The Thematization of Key Issues of the China-Balkan Relations, 1950s-Present

• In Event: Institutionalization and Thematization of China-Balkan Relations Research

Abstract

This paper will shed light on events, processes, and topics related to China-Balkan relations that either piqued the interest of Chinese experts, academics, and media when they were current, or had a lasting impact on political or economic conditions in China. The discussion will encompass a wide array of subjects, including the influence of Georgi Dimitrov on the evolution of communist internationalism in China, the ramifications of turbulence within communist Europe (such as the Tito-Stalin split, the Hungarian crisis, the Prague Spring, martial law in Poland, Ceausescu’s downfall, and more), China’s anti-Yugoslavia campaign, Stalinism in Albania, Chinese “learning campaigns” sent to Yugoslavia, Romania, or Hungary in the 1970s, the growing disunity among Eastern European communist states and its influence on China’s understanding of global communist unity, and the reconceptualization of the national question in the context of Yugoslavia’s dissolution, the Kosovo issue and NATO’s intervention, to name just a few.

Author

• Ivica Bakota, Capital Normal U (China)