Choices at a Crossroads: China in 1956–1957

Choices at the Crossroads: China, 1956–1957 collects nine historical essays by Shen Zhihua on China in 1956 and 1957. Each essay stands on its own, yet all are closely connected in their reasoning. Unlike earlier works on this period, the book analyzes the history of China’s socialist construction alongside the history of the international communist movement, arriving at many new insights.