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Category: Manchuria

Borderlands…

From Liberation to the Great Leap Forward: Ethnic Koreans and Assimilation in Northeast China, 1945-1962

1 Jul 2021
Today I completed a new research article on the broad subject of Maoism's impact on ethnic Koreans in northeast China. The work is slated to appear next year as a…
Borderlands…

On the Opening of the Ji’an-Manp’o Trade Port

20 Apr 201920 Apr 2019
As a small Chinese city on the Yalu River, Ji'an (集安) is an often-overlooked juncture for Chinese-North Korean movement of supplies and people. It was the main conduit for the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
China…

Revisiting Mao’s Role in the ‘Three-Anti’ Campaign

3 Nov 20163 Nov 2016
If there is one thing that appears certain about contemporary China and Chinese historical studies, it is that Mao's role in sparking and sustaining violence during the period of his…
Borderlands…

Comrades in Crisis: Chinese-North Korean Relations in War, Occupation, and Today

10 Mar 201624 Mar 2016
On 25 March 2016, I will present the following paper at Yonsei University in Seoul, thanks to an invitation from John Delury and the Yonsei Underwood International College International Studies…
China…

The Perils of Reporting on North Korean Workers in China

12 Jun 201513 Jun 2015
On the last day of the wondrous month of May, Brice Pedroletti, the Le Monde correspondent in China, was in the city of Tumen, along the northernmost point of the…
Borderlands…

Bubble at the Summit: Insecurities in Kim Jong-un Itineraries

23 Apr 2015
Is Kim Jong-un staggeringly confident, or do his behaviours and travel itineraries betray personal neuroses and structural fears? The short answer is that it depends on the issue under discussion. Let's…

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