1893-1976
Eastern Europe
(372) documents
1905- 1954
1893- 1976
East Asia
1898- 1969
1879- 1953
1898- 1976
1912- 1994
China
June 27, 1966
Zhou Enlai, Enver Hoxha, and Mehmet Shehu have a detailed conversation about high-level purges in the Chinese Communist Party. Zhou also discusses China's difficult relations with North Korea and the Vietnam War.
May 5, 1966
Mao Zedong, Mehmet Shehu, Hysni Kapo, and others have a conversation, coincidentally, on Marx’s birthday. They discuss Khrushchev’s legacy, the history of the Chinese Communist Party, and the story of Liri Belishova.
October 12, 1950
Mao Zedong has already given orders to halt Chinese troops preparing to cross the Korean border.
October 8, 1950
Mao informs Stalin that the Chinese volunteers could cross into Korea by October 15.
June 21, 1975
This records contains the full transcript of the talks between Mao and Pol Pot (an excerpt was originally published in CWIHP Working Paper #22, '77 Conversations between Chinese and Foreign Leaders on the Wars in Indochina'). Mao Zedong muses on the nature of the struggle between the capitalist and socialist forces within China. He tells Pol Pot not to blindly follow the Chinese model, but adopt Marxist theory to the Cambodian realities.
February 26, 1954
Liu Shaoqi asks for instructions before distributing the outline of Zhou Enlai's speech on Gao Gang to cadres throughout the Communist Party.
February 25, 1954
Mao Zedong reviews a speech by Zhou Enlai on the Gao Gang Affair.
February 28, 1954
Mao Zedong approves Hu Qiaomu and Chen Boda's revisions to Zhou Enlai's speech on the Gao Gang Affair.
May 15, 1949
Shtykov recounts a recent meeting between Kim Il and Mao Zedong.
June 17, 1955
Mao discusses several Chinese reactionary figures, including Hu Feng, Gao Gang and Rao Shushi.
