China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan 1949-1979

<p>During the period 1949 to 1979 communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However this book based on extensive original research demonstrates that China was highly dependent on Western/Japanese grain imports. The text shows that groups lobbying on behalf of Western/Japanese grain producers and related industries had successfully found ways of by-passing the embargo. This book charts the complicated picture of how economic relations between China the West and Japan developed in these years.</p>