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A Misunderstood Friendship : Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976: Revised Edition / Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource : 12 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231200554
  • 9780231553674
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.510519309/045 23
LOC classification:
  • DS740.5.K7 S53 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Refuting a Historical Myth -- CHAPTER I Victory and Expansion of the Revolution in China and North Korea, 1945–1950 -- CHAPTER II Sharp Contradictions Among the Leadership, 1950– 1953 -- CHAPTER III Chinese Economic Aid and Kim’s Juche Idea, 1953– 1956 -- CHAPTER IV Mao’s Policy of Mollification, 1957– 1960 -- CHAPTER V North Korea’s Balancing Act, 1961–1965 -- CHAPTER VI The Lowest Ebb, 1966– 1969 -- CHAPTER VII China’s Last Ally, 1970– 1976 -- Epilogue China and North Korea in the Era of Deng Xiaoping -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence.In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Refuting a Historical Myth -- CHAPTER I Victory and Expansion of the Revolution in China and North Korea, 1945–1950 -- CHAPTER II Sharp Contradictions Among the Leadership, 1950– 1953 -- CHAPTER III Chinese Economic Aid and Kim’s Juche Idea, 1953– 1956 -- CHAPTER IV Mao’s Policy of Mollification, 1957– 1960 -- CHAPTER V North Korea’s Balancing Act, 1961–1965 -- CHAPTER VI The Lowest Ebb, 1966– 1969 -- CHAPTER VII China’s Last Ally, 1970– 1976 -- Epilogue China and North Korea in the Era of Deng Xiaoping -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Today, the People’s Republic of China is North Korea’s only ally on the world stage, a tightly knit relationship that goes back decades. Both countries portray their partnership as one of “brotherly affection” based on shared political ideals—an alliance “as tight as lips to teeth”—even though relations have deteriorated in recent years due to China’s ascendance and North Korea’s intransigence.In A Misunderstood Friendship, leading diplomatic historians Zhihua Shen and Yafeng Xia draw on previously untapped primary source materials revealing tensions and rivalries to offer a unique account of the China–North Korea relationship. They unravel the twists and turns in high-level diplomacy between China and North Korea from the late 1940s to the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. Through unprecedented access to Chinese government documents, Soviet and Eastern European archives, and in-depth interviews with former Chinese diplomats and North Korean defectors, Shen and Xia reveal that the tensions that currently plague the alliance between the two countries have been present from the very beginning of the relationship. They significantly revise existing narratives of the Korean War, China’s postwar aid to North Korea, Kim Il-sung’s ideological and strategic thinking, North Korea’s relations with the Soviet Union, and the importance of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement, among other issues. A Misunderstood Friendship adds new depth to our understanding of one of the most secretive and significant relationships of the Cold War, with increasing relevance to international affairs today.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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