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 20191 Jul 2021 [Updated on 1 July 2021] 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.…
Beijing… New Fragments from Mao in the Cultural Revolution 10 Dec 2018 In December 2013, scholars of the history of the PRC were given a shot in the arm via the publication of Mao Zedong Nianpu, 1949-1976, consisting of six volumes of previously obscure…
American Foreign Policy… George H.W. Bush in Mao’s China 1 Dec 20181 Dec 2018 With the death of George H.W. Bush, it is an opportune time to look back at his time as the top U.S. diplomat in Beijing in the immediate aftermath…
American Foreign Policy… On Think Tanks, or, What Trump Didn’t Get in Helsinki 17 Jul 201818 Jul 2018 The Trump administration has brought with it a dark winter of discontent to US think tanks. Institutions stocked with the analytical rosters of former Clinton and Obama appointees with North Korea-related expertise…
American Foreign Policy… North Koreans Watching Fox 24 May 2018 This post operates on sanity-preserving ground rules: No referring to: think-pieces, think-tank analyses, journalistic hot takes, outraged or absurd Tweets (other than those thumbed out by POTUS), Chuck Schumer's courageous…
Kim Jong-un… On the Perils of Journalistic Moonlighting for Academics 19 May 201818 Dec 2020 The inter-Korean summit which occurred on 27 April 2018 coincided with a rare stretch of open time and full energy for me, so I was able to write three pieces…
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