Economic Cold War : America's embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949-1963 / Shu Guang Zhang.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-363) and index.

Series Prefaces / James G. Hershberg -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Fostering the China Embargo, 1949-1953 -- 3. Standing Up to Build a New China, September 1949-June 1950 -- 4. Countering the Imperialist Embargo, July 1950-September 1953 -- 5. Holding the Sanctions Line, 1953-1955 -- 6. Fending Off Prolonged Western Sanctions, October 1953-December 1957 -- 7. The Disintegration of Multilateral Sanctions, 1956-1959 -- 8. The Collapse of Sino-Soviet Economic Cooperation, 1957-1960 -- 9. An Inevitable Beijing-Moscow Split and Washington's Response, 1960-1963 -- 10. Conclusion -- App. Statistics on Chinese Trade, 1950-1980.

"Why would one country impose economic sanctions against another in pursuit of foreign policy objectives? How effective is the use of economic weapons in attaining such objectives? Economic Cold War, by Shu Guang Zhang, aims to answer these questions. The author examines how and why the United States and its allies instituted economic sanctions against the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, and how the embargo affected Chinese domestic policy and the Sino-Soviet Alliance.

This study, based on recently declassified documents in the United States, Great Britain, China, and Russia, is unusual in that it looks at both sides of "the China embargo.""--BOOK JACKET.