Mao's Final Legacies and the Sino-Vietnamese War, 1971–79

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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While official Chinese history hails Mao's diplomatic and strategic policy-making in his last five years as successful, Mao's Final Legacies and the Sino–Vietnamese War offers a convincing reassessment: Mao hijacked national security and manipulated ideology to serve his political needs. Following a failed military coup (the Lin Biao Incident) in 1971, Mao crippled the People's Liberation Army and established anti-Soviet, pro–Khmer Rouge policies. The last years of Mao Zedong's life and leadership were filled with high-stakes action and diplomatic manoeuvring.Drawing on previously untapped Chinese archival documents, internal documents, and insiders' memoirs, Chenyi Wang investigates how Mao's policies sowed the seeds for the catastrophic war against Vietnam in 1979. This compelling narrative shows how Mao's preoccupation with power ultimately bequeathed an approach to diplomatic and strategic decision-making that led his successors to failure.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieContemporary Chinese Studies
Antal sidor286
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774872546

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Chenyi Wang is a postdoctoral research fellow in the History Department at East China Normal University and an assistant research fellow in its Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism. He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as an ECNU–Wilson Center Cold War Studies Initiative Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His work has been published in the Journal of Cold War Studies and with the Cold War International History Project.