{"product_id":"a-decade-in-sino-soviet-diplomacy-the-diaries-of-liu-zerong-1940-49-9789819940844","title":"A Decade in Sino-Soviet Diplomacy: The Diaries of Liu Zerong, 1940-49","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Brophy | Leonella Liu | Chris McDowell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - Asian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book sheds important new light on Sino-Soviet relations and the politics of the Xinjiang region, publishing for the first time the complete diaries of Liu Zerong, who served as diplomat and foreign ministry envoy from 1940-49. In doing so it provides a chronicle of the downfall of Nationalist Party rule in the crucial frontier region of Xinjiang and its incorporation into the People's Republic of China. The diaries are introduced with a biographical study of Liu, and a discussion of China's international position during World War II and the post-war situation in Xinjiang, which at the time was divided between a sphere of GMD control and the Soviet-aligned East Turkistan Republic. Both in the Moscow embassy, and in the Xinjiang provincial administration in �r�mchi, Liu Zerong was Republican China's most senior Russian-speaking representative, whose task it was to engage on a daily basis with his Soviet counterparts. His extensive diaries therefore offer a unique insight into this tense decade of Sino-Soviet diplomacy, and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in fields of Chinese and international history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Palgrave MacMillan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47658175627415,"sku":"9789819940844","price":23402.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789819940844.webp?v=1775817548","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-decade-in-sino-soviet-diplomacy-the-diaries-of-liu-zerong-1940-49-9789819940844","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}