Based on Chinese archival documents, interviews, and more than twenty years of research on the subject, Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia offer a comprehensive look at the Sino-Soviet alliance between the end of the World War II and 1959, when the alliance was left in disarray as a result of foreign and domestic policies. This book is a reevaluation of the history of this alliance and is the first book published in English to examine it from a Chinese perspective.

Zhihua Shen is professor of history and director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University.

Yafeng Xia is professor of history at Long Island University, Brooklyn.