Economic Alliance, Economic Split

Tao Chen is Associate Professor of German Studies at Tongji University, China. His current project explores the Sino-German/European relations and China’s industrialization since 1945. He is the author of two books and has published articles in European Review of History, Journal of Contemporary History, Cold War History, The International History Review, China Review, and other journals.Jan Zofka is a historian of Eastern Europe specializing in the transnational history of state socialist economy, with a special focus on early Cold War industrialization and commodity history. He has authored several articles in journals such as Cold War History, Journal of Global History, European Review of History, and Europe-Asia Studies and a book on post-Soviet separatisms in Crimea and Transnistria.

• Introduction: Economic dimensions of the Sino–Soviet alliance and split 1. Between economy and politics: China and the Leipzig Trade Fair (1950–1966) 2. Counterbalancing low expectations with high hopes: Integrating global technology and pre-1949 legacy in China’s motor vehicle industry in the 1950s 3. ‘Our Chinese comrades are determined to split and struggle’. The influence of the Sino-Soviet split on technological cooperation between Hungary and China 4. Preparing for an alliance: China’s socialist model and Albania’s economic path in the Early Cold War 5. Socialist advisers and the dilemmas of the ‘socialist world system’: Sino-Soviet exchange as a model for failure in Guinea-Conakry, 1950–64 6. The China market: East German and Bulgarian industrial facility export to the PRC in the 1950s 7. Towards a political economy of socialist international relations