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...Columbia professor could not respond to a student's question about the most prominent purge victim of the Cultural Revolution, the student found the answer and tacked up a card on the bulletin board: "Notice! Liu Shao-chi first attacked by name at a rally in Inner Mongolia by a tobacco factory worker on Sept...
Since Mao Tse-tung established the People's Republic in 1949, Maxwell maintains, China has striven not to expand but to legitimize its borders. With barely a quibble, Peking negotiated border agreements accepting the postwar status quo with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Mongolia and Burma. The author believes that the Chinese were ready to settle the fuzzy frontier between India and Tibet in roughly the same way. But Nehru was supersensitive to charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border...
...then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall of the Manchu empire...
What remains uncertain is what Peking really wants for the estimated $1.5 billion a year (around 2% of China's gross national product) that it spends on missiles and warheads. Pads for testing medium-and intermediate-range missiles have been built at Huhehot, the capital city of Inner Mongolia, and at a new site in the mountains of Manchuria's Kirin Province, from which IRBMs can be fired over a 2,000-mile range to barren Sinkiang Province. But there are no signs that China is even ready to test a full-blown intercontinental ballistic missile, which would...
...thaw occurred about 15,000 years ago when the Ice Age came to a close. South of the Arctic Circle, evergreens spread from Finland to the Bering Sea. A great network of rivers, including the Don, began flowing quietly and otherwise; the steppe rolled out from the Carpathians to Mongolia; the semi-deserts of Central Asia pillowed to the south. Into this immensity came Goths, Slavs, Vikings and Tatars, mixing their blood on battlefields and in bedrooms. The text is necessarily simplified, but clear and cool. More than 400 excellent illustrations...