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Lecturer in Chinese History // University of Leeds

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Chinese foreign policy…

Reading the Room in Tokyo: Taiwan, Japanese Parliamentarians, and the Truss Speech

20 Feb 2023
Former Prime Minister Liz Truss made an intervention in the UK foreign policy discourse with a speech focusing on China, delivered this past Friday in Tokyo. The full text of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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