Introduction: history, ideology, and identity 1. The Chinese Civil War and European Cold War, 1945–9 2. The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the Korean War, 1950–3 3. Peaceful coexistence and assertive nationalism, 1954–7 4. Ideological radicalization and the Sino-Soviet split, 1958–64 5. The Vietnam War and Cultural Revolution diplomacy, 1965–8 6. Sino-Soviet Border War and Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969–72 7. Mao’s last diplomatic struggle and anti-hegemony, 1972–8 8. Post-Mao economic reform and independent foreign policy, 1979–89 9. Post-Cold War challenges and multilateral diplomacy, 1990s 10. The rise of China and globalization, 2000s 11. Xi Jinping’s China and the New Cold War Conclusion
Biography
Chi-kwan Mark is Senior Lecturer in International History at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Hong Kong and the Cold War: Anglo-American Relations, 1949–1957 (2004), The Everyday Cold War: Britain and China, 1950–1972 (2017), and Decolonisation in the Age of Globalisation: Britain, China and Hong Kong, 1979–89 (2023).






