Remember: The description of China in the American Sriftanos 'General History of the World' will only be evaluated by the concepts of civilization and backwardness, autocracy and democracy, and the modifiers are vague and not too detailed; Fairbank's "General History of China" is a proper western view of China, thinking and logic.
If we talk about how to describe China in foreign history? Then I think it is completely possible to refer to the two books "Global General History" and "General History of China", but the times are different, and any country and region other than China has different visions and thinking logic for historical records. Regarding the history of China and North Korea, that is indeed a heavy brush in the history of the two countries (regions).
North Korea's attitude and record of its own history is not different from that of South Korea and Japan, at least in terms of its attitude toward Chinese history, North Korea is an objective and rational attitude to record the relevant events. South Korea and Japan, on the other hand, have blatantly tampered with textbooks, and some of their own humiliating histories and the glorious histories of other countries, that is, their way of not daring to objectively admit and treat them rationally, has led to distortions of the objective.
So what are the consequences of doing so? Just as Japanese students were unaware of the Nanjing Massacre and thought that the 14-year war of aggression against China was a glorious war of liberation; South Korea even said that kimchi was imported from South Korea by China. Compared with Japan and South Korea, North Korea's history textbooks are indeed objective and rational.
The earliest time of exchanges between ancient China and the Korean Peninsula can be traced back to the Qin Dynasty, because of the backwardness of ancient communication and the inconvenience of transportation, so the two regions were not very close. Ancient China and the Korean Peninsula had a close turning point in the Ming Dynasty, when Li Chenggui established the Joseon Dynasty, he always ended up with the so-called "Great Doctrine", that is, it became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty and concluded a treaty of friendship between the two countries.
There is a point in North Korean history textbooks that is particularly interesting. When it comes to the relationship between China and the Korean Peninsula, before the Qing Dynasty, the Joseon Dynasty was loyal to the ancient Chinese imperial court, but this relationship lasted until the Manchu Qing dynasty entered the Central Plains. Because of hundreds of thousands of years of exchanges with China, the monarchs and courtiers of the Joseon Dynasty believed in "Honoring the Zhou Dynasty". Therefore, in the eyes of Korean Confucians, some non-Han dynasties interspersed in ancient China cannot be regarded as Chinese, and they are not worth serving.
Stepping into the modern history of the Korean Peninsula, from the aspect of ideology alone, the relevant history textbooks in The DPRK are more objective. At the end of the 19th century, China at that time began the Western Affairs Movement and the Penghu Reform Law, and the Dprk at the same time also began to criticize the idea of "respecting Confucianism". What followed was a "mainland policy" similar to Japan's original proposal, in which the North Korean government considered northeast China its own territory.
In 1909, at the instigation and instigation of the Japanese state, Korea launched the Majima Incident in the face of the Qing Dynasty, intending to invade and occupy tens of thousands of square kilometers of Chinese territory on the northeast border. Although the Qing government was on the verge of extinction at that time, it still sent troops directly to Japan and Korea, and won the territorial victory in a short period of time, and finally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Majima in 1909 to reaffirm that Majima belonged to China.
In fact, in the history textbooks of Korea, there are two points worth noting: one is that the Manchu Qing dynasty entered the Central Plains, and at this moment the Korean Peninsula began to have a yin and yang violation of China under the manchu rule; the other is the merger of Japan and South Korea, because of Japan's influence on some unfriendly and tiger-eyed ideas in China, which led to a sharp change in the attitude of the people on the Korean Peninsula toward China.
In 1931, the Manbosan Incident caused a sensation around the world, a tragedy caused by South Koreans' dissatisfaction with Chinese. The incident lasted for nearly a month, and more than 100 Chinese workers were killed, which directly led to the vast majority of overseas Chinese in Korea retreating from the Korean Peninsula and returning to China.
Maybe you haven't seen such a history? The General History of Korea published by the DPRK helps everyone to have a deep understanding of the country on the Korean Peninsula. Since the split between the ROK and the DPRK, the history of the DPRK is more objective than that of the ROK, but it still lacks respect for the history of China, and some inherent histories are also suspected of tampering. For example, "Northeast China belongs to Korea", "Some countries on the Korean Peninsula are in the Chinese mainland", "the great achievements of the Chinese Volunteer Army in aiding Korea" have been mentioned"...