Dr Sergey Radchenko – although the teaching will be done by the Philippe Roman Visiting Professor, Chen Jian.

The course will be available to MA/MSc History of International Relations, MSc Theory and History of International Relations, LSE-Columbia University Double Degree in International and World History and LSE-PKU Double Degree MSc International Affairs students.

A background in international history would be preferable but not essential.

The focus of the course in 2008-09 will be on the international history of China since 1949.

Subjects covered by this course include:

Traditional Chinese Views of the 'World'; Origins of the Chinese Communist Foreign Policy; The Rise of the 'New China'; Mao, Zhou and China's Foreign Policy Making; The Sino-Soviet Alliance; China and the Korean War; Geneva and Bandung, 1954-1955; The Polish and Hungarian Crises, 1956; The Taiwan Straits Crises, 1954 and 1958; The Tibet Challenge, 1950-1959; The Chinese-Indian Border War, 1962; The Sino-Soviet Split; China and the Vietnam Wars; The Cultural Revolution and the Deepening of the 'Legitimacy Crisis'; The Chinese-American Rapprochement, 1969-1972; The Path toward 'Opening to the Outside World'; Chinese Foreign Policy during the Reform Era; 1989 as a Turning Point; The 'China Challenge' in the 21st Century.

Ten one hour lectures (5 in MT, 5 in LT) and 22 90 minute seminars.

At least two non-assessed essays plus a mock examination.

A more detailed reading list will be issued at the start of the course; the following list provides a useful introduction to the themes, events and historiography of the course:

Barbara Barnouin and Yu Changgen, Chinese Foreign Policy during the Cultural Revolution (London and New York, 1998; Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (London, 2005);Chen Jian, Mao’s China and the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC., 2001); Chen Jian, China’s Road to the Korean War (New York, 1994); Michael H. Hunt, The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy (New York, 1996); John King Fairbank, The United States and China (Cambridge, MA, 1983); Gao Wenqian, Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary (New York, 2007); William C. Kirby, Robert S. Ross, and Gong Li eds., Normalization of U.S. –China Relations: An International History (Cambridge, MA, 2005); John Lewis and Xue Litai, China Builds the Bomb (Stanford, CA, 1988); Lorenz Luthi, The Sino-Soviet Split (Princeton, 2008); Maurice Meisner, Mao’s China and After (New York，1999); Robert Ross and Jiang Changbin, eds., Re-examining the Cold War: U.S.-China Relations, 1954-1973 (Cambridge, MA, 2001); Philip Short, Mao: A Life (New York, 1999); Qian Qichen, Ten Episodes in China’s Diplomacy (New York, 2005); Odd Arne Westad, ed., Brothers in Arms: The Rise and Fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963 (Washington, DC, 1998); Xia Yafeng, Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks during the Cold War (Bloomington, IN, 2006); Qiang Zhai, China and the Vietnam Wars (Chapel Hill, NC, 1999); Shu Guang Zhang, Economic Cold War: America's Embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1963 (Washington, DC, 2002)

A three hour unseen examination in the ST (100%).