A collection of materials documenting China's involvement in all stages of the Korean War. For more coverage of the Korean War on the Digital Archive, see the collections: (1) Korean War Origins, 1945-1950; (2) Korean War, 1950-1953; (3) Korean War Armistice; and (4) Korean War Biological Warfare Allegations.
Drawing on Zhou Enlai's published papers, Charles Kraus outlines the extent of Chinese aid to North Korea in the summer of 1950.
How China did -- and did not -- push Kim Il Sung towards war in the lead up to June 25, 1950.
Shen Zhihua on the significant conflict that existed between the PRC and the DPRK at the highest levels during the Korean War.
Gregg Brazinsky examines North Korea’s wartime propaganda that shaped popular attitudes toward China and the hundreds of thousands of Chinese Peoples’ Volunteers it dispatched to fight in the Korean War.
China's leading historian of the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, explains how Stalin and Mao saw the conflict on the Korean Peninsula and the lasting implications of the war for the Sino-Soviet alliance.
Chen Jian reviews the making of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Sino-Soviet connection with the outbreak of the Korean War, and contacts between China and the Soviet Union during the days when the CCP leadership made the final decision to enter the Korean War.
