In a project carried out at the PIASt PAN in Warsaw, Dr Federico Brusadelli of the University of Naples L' Orientale examines accounts and reflections on the crisis and break-up of Yugoslavia and its consequences, from 1991 to the present day. Using the methodological framework of conceptual history, the researcher will analyse a range of scholarly, didactic, but also political (official speeches) and audiovisual sources to trace the links between the Chinese leadership and Slobodan Milosevic. Together with PIASt researchers, as well as Professor Dawid Rogacz from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, he will examine how the break-up of Yugoslavia was interpreted by officials and intellectuals in Beijing as an opposition between nationalism and a negatively perceived federalism.