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Qiang Zhai. China and the Vietnam Wars 1950–1975. (The New Cold War History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2000. Pp. xii, 304. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

In recent years, there have been several noteworthy developments in the field of Cold War studies. A number of scholars, including Chen Jian, Michael Hunt, and Odd Arne Westad, have advanced our understanding of the genesis and evolution of the foreign policies of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Soviet Union. In a related trend, historians have provided us with fresh international perspectives on the history of the Vietnamese Revolution. Although research on U.S. diplomacy and strategy occupies a central place in the literature on the Vietnam wars, scholars have begun to analyze in greater depth the role of the two Vietnams, China, France, the Soviet Union, South Korea, and the Commonwealth in shaping the history of the conflict in Indochina. Qiang Zhai's survey of Sino-Vietnamese relations makes an important contribution to these historiographical trends. His research is based on original documents from the Jiangsu provincial archive in Nanjing and recently published Chinese primary source materials, memoirs, and diaries. Vietnamese language sources are not used, though the author draws on Chinese documents and secondary accounts to reconstruct Vietnamese actors' actions and intentions. . . .


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