EU-East Asia relations… Documents on Crown Prince Hirohito’s visit to the United Kingdom in 1921 29 Jan 201830 Jan 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMGmi7GLro0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UPAoI20Pt0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBeElh81rBQ Historian Herbert Bix describes Hirohito's long voyage to the United Kingdom in 1921 as a number of things: it was a test of the court and the…
China… Britain’s Global Cold War: Publications by Alexander Nicholas Shaw 6 Jan 20176 Jan 2017 One of the nice things about my job is that I get to work with some the most talented young historians in the field today. Alexander Shaw is one of those…
EU-East Asia relations… Questioning North Korea’s Narrative of the London Diplomat Defection 21 Aug 201621 Aug 2016 It took about three days for the North Korean state to put together the opening salvo to its official public response to the stunning defection of Thae Yong-ho from its…
Chinese communist party… Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative 26 Jan 2016 2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists…
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…
EU-East Asia relations… From Hyesan to London: Hyeonseo Lee and the New North Korea Defector Memoir 2 Jul 2015 Hyeonseo Lee has produced an excellent memoir, a text which, along with John Sweeney and Emma Graham-Harrison, I will be discussing with her at an event organized by The Guardian…
China… On Northern Ireland and Hong Kong 20 Mar 2015 Telling the story of Hong Kong from 1840-now, Northern Ireland -- or the six counties of Ulster -- may seem an odd place to begin. What, after all, could be…
China… Old Chapters, New Chapters: The Memory Wars in East Asia 17 Mar 201517 Mar 2015 From the very beginning of the so-called ‘post war,’ the territorial and temporal parameters of the memory wars between China and Japan were never drawn particularly cleanly. The war ended…
EU-East Asia relations… Angela Merkel and Japan’s Wartime Past 11 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 The German Chancellor was in Tokyo for a couple of eventful days. Although Merkel sees Abe Shinzo regularly, she noted before leaving that she has not been to Japan, the country that…
EU-East Asia relations… Powerless Harmonies: Cultural Diplomacy in French-North Korean Relations 29 Dec 201429 Dec 2014 In March 2012, an orchestra of North Korean musicians went to Paris to perform, an event which gave us a very good case study of looking at the DPRK's soft…
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