Sino-Soviet Romances
Journal: Asian perspective
Year: 2018

Sino-Soviet Romances Walter C. Clemens Jr. (bio) Elizabeth McGuire, Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Forget about ideology. Forget about geopolitics and nationalism. Forget Confucianism. Taoism, Marxism, and Leninism. Despite its title, this book is not about “red at heart.” It focuses on individuals—Russians and Chinese, teenagers as well as twenty-somethings—who fell in love with each other in a foreign lan