 | A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino–North Korean Relations, 1949–1976 ShenZhihua: Zhihua Shen is the director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China. His main works, in Chinese, include Thinking and Selecting: A History of the People's Republic of China, Vol. 3, 1956-1957 (2008), Soviet Experts in China (2003), and Mao Zedong, Stalin and the Korean War (1998). He is also the editor-in-chief of A Collection of Historical Documents of the Soviet Union (2002), which comprises 34 volumes, published in Chinese.XiaYafeng: Yafeng Xia (PhD, UM College Park) is Professor of History at Long Island University, Brooklyn. His publications include Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949-1972 (Indiana, 2006).Zhihua Shen is the director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University, Shanghai. The author of a number of major Chinese-language works on Cold War history, he is also the coauthor, with Yafeng Xia, of Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945‒1959: A New History (2015) and coauthor, with Danhui Li, of After Leaning to One Side: China and Its Allies in the Cold War (2011). |
