Beijing… “The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948 6 Jun 202023 Dec 2020 “’The Enemies Made This Possible’: Sino-North Korean relations since 1948” with Yujin Lim, in Adrian Buzo, ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 131-140. Abstract: This chapter is…
My Publications… Writings and Media Work: July 2017 27 Jul 2017 For whatever reason, July has been a particularly active month in the various cockpits where I do my work -- coffee shops, trains rocketing between Leeds and London, my university…
Chinese foreign policy… Poking the Wasp Nest: Shen Zhihua’s Controversial Speech on North Korea 15 Jul 201715 Jul 2017 Why should we care about scholars in China, or the complaints they have toward North Korea? Usually, readers take interest in Chinese scholarly debates because something specific and enticing has…
Sino-North Korean relations… New Essay in The Diplomat 7 Oct 2016 Entitled 'Unraveling China-North Korea Relations,' this 2000-word essay delves into recent bilateral implications of events in Dandong and Tumen, and argues that taking a broader geographical area into account helps…
Chinese foreign policy… Reading and Writing Chinese-North Korean Cold War History 14 Jul 2016 Tian Wuxiong, a Ph.D. candidate in modern history at Peking University, has produced a nicely nuanced view of the withdrawal of the Chinese People’s Volunteers from the North. Tian has a…
Uncategorized Recent Work on Sino-North Korean Relations, History, and Chinese Foreign Policy 14 Oct 201516 Oct 2015 The arbitrarily configured 70th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, and the presence of a high-level Chinese delegation in Pyongyang, created a need for some commentary and context. This post…
North Korea… Kim Jong-un: purges, paranoia, plots and the cancelled trip to Moscow 1 May 2015 After months of public relations flirtation that led the world to believe that Kim Jong-un would be taking his first foreign trip as head of state to Moscow this month,…
history and memory… Succession Politics and Commemorative Culture in North Korea: Seminar Paper at SOAS 5 Nov 2014 On 14 November, I will be delivering the following paper at the SOAS Centre for Korean Studies as part of their seminar series. Succession Politics and Commemorative Culture in North…
Sino-North Korean relations Viewing the DPRK’s 66th Anniversary through a Chinese Lens 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 The realities of daily life in North Korea are, at best, elusive for the outsider to grasp. A lack of personal experiences often interfere. Those of us who have never…
North Korean border region… Abusive Convenience: Chinese-North Korean Relations 27 Jun 2014 In the lengthening aftermath of the Jang Song-taek execution, writers who are fond of metaphors for Chinese-North Korean relations can take heart. The bilateral relationship which had been “like lips…
