About the Author

Barbara Barnouin earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, where she is currently a research fellow at the Asia Center (CRAM). The late Yu Changgen had worked with Zhou Enlai in the Foreign Ministry of China in the 1960s and 1970s. They are the co-authors of Ten Years of Turbulence: The Chinese Cultural Revolution and Chinese Foreign Policy During the Cultural Revolution.