China… Toward a Transnational History of Manchuria and the Korean War [Updated] 13 Nov 20142 Mar 2015 In November 2014, I presented 'Toward a Transnational History of Manchuria and the Korean War, 1945-1955' at the Institute of Historical Research, as part of the Comparative Histories of Asia seminar…
Uncategorized Discussing the Korean War at AAS 2014 27 Sep 201327 Sep 2013 My panel, entitled "Utilizing the Captured Documents: New Perspectives on Society, Institutions, and Foreign Relations in Revolutionary and Wartime North Korea, 1945-1953," has been accepted for the March 27-30 2014…
East Asian modernity Montage: Climate Change in China, Cold War Northeast Asia, and Occupy Seattle 20 Nov 201120 Nov 2011 Long and uninterrupted arcs of time being so few, why not describe ways in which readers might garner more than two hours of potential edification? 1. U.S.-China Cooperation vs. Climate…
Korean War Divided Labor: Two Classic Essays by Bruce Cumings 7 Oct 2011 Every so often I return to the two immense volumes of Bruce Cumings' Origins of the Korean War, marvelling at their girth and intricacy. In my view, these works are…
Korean War… Bruce Cumings Strikes North of the 47th Parallel: Seattle, May 4 5 May 20106 May 2010 How fitting is the congruity? That not a score of hours after Chicago's top historian swooped down out of the sky to deliver missives of exhortation to heed the still-trembling…
Cultural Politics… Koreanist Schisms: Myers, Cumings, Hitchens(?) 3 Feb 201012 Sep 2018 Now that even Christopher Hitchens is writing about the new North Korea book by Brian Myers, people are paying attention. For once, at least, new arguments are being presented in…
EU-East Asia relations… French Press: East Asia Tropes 12 Jan 2010 Le Monde Diplomatique （法国世界外交论衡月刊）is one of the more thoughtful periodicals from the French perspective on foreign affairs, available (partially) here in English (中文版打这儿). The compendium of foreign affairs essays has a good…
US-North Korea relations Bruce Cumings on US-North Korea Relations 11 Aug 2009 Somehow I missed this video of Bruce Cumings speaking to US-North Korea relations on the program Democracy Now!. Although the interview with the foremost historian and fearsomely intelligent critic of U.S. policy…
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