CHINA AND INNER ASIA

• Published in: The Journal of Asian Studies (pre-1986) Vol. 44; no. 1; p. 152
• Main Author: Shaffer, Lynda N
• Format: Book Review
• Language: English
• Published: Pittsburgh Duke University Press, NC & IL 01.11.1984
• Subjects: Autobiographies; Bolshevism; Chinese languages; Decision making; Military aid; Military history; Political power; Politics; Silence; China; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics > USSR

In East Germany in 1964, after twenty-five years of silence, Otto Braun revealed that he was the mysterious Li De (Li Te), the "blond-haired and blue-eyed Aryan" that Edgar Snow had seen with the Chinese Communists in the summer of 1936. The revelation that he had been the Comintern's...