TY - JOUR AU - Hsüeh, Chün-tu AB - BOOK REVIEWS | 349 The author also provides an analysi of s China's negotiations with three of its Asian neighbors ,Burma , Nepal, and Ceylon. While these case studies are significant in formulating hypotheses about China's foreign policy behavior, it should be aske dwhy Lai l did not examine Peking's negotiations with the United State s or the Soviet Union or with India ,Pakista n, Japan, and Indonesia? Certainly the author's choice could not have been motivated by a lack of drama or a lack of informa ­ tion. Indeed, one suspects that the author wanted only to pad his anal ­y sis of the Geneva Conference and this could be accomplished more painlessl by y avoiding the more complex problems of Peking's rela ­ tions with the other major powers of Asia. The book also attempts to provide a broad perspective for interpret ­ ing China's foreign relations through a series of short introductory chapters which investigate the nature of the Chinese presence in inter ­ national negotiations, the backgroun dand training of Chinese negoti ­ ators, and the general approach and attitude of Communist China toward international negotiations. These are important chapters which offer analys es comparable TI - Revolutionary Immortality: Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by Robert Jay Lifton ; Chinese Communism in Crisis: Maoism and the Cultural Revolution, by Jack Gray and Patrick Cavendish JF - Political Science Quarterly DO - 10.2307/2148053 DA - 1971-06-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/revolutionary-immortality-mao-tse-tung-and-the-chinese-cultural-7Napv20kok SP - 349 EP - 351 VL - 86 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -