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Jan 01, 2012 westad has tried to summarise the history of modern china after 1950s, in an attempt to show how the context has shaped the modern chinese state. Asia relations at harvard, reassesses conventional frameworks of the cold war and identifies its origins in the late 19th century with the expansion of the united states and russia as transcontinental empires and the sharpening of the ideological divide between capitalism and its critics. Since the cold war ended, it has become an international field of study, with new material from china, the former soviet union and europe. He is the elihu professor of history and global affairs at yale university, where he teaches in the yale history department and in the jackson institute of global affairs. Third world interventions and the making of our times, 2005, etc. Firstly, although the book is roughly chronological, westad has tried to organise the chapters by themes. Westad argues that chinas history over the past two centuries has been unusually turbulent and. According to pdf westad, these changes, plus the ideologies, movements and states that interventionism stirred up, constitute the real legacy of the cold war. A rich history of the past 250 years of chinese foreign policy.
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