Cultural Politics… Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing, and Vietnam in 1965 1 Mar 2022 On 2 June 1965, Mao Zedong arrived in Hangzhou, where he read a journal article which interested him greatly. Entitled “Looking at US Expansion of the Vietnam War from the…
Beijing… Robert Jay Lifton, Revolutionary Immortality, and the Chinese Cultural Revolution 12 Jan 201913 Jan 2021 In 1954, an American psychologist travelled to Hong Kong, where he carried out extensive interviews with both Chinese and foreign survivors of captivity, solitary confinement, and torture psychological variety in…
Sino-North Korean relations Viewing the DPRK’s 66th Anniversary through a Chinese Lens 22 Sep 201422 Sep 2014 The realities of daily life in North Korea are, at best, elusive for the outsider to grasp. A lack of personal experiences often interfere. Those of us who have never…
Borderlands… Tao Zhu and the Guangxi Bandits: Mao Zedong Nianpu Notes, Jan. 1951 (3) 22 Mar 201424 Oct 2018 Whereas January 1950 had found the Chinese leader stuck in Moscow, January 1951 found Mao Zedong at the storm center in Beijing. Mere months after founding the new People's Republic…
Chinese nationalism… Competing Visions of Japan on the Huanqiu BBS 7 Apr 2010 Huanqiu Shibao's BBS world isn't necessarily representative of the upper crust of netizen opinion, but, since, as China Digital Times reminds us, the internet is becoming increasingly Chinese, it behooves…
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