Abstract
Newly available sources in China provide an opportunity to revisit the origins and development of China’s intervention in the Korean War. Our search explores new trends in the geopolitical history of modern East Asia with an emphasis on Chinese perspectives. It elucidates China’s position in the Korean War as not peripheral but, in many key senses, central. It identifies some non-Cold War factors, which were as important as international Cold War factors. These China-centered factors were, and still are, in the DNA of Chinese national defense and security concerns. Traditional and realistic, they were among the most important factors for Mao Zedong and many other Chinese rulers, including Ming and Qing emperors, to make decisions to go to wars in Korea.
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