| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963. By Shu Guang Zhang. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xvi, 375 pp. $49.50, ISBN 0-8047-3930-7.)

This is a fine book, rich in new materials from recently accessible Chinese archives and memoirs and United States government documents. I recommend it to scholars of the Cold War, particularly the Sino-Soviet dispute and U.S.-China relations, and to comparativists interested in the efficacy of sanctions, alliance politics, and bureaucratic politics. The volume is most appropriate for graduate-level courses and will be of interest to historians, political scientists, and international relations specialists. 1

Economic Cold War tells in clear, alternating, and interactive chapters how the United States and its allies, and Beijing and its principal ally, Moscow, reacted to Western attempts greatly to curtail economic relations with mainland China in the early stages of the Cold War (1949-1963). Beyond providing new detail of the intricacies of each nation's policies, their implementation, and their effects in China, Shu Guang Zhang self-consciously speaks to several important comparative issues. . . .

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