China and North Korea

At a time when Chinese policy makers appear to be rethinking China's historically close alliance relationship with North Korea, this volume gathers a diverse collection of original essays by some of China's leading experts on North Korea and China's North Korea policy.

Contents List of illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword; Ambassador John Bosworth Map 1. Introduction: Continuity and Change in Chinese Expert Views of North Korea; Carla P. Freeman PART I: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA AND REGIONAL SECURITY 2. Painful Lessons, Reversing Practices, and Ongoing Limitations: China Facing North Korea since 2003; SHI Yinhong 3. North Korea's Security Implications for China; ZHU Feng and Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga 4. Identifying a New, More Effective Role for China vis-à-vis Korean Peninsula Issues through an Integrated Class Analysis Approach with Chinese Characteristics; PIAO Jianyi and MA Yunpeng 5. Chinese Views of North Korea's Regional Role; YU Shaohua 6. Refuting Two Historical Myths: A New Interpretation of China-North Korean Relations; SHEN Zhihua and Yafeng Xia PART II: CHINA-NORTH KOREA RELATIONS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 7. China's Anti-Japanese War and the Independence Movement on the Korean Peninsula; JIN Jingyi 8. TheEvolution of the Lips and Teeth Relationship: China-North Korea Relations in the 1960s; CHENG Xiaohe 9. An Attempt at Analyzing the Cross and Triangular Divided Relations among the Four Regimes in China and the Korean Peninsula after World War II; QUAN Hexiu PART III: THE MANY FACETS OF CHINA'S RELATIONS WITH NORTH KOREA 10. China's Policy toward the DPRK's Nuclear and Missile Programs; GU Guoliang 11. China's Role and its Dilemma in the Six Party Talks; YANG Xiyu 12. A Strategic and Emotional Partner: China and its Food Aid to North Korea in the Twenty-first Century; LI Nan 13. Evaluating North Korea's Economic Policy in the 2000s Economic Cooperation with China is an Inevitable Choice; Lin Jinsu 14. North Korea's Guiding Ideology and its Impact; LI Yongchun 15. 'Hereditary Succession' and the DPRK Leadership; JIN Zhe Notes on contributors