history and memory… Pu Yi as Witness 12 Apr 201512 Apr 2015 In his 1946 testimony at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trials), Pu Yi, the former Emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, proved to be…
history and memory… Succession Politics and Commemorative Culture in North Korea: Seminar Paper at SOAS 5 Nov 2014 On 14 November, I will be delivering the following paper at the SOAS Centre for Korean Studies as part of their seminar series. Succession Politics and Commemorative Culture in North…
Borderlands… New Koguryo Research in Pyongyang, or, How to Revive a Historical Dispute on China’s National Day 3 Oct 2014 It doesn't take much skill at reading tea-leaves in Chinese or English to recognize that Kim Jong-un's letter of congratulations to Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, and Zhang Dejiang on the…
Environmental Politics in East Asia… Odyssey of Extortion: Chinese Press Coverage of the North Korean Boat Hijacking 25 Sep 2014 How is it that the world beyond Beijing and Pyongyang becomes aware of Chinese-North Korean fishing disputes in the Yellow Sea? North Korea remains silent on such matters, so information…
Borderlands… Comment on Haggard: The North Korean Restaurant Franchise 24 Jun 2014 Stephan Haggard is an endless source of extreme quantities of highly enriched North Korea information. His 'blog' posts (which are usually more like mini-journal articles, trenchantly done but lighter and…
Borderlands… In the Shadow of Jang Song-taek: Lecture in Washington, D.C. 20 Jun 2014 On Thursday, June 19, in Washington, D.C., I gave a lecture and participated in an extensive Q & A on the subject of post-purge North Korean Special Economic Zones in…
East Asian modernity… Pan-Asianism and the Japanese Wartime Empire 9 Jun 201412 Mar 2016 This past spring, upon the invitation of Peter Anderson, I gave a lecture to all of the first-year History students at Leeds University on the following topic, as part of…
Borderlands… Cambridge on the Tumen: A Transnational Workshop 7 Jun 20149 Jun 2014 A small group of scholars gathered in Cambridge on Friday, May 23 for a conference centered on the Tumen River and a critical sub- region of Northeast Asia which has seen…
Borderlands… Assessing the Jang Song-taek Effect: The View from Yanbian 30 May 201430 May 2014 I spent the month of April in northeast China, and had the opportunity to speak to several knowledgeable interlocutors about Sino-North Korean relations. In particular, the aftereffects of the purge…
Huanqiu Shibao… Two Essays on Chinese-North Korean Relations, and a Note on the Kim Jong-un Succession 19 Mar 2014 On March 10 and 12, I published short essays on Chinese-North Korean relations with Sino-NK and the China Policy Institute Blog of the University of Nottingham, and preceded these with…
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