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Notes
Preface
1 This has been known for some time thanks to the work of Alfred L. Chan, Mao’s Crusade: Politics and Policy Implementation in China’s Great Leap Forward, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; see also Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun, China’s Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955–1959, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1999.
2 The most recent village study is Ralph A. Thaxton, Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China: Mao’s Great Leap Forward Famine and the Origins of Righteous Resistance in Da Fo Village, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008; a classic study is Edward Friedman, Paul G. Pickowicz and Mark Selden with Kay Ann Johnson, Chinese Village, Socialist State, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
3 Robert Service, Comrades: A History of World Communism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007, p. 6.
Chapter 1: Two Rivals
1 William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and his Era, London: The Free Press, 2003, p. 230.
2 Pang Xianzhi and Jin Chongji (eds), Mao Zedong zhuan, 1949–1976
(A bio-graphy of Mao Zedong, 1949–1976), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 2003, p. 534.
3 Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao: The Memoirs of Mao’s Personal Physician, New York: Random House, 1994, pp. 182–4.
4 A helpful overview of the Socialist High Tide appears in Chan, Mao’s Crusade, pp. 17–24.
5 Wu Lengxi, Yi Mao zhuxi: Wo qinshen jingli de ruogan zhongda lishi shijian pianduan (Remembering Chairman Mao: Fragments of my personal experience of certain important historical events), Beijing: Xinhua chubanshe, 1995, p. 57.
6 Lorenz M. Lüthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. 71–2.
7 Roderick MacFarquhar, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution, vol. 1: Contradictions among the People, 1956–1957, London: Oxford University Press, 1974, pp. 313–15.
Chapter 2: The Bidding Starts
1 Wu Lengxi, Shinian lunzhan: 1956–1966 Zhong Su guanxi huiyilu (Ten years of theoretical disputes: My recollection of Sino-Soviet relationships), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1999, pp. 205–6; see also Lüthi, Sino-Soviet Split, p. 74.
2 Li, Private Life of Chairman Mao, pp. 220–1.
3 Ibid., p. 221.
4 Mao Zedong, Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao (Mao Zedong’s manuscripts since the founding of the People’s Republic), Beijing: Zhongyang wenxian chubanshe, 1987–96, vol. 6, pp. 625–6.
5 See the reminiscences of one of Mao’s translators, Li Yueran, Waijiao wutai-shang de xin Zhongguo lingxiu (The leaders of new China on the diplomatic scene), Beijing: Waiyu jiaoxue yu yanjiu chubanshe, 1994, p. 137; see also Yan Mingfu, ‘Huiyi liangci Mosike huiyi he Hu Qiaomu’ (Recollecting Hu Qiaomu attending two Moscow conferences), Dangdai Zhongguo shi yanjiu, no. 19 (May 1997), pp. 6–21.
6 Nikita Khrushchev, Vremia, liudi, vlast’, Moscow: Moskovskiye Novosti, 1999, vol. 3, p. 55.
7 Veljko Mićunović, Moscow Diary, New York: Doubleday, 1980, p. 322.
8 Mao, Jianguo yilai, vol. 6, pp. 640–3.
9 Mikhael Kapitsa, Na raznykh parallelakh: Zapiski diplomata, Moscow: Kniga i biznes, 1996, p. 60.
10 Mao, Jianguo yilai, vol. 6, p. 635.
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