Speaker: Zhihua Shen, Director, Center for Cold War International History Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai

Chair: Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University

The presentation will be given in Chinese, with slides and Q&A in English and Chinese.

历史研究者的基本责任就在于揭开历史真相，尽可能地还原历史的本来面貌，而要做到这一点，就必须不断地发掘、梳理和解读原始档案和文献。本次讲座以中苏同盟起草、1958年炮击金门、周恩来与斯大林的黑海会谈、刘少奇与斯大林会谈等有关档案的利用与研究为案例，以此揭示冷战国际史研究与档案文献的开发与研究之间的复杂关系。

Why and how did the Cold War begin? The origins of the Cold War have been the subject of extensive study and debate. Through thorough, multilingual, and multi-archival research, China’s leading historian of the Cold War, Shen Zhihua, uses several important case studies to illustrate the complex relationships between the research on global history and the exploration and utilization of the archives on the Cold War.

沈志华，中国上海华东师范大学历史学系终身教授，冷战国际史研究中心主任，周边国家研究院院长，美国伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心资深研究员，太和智库高级研究员。他的研究领域包括冷战国际史、苏联史、中苏关系、中朝关系。代表著作有：《最后的“天朝”——毛泽东、金日成与中朝关系（1945-1976）》（2017、2018年增订）、《处在十字路口的选择——1956-1957年的中国》（2013年）、《无奈的选择——冷战与中苏同盟的命运》（2013年）、《思考与选择：从知识分子会议到反右派运动（1956–1957）》（2008年）等等

Zhihua Shen is the director of the Center for Cold War International History Studies at East China Normal University, Shanghai. He is the author of a number of major Chinese-language works on Cold War history, and he is the coauthor, with Yafeng Xia, of Mao and the Sino-Soviet Partnership, 1945‒1959: A New History (2015) and A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976 (2018), and coauthor, with Danhui Li, of After Leaning to One Side: China and its Allies in the Cold War (2011).