Behind the bamboo curtain: China, Vietnam, and the world beyond Asia

Introduction : the Vietnam War in its international setting / Priscilla Roberts

1. Mao Zedong and the Indochina wars / Yang Kuisong

2. Forging a new relationship : the Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 / Mari Olsen

3. Opportunities lost? : Kennedy, China, and Vietnam / Noam Kochavi

4. French recognition of China and its implications for the Vietnam War / Fredrik Logevall

5. economic and political impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 / Li Xiangqian

6. Informing the enemy : Sino-American "signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 / James G. Hershberg and Chen Jian

7. Beijing's aid to Hanoi and the United States-China confrontations, 1964-1968 / Shu Guang Zhang

8. Sino-Soviet dispute over assistance for Vietnam's anti-American war, 1965-1972 / Li Danhui

9. background to the shift in Chinese policy toward the United States in the late 1960s / Niu Jun

10. Sino-U.S. reconciliation and China's Vietnam policy / Shen Zhihua

11. China and the Cambodian conflict, 1970-1975 / Zhai Qiang

12. Soviet-Chinese-Vietnamese triangle in the 1970s : the view from Moscow / Stephen J. Morris

13. Commentary : a Vietnamese scholar's perspective on the communist big powers and Vietnam / Luu Doan Huynh

14. Le Duan and the break with China / Stein Tonnesson and Christopher E. Goscha

15. Selected conversations of Asian communist leaders on Indochina.