Alsu Tagirova is Research Fellow at the Academy of History and Documentation of Socialism, East China Normal University, Shanghai. She is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University and Sessional Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include the History of Sino-Soviet relations, Korean Peninsula, and Central Asia. Her articles appeared in Asian Perspective, Cold War History, Journal of Cold War Studies, Nationalities Papers, Central Asian Survey, etc.