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…
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…
Art… 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…
Cold War History… Weaponizing the Past, or, How to Get a Book Contract in Trump’s America 14 Oct 2017 It seems a bit too easy these days to begin any essay with a nod to how disturbed one is by the latest muddy geyser of Presidential discourse. As most…
history and memory… Napalm and Invasion: North Korean War Memory and British Sources 1 Jun 201716 Jul 2018 In a recent post on his black-and-white personal blog, the North Korea scholar B.R. Myers criticizes a recent ream of journalistic think pieces about the function of Korean War memory in 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…
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