China… Contested Era, Blossoming Memory: Reconsidering the Early 1950s in the Present PRC 1 Nov 201014 Feb 2014 In walking around Chinese book markets, perusing Chinese newspapers, talking to Chinese scholars and intellectuals, and just plain thinking here in the PRC, the remarkable fact emerges of the enormous…
Cultural Politics… On Potsdam’s “Hiroshima Plaza” 7 Aug 20107 Aug 2010 In describing German responses to the Hiroshima commemoration yesterday, I made reference to an editorial which appeared in a major Berlin daily paper last June 30: ...probably the most interesting…
EU-East Asia relations… Creating the Glass Man: Hiroshima Anniversary 6 Aug 20107 Aug 2010 Today is the 65th anniversary of the American atomic attack on the southern Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. For the first time, the U.S. government is sending a representative…
Sino-Japanese Relations… Sino-Japanese Notes: Incident in Hiroshima 19 Oct 200921 Oct 2009 Chinese media are reporting on an incident with strange resonance in Hiroshima, where on October 18, at about half past midnight Beijing time, a 37-year-old Japanese man attacked the Peace…
