| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Jian Chen. Mao's China and the Cold War. (The New Cold War History.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2001. Pp. x, 400. Cloth $49.95, paper $19.95.

As the 2002 elections for the Sixteenth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) bring forth a new generation of Chinese leaders, China watchers are anticipating the further development of China's political and economic role in the global community. Jian Chen's book outlines the historical context from which China is emerging as a world leader. Based on a rich variety of primary and secondary sources, many newly available from Chinese national and regional archives, Chen's study offers new and provocative interpretations of China's Cold War experience. 1

Using a "domestic-politics-centered approach" (p. 49), Chen analyzes the role of Chairman Mao Zedong in major Cold War events such as the Korean War, the Indochina wars, the end of the Sino-Soviet alliance, the Taiwan Straits crises, and revolutions in Eastern Europe. His conclusion that "China's external behavior has been primarily shaped by domestic concerns—both under Mao and continuously in the post-Mao era" (p. 279) potentially offers a way to predict the behavior of China's new leaders. Chen is optimistic about China's future now that both the Cold War and "Mao's revolutionary enterprise" (p. 277) are finished. . . .

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