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.

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Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, The Jamestown Foundation, Washington, D.C., USA. Cheng Xiaohe, School of International Studies, Renmin University, Beijing, China. Gu Guoliang, Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Studies Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Jin Jingyi, Korean Peninsula Research Center, Peking University, China Jin Zhe, Korean Peninsula Research Center, Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, China. Li Nan, Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Li Yongchun, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Lin Jinsu, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages, Hangzhou, China. Ma Yunpeng, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Piao Jianyi, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Quan Hexiu, Research Center for the History of International Relations in East Asia, Liaoning University, China. Shen Zhihua, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Shi Yinhong, Renmin University, Beijing, China. Yafeng Xia, Long Island University, New York, USA, and Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. Yang Xiyu, China Institute of International Studies, China, and Institute of Boao Forum for Asia, China Yu Shaohua Center of Asia-Pacific Security and Cooperation, China Institute for International Studies, China Zhu Feng, School of International Studies, Peking University, China, and Collaborative Innovation Center for South China Sea Studies, Nanjing University, China.

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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