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Beijing, China, Chinese communist party, Chinese foreign policy, Cold War History, Kim Jong-un, My Publications, North Korea, North Korea and the Third World, North Korea foreign relations, North Korea-Japan relations, Sino-North Korean relations

“The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948

Adrian Buzo will be publishing a large Routledge Handbook on North Korea  (which I believe is slated to be published in 2021) and asked me to contribute a chapter. I asked my PhD student Yujin Lim to co-author this piece and fortunately she agreed, since she has been working in North Korean materials available in Seoul and recently published an impressive article on the geometry … Continue reading “The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948

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American Foreign Policy, Beijing, Chinese communist party, Cultural Politics, history and memory, U.S.-China Relations

Henry Kissinger “On China,” and at the Opera

The ever-prolix Henry Kissinger has a new book on U.S.-China relations forthcoming, entitled On China.  Advance copies reviewed here by the New York Times; Kissinger is interviewed by NPR here. Since copies of the text will not be available to we mortals on the Northwest for another week or more — even those of us with Japan connections in the form of a Kinokuniya Bookstore … Continue reading Henry Kissinger “On China,” and at the Opera

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Sino-French Relations

New Work on Sino-French Relations in the 1950s

One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in the summer is to travel to archives and research facilities in various countries to seek out new sources which serve as the basis of new articles and manuscripts.  As summer, that lovely season, is apparently coming to an end (how?  with a bang not a whimper),  I  wanted to share the abstract of an … Continue reading New Work on Sino-French Relations in the 1950s

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