Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. List of Abbreviations xviii
6. Introduction: The Vietnam War in Its International Setting 1
7. 1 Mao Zedong and the Indochina Wars 55
8. 2 Forging a New Relationship: The Soviet Union and Vietnam, 1955 97
9. 3 Opportunities Lost? Kennedy, China, and Vietnam 127
10. 4 The French Recognition of China and Its Implications for the Vietnam War 153
11. 5 The Economic and Political Impact of the Vietnam War on China in 1964 173
12. Part II The Widening War
13. 6 Informing the Enemy: Sino-American "Signaling" and the Vietnam War, 1965 193
14. 7 Beijing' s Aid to Hanoi and the United States-China Confrontations, 1964-1968 259
15. 8 The Sino-Soviet Dispute over Assistance for Vietnam's Anti-American War, 1965-1972 289
16. 9 The Background to the Shift in Chinese Policy toward the United States in the Late 1960s 319
17. 10 Sino-U.S. Reconciliation and China's Vietnam Policy 349
18. 11 China and the Cambodian Conflict, 1970-1975 369
19. 12 The Soviet-Chinese- Vietnamese Triangle in the 1970s: The View from Moscow 405
20. 13 Commentary: A Vietnamese Scholar's Perspective on the Communist Big Powers and Vietnam 433
21. 14 Le Duan and the Break with China 453
22. 15 Selected Conversations of Asian Communist Leaders on Indochina 487
23. About the Contributors 535
24. Index 541