Book Launch: China's Cold War Science Dipolomacy by Gordon Barrett

We will be celebrating the launch of Gordon Barrett's book, China's Cold War Science Diplomacy, published through Cambridge University Press, on Friday 2 November at 15:00 in the Gerry Martin at the Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford.

Tea/coffee/cake will be provided but booking is required

Please register in advance here.

About the book:

During the early decades of the Cold War, the People's Republic of China remained outside much of mainstream international science. Nevertheless, Chinese scientists found alternative channels through which to communicate and interact with counterparts across the world, beyond simple East/West divides. By examining the international activities of elite Chinese scientists, Gordon Barrett demonstrates that these activities were deeply embedded in the Chinese Communist Party's wider efforts to win hearts and minds from the 1940s to the 1970s. Using a wide range of archival material, including declassified documents from China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Barrett provides fresh insights into the relationship between science and foreign relations in the People's Republic of China.