A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949-1976. By Zhihua Shen·Yafeng Xia. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xiv, 357 pp [ISBN 9780231188265]

• Tomer Nisimov

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Tomer Nisimov

Tomer Nisimov is a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica and National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has obtained his Bachelor and Master degrees in Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on transregional history and interethnic relations during China’s Civil War, and twentieth-century history of Northeast Asia