history and memory… Reading the Absences in Ramseyer’s “Comfort Women” Provocation 19 Feb 202120 Feb 2021 A new publication on Japan’s wartime system of military prostitution (‘Contracting for sex in the Pacific War,' International Review of Law and Economics [December 2020]) has generated a whirlwind of…
China… Surveying the Job Market for Chinese History PhDs, 2018-2021 13 Feb 202119 Feb 2021 Out of curiosity and as a service to my own PhD students, I did a review of some recent university job searches in the field of East Asian history, and thought it…
China… Chinese Strategy and South Korea 1 Sep 202024 Oct 2020 My newest essay, a study commissioned by the National Bureau of Asian Research and introduced and edited by Nadège Rolland, was published on 25 August. The chapter is not paywalled…
Beijing… “The Enemies Made this Possible”: Sino-North Korean Relations after 1948 6 Jun 202023 Dec 2020 “’The Enemies Made This Possible’: Sino-North Korean relations since 1948” with Yujin Lim, in Adrian Buzo, ed., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary North Korea (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 131-140. Abstract: This chapter is…
Chinese communist party… More to Life than Kim Jong-un: Reflections on Robert Collins’ Report on the Organization and Guidance Department 26 Sep 2019 Today the NK News website published a 1600-word essay I wrote in response to Robert Collins' extensive new report on the Organization and Guidance Department of the Korean Workers' Party. A…
Borderlands… On the Opening of the Ji’an-Manp’o Trade Port 20 Apr 201920 Apr 2019 As a small Chinese city on the Yalu River, Ji'an (集安) is an often-overlooked juncture for Chinese-North Korean movement of supplies and people. It was the main conduit for the…
history and memory… Women and the Workplace in Japan, Abe and the Emperor, Japan and Brexit 4 Feb 2019 https://twitter.com/HirokoTabuchi/status/1091860304831500288 https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/1092321873390718976 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1092376576434556929 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1070591972937793536 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/590090971079139328 https://twitter.com/annafifield/status/1088602316561891329 https://twitter.com/SasakawaUSA/status/1090311153107038208 https://twitter.com/JamesDJBrown/status/1090424747739869184 https://twitter.com/AsiaSocietyKR/status/1089844656228233217 https://twitter.com/Paul_Kreitman/status/1090222125527584768 https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1091975072762548224 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1087992146416861186 https://twitter.com/adamcathcart/status/1092375936471891969 https://twitter.com/HarvardUSJapan/status/1090620111025856512
Borderlands… Memory and Reproduction: A Study of 1980s Chinese Ethnic Korean Revolutionary Narratives—Yun Il-san’s The Roaring Mudan River 15 Jan 201915 Jan 2019 The Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies recently published a new and very exciting paper by two Chinese scholars focusing on an area of great interest to me, and hopefully…
Beijing… Robert Jay Lifton, Revolutionary Immortality, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution 12 Jan 201913 Jan 2021 In 1954, an American psychologist travelled to Hong Kong, where he carried out extensive interviews with both Chinese and foreign survivors of captivity, solitary confinement, and torture psychological variety in…
China… Mistranslating Mao in Chengdu, 1958 7 Jan 201918 Dec 2020 The question of Mao Zedong’s personal role in triggering massive famine in China during the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) brings us into an important debate. In recent years, big histories…
