Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1963. By Shu Guang Zhang. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, and Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001. Pp. xvi, 375. $49.50.

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Shu Guang Zhang is a leader among those revealing Chinese perspectives on international affairs, as found in both Chinese-language publications and in hitherto unused archival materials. He and several other China-born scholars working in the United States—most notably Jian Chen, Qiang Zhai, Simei Qing, and Xiaoyuan Liu—have performed an enormous service to analysts all over the world by uncovering, translating, and incorporating into their work these vital documents. For this book Zhang has also used American, British, and Soviet sources, but to less striking effect.