Zhihua Shen, Thomas C. Burnham (2026). The Sino-Soviet Alliance, the Korean War, and the Predicament of the CCP’s Attack Plans for Taiwan, 1949–50. Journal of Chinese History.DOI
Zhihua Shen (2024). Allies in Trouble: The Direction of Sino-North Korean Relations amid the US-China Rapprochement, 1971-1976. China And Asia, Vol. 6, No. 1.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Weiqin Kong (2024). The Chinese Soviet Studies in 21st Century. Part 2', Modern History of Russia. Noveishaya Istoriya Rossii-Modern History Of Russia, Vol. 14, No. 4.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Weiqin Kong (2024). 'The Chinese Soviet Studies in 21st Century. Part 1', Modern History of Russia. Noveishaya Istoriya Rossii-Modern History Of Russia, Vol. 14, No. 3.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Yang-Zi Lin (2024). Sino-American Rapprochement and China’s Dilemma in Dealing with the Korean Peninsula Issue (1971-1976). Asian Journal of Peacebuilding.DOI
Zhihua Shen (2023). Reconsidering China’s Decision to Enter the Korean War— Seventieth Year after the Korean Armistice. The Chinese Historical Review.DOI
沈志华(2022). 经济漩涡:观察冷战发生的新视角 = Economic vortex:the beginning of the Cold War reinterpreted. 《开明书店》.
Zhi-Hua Shen (2022). The Internal Causes of the Collapse of Sino-Soviet Relations. Новая и новейшая история.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2022). Choice in Crisis – Assessment on China’s policy making on the armistice negotiation during the Korean War –. Korean Studies of Modern Chinese History.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). Conflicts of Interest and Creation of the Alliance Treaty, 1949–1950. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). The Polish and Hungarian Crises and CCP Political Support for Khrushchev, 1956–1957. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). The Twentieth CPSU Congress and the Eighth CCP Congress, 1956. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2019). Contested Border: A Historical Investigation into the Sino-Korean Border Issue, 1950–1964.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Wei-Min Yu (2019). How did Stalin fall into the “Thucydides Trap”: how Soviet–US relations shifted from cooperation to confrontation after World War II. China International Strategy Review.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). Differences and Cooperation During the Korean War, 1950–1953. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). Mao, Khrushchev, and the Moscow Conference, 1957. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). The Political and Economic Foundations of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1948–1949. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). Khrushchev’s Policy Toward China and the Honeymoon of the Alliance, 1954–1956. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2019). Differences Over Domestic and Foreign Policies, 1957–1959. A Short History of Sino-Soviet Relations, 1917–1991.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). Epilogue: China and North Korea in the Era of Deng Xiaoping. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). V. North Korea’s Balancing Act, 1961–1965. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). IV. Mao’s Policy of Mollification, 1957–1960. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Michael M. Sheng, Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). A Misunderstood Friendship: Mao Zedong, Kim Il-Sung, and Sino-North Korean Relations, 1949–1976. Pacific Affairs.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). II. Sharp Contradictions Among the Leadership, 1950–1953. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). A Misunderstood Friendship: Acknowledgments. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2018). VII. China’s Last Ally, 1970–1976. A Misunderstood Friendship.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Dan-Hui Li (2017). The Predicament of Proletariat Internationalism ― Structural Defects of Inter-Socialist State Relations as Reflected in the Sino-Soviet Split.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2017). Sharing a similar fate: the historical process of the Korean Communists’ merger with the Chinese Communist Party (1919–1936).DOI
Zhihua Shen, Julia Lovell (2015). Undesired Outcomes: China's Approach to Border Disputes during the Early Cold War. Cold War History, Vol. 150, No. 10.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2015). On the Eighty-Eighth Brigade and the Sino–Soviet–Korean triangular relationship – A glimpse at the international antifascist united front during the war of resistance against Japan.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Yafeng Xia (2015). Mao and the Sino–Soviet Partnership, 1945–1959.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2015). Refuting Two Historical Myths: A New Interpretation of China-North Korean Relations.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Wen-Nan Liu (2015). “Historical research is like retrying an old case”: an interview with Shen Zhihua, June 17, 2015.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2015). Refuting Two Historical Myths.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia (2014). Leadership transfer in the Asian revolution: Mao Zedong and the Asian Cominform. Cold War History, Vol. 140, No. 20.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2014). Chinese–North Korean Relations and China's Policy toward Korean Cross-Border Migration, 1950–1962. Journal of Cold War Studies.DOI
Ya-Feng Xia, Zhi-Hua Shen (2014). China’s Last Ally: Beijing’s Policy toward North Korea during the U.S.–China Rapprochement, 1970–1975.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2013). Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. SHEILA MIYOSHI JAGER. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. xvi + 608 pp. $23.34. ISBN 978-0-393-06849-8. The China Quarterly.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia (2011). The Great Leap Forward, the People's Commune and the Sino-Soviet Split. Journal Of Contemporary China, Vol. 200, No. 72.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2011). Mao Zedong’s Erroneous Decision During the Korean War: China’s Rejection of the UN Cease-fire Resolution in Early 1951.DOI
Zhihua Shen (2010). China and the Dispatch of the Soviet Air Force: The Formation of the Chinese-Soviet-Korean Alliance in the Early Stage of the Korean War. Journal Of Strategic Studies, Vol. 330, No. 2.DOI
Zhihua Shen, Yafeng Xia (2010). The whirlwind of China: Zhou Enlai's shuttle diplomacy in 1957 and its effects. Cold War History, Vol. 100, No. 40.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen (2010). Bombardment of Quemoy (Jinmen):The Soviet Reaction and the Sino-Soviet Discord.
Zhi-Hua Shen (2009). Zhou Enlai with counter-aggressive advance in 1956——a debate on the policy of economic construction between the high-level leaders of CPC.
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2009). New Evidence for China's Role in the Hungarian Crisis of October 1956: A Note.DOI
Zhi-Hua Shen, Ya-Feng Xia (2009). Hidden Currents during the Honeymoon: Mao, Khrushchev, and the 1957 Moscow Conference. Journal of Cold War Studies.DOI
Zhihua Shen (2009). China in the Eyes of the Central Intelligence Agency:A Summary of Comprehensive Documents on U. S. Intelligence Estimate of China during the Cold War. Shixue yuekan.
Zhi-Hua Shen (2007). The Treaty of Peace with Japan and the Korean truce negotiations.DOI
Zhihua Shen (2007). Stalin,Mao Zedong and the Korean War Reconsidered:Based on Newest Evidence from the Russian Archives. Collected Papers of History Studies.
Zhihua Shen (2007). On the October Crises in Eastern Europe:China’s Reaction and Reflection——A Study of “the Polish and Hungarian Incidents and China”,Part 2. Shixue yuekan.