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long after the bloody war in Korea there were few researches based on total objectivity in China until the 1980s. Thanks to the "Reform and Opening" that we began to have chance reading works from all side, especially by the declassification of the Soviet-era documents we tended to believe that the war was indeed ignited by an invasion from North Korea.
Warmongers had to admit the human tragedy if they were still alive, but turning back to the cold war time, the Panmunjom agreement was indeed a balance deal for all sides. Kim Il Sung failed to incorporate the South Korea,The Soviet Union and the U.S had to congeal their far east extending strategy by the 38th Parallel,while China finally got a glacis retained,at the expense of Taiwan's status quo.
The first upsurge of Korean War research came in the late 1970s ,with the release of American diplomatic documents in 1976. Matthew B. Ridgway,Ernest A. Gross,Averell W. Harriman(consultant to Harry S. Truman the US president),J. Lawton Collins and John J. Muccio were the most remarkable participators in the main stream. Among which we know most about are "The Korean War" by Matthew B. Ridgway,"Korea the First War We Lost" by Bevin Alexander,"Korean War, Peng and his voluntary army " by Russell Spurr,"Child of Conflict: The Korean-American Relationship, 1943-1953" by Bruce Cumings,"This Kind of War" by T. R. Fehrenbach, and "Forgotten War" by Clay Blair.
The second wave came with the extensive release of Chinese archives and dictated historical materials in the late 1980s.such as "The Manuscript of Maozedong","Military Analects of Pengdehuai" , "A review to Significant Decisions and Arrairs"by Boyibo the vise prime minister,and "Recall of Korean war" by Hongxuezhi,the general and former commander of No.43 Chinese Army.
The Chinese releases did help a lot in international reserach of Korean War,Mao's 46 decision-making telegraphes were fully pulished in American journals while many more archives introduced to western scholars by the Wilson International Scholar Center with its aperiodic publication.those archives obviously contributed to reseraching works like "Threat,Confidence and the last chance for peace" by Thoman Christanson, "Review on China's dicision of entering into Korean war" by Haoyufan, "China's way to the Korean War" by Chenjian,"Peiking and Korean Crisis" by Michael Hunter and especially the coauthored "Uncertain Partner" by scholars from South Koran,Russia,the US and China.
In the third wave of Korean War Reserach,the declassification of Soviet-era archives peaked the whole work in early 1990s,by which reseraching works truned into an unheard-of flourish. actually as OAH said that any listing and discussion of resources for the history of the Korean War (1950-1953) must deal with Soviet-era documents released or uncovered in the last several years. This period see notablely Stanley Sandler's "The Korean War: No Victors, No Vanquished" , William Whitney's "The Korean War: An International History", Ridgway's "Duels for Korea", Russell Spurr's "Enter the Dragon: China’s Undeclared War Against the U.S. in Korea, 1950-1951", Roy Appleman's "Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur" and Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis, and Xue Litai's "Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War", Shenzhihua's "Korean War,declassfied documents from Russian",William Sterk's "Korean War in the international history" and Puwenzhu's "Review on history,Stalin's foreign policy and the Korean war", and a pile of Russian works which we can trust by and large after disaggregation of the Soviet Union.
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