Inside China's Cold War

The Cold War International History Project just released the CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 - Inside China's Cold War. Bulletin 16 includes documentary evidence on China's cold war from the archives in Beijing, as well as documents on Albania, the Soviet Union, the US, North Korea, and the Middle East. You may download your copy here.

CWIHP is proud to announce the online publication of the latest edition of the CWIHP Bulletin, No. 16 (Spring 2008), Inside China's Cold War.

Download the full Bulletin here (544 pages, 9.3MB)

Contents Include:

Editor's Introduction - Download .pdf
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-Archival Thaw in China, by Christian F. Ostermann
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The Geneva Conference of 1954 – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 1 - Download .pdf
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-The Geneva Conference of 1954. New Evidence from the Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China. Introduction by Chen Jian and Shen Zhihua
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-The Declassification of Chinese Foreign Ministry Archival Documents. A Brief Introduction, by Zhang Sulin
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-Russian Documents on the 1954 Geneva Conference. Introduction by Paul Wingrove
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New Evidence on Chinese-Soviet Relations – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 2 - Download .pdf
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-To the Summit via Proxy-Summits: New Evidence from Soviet and Chinese Archives on Mao's Long March to Moscow, 1949, by Sergey Radchenko and David Wolff

New Evidence on Sino-Albanian Relations – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 3 - Download .pdf
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-"Albania is not Cuba." Sino-Albanian Summits and the Sino-Soviet Split. Edited, annotated and introduced by Ana Lalaj, Christian F. Ostermann, and Ryan Gage

New Evidence on Chinese Policies in the Cold War – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 4 - Download .pdf
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-New Documents on Mongolia and the Cold War. Translation and Introduction by Sergey Radchenko
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-Twenty-Four Soviet-Bloc Documents on Vietnam and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1964–1966. Annotation and Introduction by Lorenz M. Luthi
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-Romania and the Sino-American Rapprochement, 1969–1971: New Evidence from the Bucharest Archives, by Mircea Munteanu
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-The History of North Korean Attitudes toward Nuclear Weapons and Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Capability, by Balasz Szalontai (excerpt from CWIHP e-Dossier No. 14)

New Evidence on North Korea – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 5 - Download .pdf
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-New Evidence on North Korea in 1956. Introduction by James F. Person
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-Pyeongyang in 1956, by Nobuo Shimotomai

Research Notes – CWIHP Bulletin No. 16 – Part 6 - Download .pdf
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-Conference Report: From Helsinki to Gorbachev, 1975-1985: The Globalization of the Bipolar Confrontation, Villa Medicea "La Ferdinanda" (Artimino, Italy) 27-29 April 2006, by Duccio Basosi, Matteo Gerlini, and Angela Romano
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-The 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War: A CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference
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-History through Documents and Memory: Report on a CWIHP Critical Oral History Conference on the Congo Crisis, 1960-1961, by Lise Namikas
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-CWIHP Launches New Middle East Initiative, by Mircea Munteanu

Download the full Bulletin here (544 pages, 9.3MB)

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