 | 27 For a more detailed discussion of the relationship between Chinese and North Korean Communists prior to the Korean War, see ibid., 106-13.
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| 28. For a discussion, see Chen Jian, "Why and How China Entered the Korean War: In Light of New Evidence," paper prepared for an international conference entitled "The Korean War: An Assessment of the Historical Record," July 24-25, 1995, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 10-12.
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| 29. For a more detailed discussion, see Chen Jian,
China's Road to the Korean War,
87-8.
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| 30. See ibid., pp. 110-11; see also Bruce Cumings,
The Origins of the Korean War
(Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), vol. 2, 363.
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| 31. Xiao Jinguang,
Xiao Jinguang huiyilu
[Xiao Jinguang's memoirs] (Beijing: Jiexangjun, 1990), vol. 2, 8, 26.
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| 32. Mao Zedong to Nie Rongzhen, July 7, 1950,
Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao,
vol. 1, 428; Han Huanzhi and Tai Jinqiao et al.,
Dangdai zhongguo jundui de junshi gongzuo
[Military affairs of contemporary Chinese armed forces] (Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue, 1988), vol. 1, 449-50.
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| 33. Chen Jian,
China's Road to the Korean War,
137.
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| 34. Telegram, Mao Zedong to Gao Gang, August 18, 1950,
Jianguo yilai Mao Zedong wengao,
vol. 1,499; see also telegram, Mao Zedong to Gao Gang, August 5, 1950, ibid., 454.
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| 35. Telegram, Stalin to Soviet Ambassador in Beijing (N. V. Roshchin) with message for Zhou Enlai, July 5, 1950,
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996): 43.
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| 36. See Chen Jian,
China's Road to the Korea War,
156; see also telegram, Filippov (Stalin) to Zhou Enlai, August 27, 1950,
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996): 45.
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| 37. Telegram, Stalin to Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, October 1, 1950; see
CWIHP Bulletin
6-7 (Winter 1995/1996): 114. Stalin dispatched this telegram after the UN forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and Kim Il Sung requested direct Soviet and Chinese intervention in the war.
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