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China-GDR Relations from 1949 to 1989

Part of the Contributions to International Relations Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-79337-1

ISBN: 978-3-030-79336-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Dec 15, 2021

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

LitStream

Chapter 1Introduction—Actors, Theories, Policies and Catastrophes

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 1 –15

[The German Democratic Republic (GDR) and China were always going to be awkward partners and/or allies—admittedly that was the case for many countries maintaining relations with China under Mao, who propagated ‘eternal struggle’ and ‘eternal and constant revolution’ as the basis of China’s...
LitStream

Chapter 2The 1950s—Good and then Not so Good (Bilateral) Times

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 17 –54

[Things between East Berlin and Beijing were going great, initially. The enemies were all in the ‘imperialist’ West, while Moscow was running the socialist/communist show in the East and Marx, and Lenin had all the recipes for running socialist oppressive regimes. The dictators in East Berlin and...
LitStream

Chapter 3East Berlin and the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962)

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 55 –79

[This chapter examines the GDR’s perception and interpretation of Mao’s Great Leap Forward. Probably the most disastrous and ill-fated man-made economic and campaign in reported human history. That however, as it turned out, did not keep the regime in East Berlin from initially liking everything...
LitStream

Chapter 4The Berlin Wall and China

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 81 –91

[In this chapter, we find out that it was Beijing and its propaganda organs’ turn to misinterpret and distort history when in 1961 East Berlin’s dictator Walter Ulbricht decided to permanently separate German families through a wall, which in his view was in reality a ‘border security measure’...
LitStream

Chapter 5The Rollercoaster Relations of the 1960s

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 93 –128

[In this chapter, we examine the few ups and the many downs of bilateral East German–Chinese relations in the 1960s. The Sino-Soviet Split and Moscow and Beijing turning into full-fledged enemies mainly talking about as opposed to each other, clearly took a toll on bilateral ties. While Mao had...
LitStream

Chapter 6East Berlin and the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 129 –150

[The Cultural Revolution ended in disaster because of the Soviet Union’s ‘revisionist’ interference. That is what Mao and his wife Jiang Qing concluded when in 1969 they allowed China’s PLA to take over and arrest Mao’s Red Guards who had tortured, terrorized and killed all over China throughout...
LitStream

Chapter 7The German and Berlin Questions

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 151 –183

[This chapter analyses a quasi-miracle of evolution and world politics: the birth of a new nation. The end of World War II and the division of Germany, Walter Ulbricht decided on behalf of all Germans in 1949, had not only created a second German state but also a second German nation. A divine...
LitStream

Chapter 8The 1970s—Nixon, Ostpolitik and Beijing Toasting with Bonn

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 185 –215

[This chapter is about how some things fall to pieces, while others fall in place. The former are relations between the GDR and China, while the latter are Beijing’s ties with the ‘imperialist’ West in general and the USA in particular. Beijing under the increasingly frail and sick Mao Zedong...
LitStream

Chapter 9The 1980s—Best Friends Again. One Is Shooting, the Other Is Collapsing.

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 217 –256

[This chapter is about catching up with old comrades, trying to make new friends and pretending that all is good and getting better in a parallel reality of socialist feel good brotherhood. At least that was what the GDR under Erich Honecker had planned for in the 1980s when he ordered the...
LitStream

Chapter 10GDR Falling Apart, China Watching from a Distance

Berkofsky, Axel

Pages: 257 –279

[This chapter examines the last act of East German and Chinese false reporting, the denial of reality and the ability not to see what the rest of the world had been seeing and hoping for over months: the GDR’s irreversible collapse, German reunification and the indefinite end of the ‘second...

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