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…
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…
Japan… On History and the “Comfort Women” Debate 12 Oct 201512 Oct 2015 As illuminated by recent anniversaries and commemorations, history is both a malleable plaything and an obsessive object of dispute for states in Northeast Asia. In Tokyo, Abe Shinzo and his Liberal Democratic Party rework histories of colonial expansion into halcyon inspiration…
American Foreign Policy… Gen. Douglas MacArthur as 2016 GOP Candidate 22 Jul 201523 Dec 2015 Amid the current field of Republicans vying for the Party's nod in 2016, how would General Douglas MacArthur fare? While MacArthur ended his career without having given a full run for…
American Foreign Policy… Atrocities, Insults, and “Jeep Girls”: Depictions of the U.S. Military in China, 1945-1949 13 May 201514 May 2015 Controversy continues to surround various military occupations in East Asia in the 20th century. Specifically, the connection between military occupation and sex work carried out by women the occupied countries remains…
Korean War… Koreans and Military Training in Japan, 1947-48 16 Apr 2015 Yesterday I spent a couple of hours in a single box at the US National Archives -- otherwise known as RG331 (Allied Operational and Occupation HQ), SCAP Government Section, Administrative Division,…
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…
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