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Lecturer in Chinese History // University of Leeds

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Category: US-Japan relations

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…
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…
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…
history and memory…

Last Call for Abe Shinzo Congressional Speech Op-eds

17 May 2015
The Stimson Center's Yuki Tatsumi threw down the gauntlet in The Diplomat on May 7 in a piece pointedly entitled 'Stop Obsessing over Abe's Congressional Speech.' The conclusion read as follows: Continuing…
China…

Chinese Journalists and the U.S. Occupation of Japan

5 Apr 20156 Apr 2015
At the conclusion of eight years of Japanese occupation of nearly every major city in the Republic of China, Chinese journalists were prepared not just to celebrate victory but to…
history and memory…

Lisa Yoneyama in Toronto; Readings on the ‘Comfort Women’ System

7 Mar 20157 Mar 2015
Yesterday I had a chance to meet briefly in Toronto with Lisa Yoneyama, who is one of the most prevalent scholars working today on issues of transnational war memory politics…
Japan…

On Heartbreak, and Bix on Hirohito

30 Sep 201430 Sep 2014
In our culture of oversharing and social media, there is such an excess of verbiage that the words 'must read' or 'essential' have basically lost their meaning. The same is…
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…
American Foreign Policy…

Yuanhai Fangwei [远海防卫]: Observing China’s Navy

25 Aug 2011
Back in the American defense belt of Orange County, I'm reading Kissinger and reflecting on the extensive annual report to Congress from the Pentagon regarding Chinese military capabilities.  The full…
history and memory…

“…and each of these, you could pursue very far…” // Open-Source Teaching

23 May 2011
Today, I am inaugurating a multi-year project whereby a great deal more of my pedagogical artifacts -- my teaching materials -- go online. For instance, I begin one course on…

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