves.

  4. Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975, Chapel Hill: North Carolina
    University Press, 2000, pp. 114–5.

  5. Who’s Who in Communist China, Hong Kong:  Union Research Center, 1966,
    pp. 404–6.

  6. Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars.

  7. This account follows Sergey Radchenko, Two Suns in the Heaven, The Sino-Soviet
    Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009, pp. 46–7.

  8. Regarding the August 1962 Tenth Plenum, see Roderick MacFarquhar, The
    Origins of the Cultural Revolution, Vol. 3, The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961–1966,
    New York: Columbia University Press, 1997, pp. 281–5.

  9. Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan, zhong su guanxi huiyilu, 1956–1966 (Ten-year polem-
    ical war, a memoir of Sino-Soviet relations), Vol. 2, Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chuban-
    she, p. 540.

  10. Radchenko, Two Suns, p. 49.

  11. Quoted in Radchenko, Two Suns, pp. 50–1.

  12. Radchenko, Two Suns, pp. 56–64.

  13. This document is available in The Polemic on the General Line of the International
    Communist Movement, Beijing:  Foreign Languages Press, 1965. This collection of

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