Professional Affiliation

Professor of History, Long Island University

Expert Bio

Yafeng Xia is a senior professor of social sciences at Long Island University in New York. He is the author of Negotiating with the Enemy: U.S.-China Talks During the Cold War, 1949‒1972 (2006) and coauthor of Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945‒1959: A New History, with Zhihua Shen (2015); Mao and the Sino-Soviet Split, 1959‒1973: A New History, with Danhui Li (2018); and A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976, with Zhihua Shen (2018). He has also published many articles on Cold War history and Chinese foreign relations. He can be reached at yafeng.xia@liu.edu.

Wilson Center Project

"A Purported Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung and the Myth of Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976”