Based on more than twenty years of research on the subject, Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History offers a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance from the end of the World War II through 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and domestic policies.
Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on international documentation, a wealth of Chinese archival materials, and oral history interviews to reevaluate the history of one of the twentieth-century's most important bilateral relationships.
Written by two preeminent experts of China's Cold War, Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945-1959: A New History is the first book published in English to examine the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance from a Chinese perspective.
Zhihua Shen is distinguished university professor of history and director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. The author of more than 10 books and 90 articles on the Korean War and Sino-Soviet relations (in Chinese, Russian and English), he is the preeminent scholar of the Cold War in China. His most recent English language books include: Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s (2012); After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War (2011) with Danhui Li. He is a former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar
Yafeng Xia is Professor of History at Long Island University in New York and Guest Professor at East China Normal University in Shanghai. A former Wilson Center Fellow and Public Policy Scholar, he is the author of Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War, 1949-72 (2006). He has also published many articles on Cold War history.
