This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BA in History, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT. Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6 of the MT and the LT.
One formative source analysis in the MT; one formative essay, 2000-2500 words, in the LT.
Secondary Sources Brazinsky, Gregg A. Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Chen, Jian. Mao?s China and the Cold War. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. Fravel, M. Taylor. Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China?s Territorial Disputes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Friedman, Jeremy. Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Garver, John W. China?s Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People?s Republic of China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Hunt, Michael H. The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. L?thi, Lorenz M. The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. Niu, Jun. From Yan?an to the World: The Origin and Development of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy. Translated by Steven I. Levine. Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2003. Khan, Sulmaan Wasif. Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China?s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Radchenko, Sergey. Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. Shen, Zhihua, and Yafeng Xia. A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Westad, Odd Arne. Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750. New York: Basic Books, 2015. Zhai, Qiang. China and the Vietnam Wars, 19501-1975. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Zhang, Xiaoming. Deng Xiaoping?s Long War: The Military Conflict between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Zhou, Taomo. Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia and the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. Primary Sources Collections Chinese Foreign Policy Database. Wilson Center Digital Archive. History and Public Policy Program. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/theme/chinese-foreign-policy-database. China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980: Sources from the School of Oriental and African Studies and the British Library, London. Adam Matthew Digital.
Essay (35%, 3000 words) in the LT. Essay (35%, 3000 words) in the ST. Source analysis (15%) in the MT. Class participation (15%) in the MT and LT.