John Sexton has translated many Russian and Chinese texts on the history of Communism. His publications include Contemporary China on Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, Alliance of Adversaries, on the early Comintern's often troubled pacts with nationalist and anti-imperialist parties, and a forthcoming volume of translations of the political writings of Zheng Chaolin, a revolutionary socialist who was jailed by Mao for 27 years.