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Cruel Resurrection: Chinese Comics and the Korean War

19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018
I wrote this article in the early 2000s under the direction of the ageless Chinese art historian Shen Kuiyi, with whom I did a "cognate field" during my doctoral studies…
Borderlands…

Questioned Liberators: Guerrilla, Mobile, and Base Warfare in Communist Military Operations in Manchuria, 1945-1947

11 Oct 201711 Oct 2017
The years from 1945-1947 were a complex transitional period in the development of Chinese Communist military, political, and diplomatic strategy. While not yet facing the dilemmas of transforming wholesale an…
China…

Joshua’s Map: Beijing’s Coverage of North Korean Defector Issues and Human Rights

23 Aug 201720 Aug 2017
In January/February 2015, the Huanqiu Shibao (the foreign affairs tabloid under Beijing People's Daily, massive readership etc.) used one of Joshua Stanton's maps to indicate the locations of North Korea's largest…
American Foreign Policy…

Hillary Clinton and the Taxing Friendship: China and North Korea

22 Aug 201720 Aug 2017
This essay, previously unpublished, was written in Seattle on 27 May 2010. Hillary Clinton arrived in Beijing last weekend to send an urgent message to China: put pressure on North…
Borderlands…

Evaded States: Security and Control in the Sino-North Korean Border Region

27 Jul 2017
Adam Cathcart, “Evaded States: Security and Control in the Sino-North Korean Border Region,” in Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands, Alexander Horstmann, Martin Saxer, Alessandro Rippa, eds., (Routledge: December 2017), forthcoming. The Chinese-Korean border…
China…

Turning Anti-Japanese in China

4 Jul 201723 Dec 2015
Peering up from the various forms of wreckage spawned by the United States -- be it the lamentable state of transportation infrastructure, the gory aftermath of multiple-front wars in southwest…
American Foreign Policy…

Reflections on the History of Chinese-North Korean Relations, and US-DPRK Relations Today

12 Mar 201712 Mar 2017
Sometimes we need to modify the questions we ask. The question "Is the Chinese Communist Party going to cut off North Korea?" results in a fairly predictable string of analyses…
Borderlands…

Border Consolidation in Liaoning: From Chen Yun to Xi Jinping

6 Feb 2017
For presentation at Leiden University lecture series "Borders: Life on the Edge of Area Studies", 28 February 2017: For the Chinese Communist Party, the northeastern province of Liaoning today inhabits…
Borderlands…

Borderlands in Asia and Beyond: Readings

20 Jan 2017
Moving toward a text dealing with the Chinese-Korean border region, I have been catching up on my borderlands studies literature readings, some of which I aim to share in this…
American Foreign Policy…

North Korean Human Rights: Rex Tillerson as Blank Slate

11 Jan 201711 Jan 2017
Will the Trump administration maintain and extend US pressure on North Korea on the human rights front? Will the Executive Branch aim to extend and intensify US criticism of and dialogue…

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