China… Writing the Early Postwar: White and Jacoby’s _Thunder Out of China_ 2 Aug 20163 Aug 2016 Foreign correspondents are crucial conduits for insights into contemporary East Asia. As I've learned from my conversations with various bureau chiefs, stringers, and greybeards in the region, there are few…
China… Will China Disintegrate? A British Assessment in 1947 6 Jul 20156 Jul 2015 On either side of an energizing North Korea public event I did this past Friday in London, I make two treks out to the UK's National Archives in Kew Gardens. My…
China… Changchun Famine in the News 2 Oct 2009 Andrew Jacobs has a gutsy piece in the New York Times on the Changchun famine of 1948, caused by the communist encirclement of that city in the frigid and deadly…