Book Review on Asia's Revolutionaries of the 20th Century

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Walter Russell Mead, A Century of Revolution. Most Americans know little about modern Asian history. That's too bad—yesterday’s upheavals are likely to be tomorrow's, too. Wall Street Journal, Jan 13, 2021
https://www.wsj.com/articles/und ... olution-11610495149
https://www.hudson.org/research/ ... ntury-of-revolution
(book review on Tim Harper, Underground Asia; Global revolutionaries and the assault on empire. Belknap/ Harvard University Press, Jan 12, 2021)

a paragraph:

" 'Underground Asia' also helps readers understand the complex relationship between communism and nationalism in the East. In European history, the two were usually rivals. In Asian history their relationship has been more complex. At 15, Chiang Kai-Shek's son Chiang Ching-kuo was a classmate of Deng Xiaoping at a Comintern-sponsored military academy for Chinese students in Moscow. When word came two years later that the elder Chiang had purged his former Communist allies back home in China, the younger Chiang wisely issued a statement: 'Chiang Kai-Shek was my father and my revolutionary friend. He has now become my enemy.' Stalin ultimately sent him home and Chiang Ching-kuo would live to rule Taiwan while his classmate Deng ruled across the straits in Beijing.

My comment:
(a)
(i) WSJ allows a nonsubscriber to read half of the review.
(ii) Regarding the subtitle of the book, the book review did not mention "empire" (note the subgular), so I am clueless about what that was.
(iii) Belknap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belknap (may refer to "Belknap Press, an imprint owned by Harvard University Press")

In publication world, an imprint is similar to a brand. A company may sell products under several brands, sometimes aiming different segments of a society.
(b)
(i) Taiwanese, I bet, do not know that Deng went to Russia (Moscow?) to study (France, yes), much less Deng and the younger Chiang were classmates.
(ii) There is no need to read the rest of the review.