Art… Walls as Multivalent Icons in Early People’s Republican Cartoons, 1946-1951 13 Apr 2018 The rise and ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese civil war, and Mao's galvanizing intervention into the Korean War, was accompanied and supported by a wave…
American Foreign Policy… New Book Reviews: Espionage in Republican China, and Britain’s Role in the Korean War 30 Mar 201830 Mar 2018 My two new book reviews engage with the intelligence history of two chaotic decades in China, and the British role in the Korean War, respectively. Review of Panagiotis Dimitrakis, The…
China… Wartime History and Beijing’s Response to the New Defence Minister in Tokyo 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016 In the wake of the Upper House elections in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed a reshuffling of his cabinet. As described by Japan hand Michael Cucek, it was…
China… Writing the Early Postwar: White and Jacoby’s _Thunder Out of China_ 2 Aug 20163 Aug 2016 Foreign correspondents are crucial conduits for insights into contemporary East Asia. As I've learned from my conversations with various bureau chiefs, stringers, and greybeards in the region, there are few…
Chinese foreign policy… Reading and Writing Chinese-North Korean Cold War History 14 Jul 2016 Tian Wuxiong, a Ph.D. candidate in modern history at Peking University, has produced a nicely nuanced view of the withdrawal of the Chinese People’s Volunteers from the North. Tian has a…
China… On the ‘Cairo Declaration’ Fiasco 18 Aug 2015 While the tendency of the CCP to insert itself at the main junctures of Chinese history in the 20th century is anything but new, there has been an increasing alignment…
China… Will China Disintegrate? A British Assessment in 1947 6 Jul 20156 Jul 2015 On either side of an energizing North Korea public event I did this past Friday in London, I make two treks out to the UK's National Archives in Kew Gardens. My…
American Foreign Policy… Atrocities, Insults, and “Jeep Girls”: Depictions of the U.S. Military in China, 1945-1949 13 May 201514 May 2015 Controversy continues to surround various military occupations in East Asia in the 20th century. Specifically, the connection between military occupation and sex work carried out by women the occupied countries remains…
China… Chinese Journalists and the U.S. Occupation of Japan 5 Apr 20156 Apr 2015 At the conclusion of eight years of Japanese occupation of nearly every major city in the Republic of China, Chinese journalists were prepared not just to celebrate victory but to…
Chinese foreign policy… Hong Kong in Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1945-, Recommended Reading 9 Jan 201510 Jan 2015 James T. H. Tang, “From Empire Defence to Imperial Retreat: Britain's Postwar China Policy and the Decolonization of Hong Kong,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 28, No. 2 (May, 1994), pp. 317-337.…
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