German-Japanese Relations… Nanking Film Trailers 22 Oct 2012 Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman, "Nanking," 2007, a documentary interspersing authentic historical footage with reenacted readings of journals, diaries, and letters by Westerners who were in the Chinese capital city…
Chinese nationalism… California Swoop: Xinjiang Scholars and Hoover Papers 26 Aug 2011 I'm on the California northward swoop this afternoon, having spent yesterday at University of California-Irvine and today, thanks to a 3 a.m. start in Los Angeles and monumentally placid weather…
Uncategorized Archives Spelunk 15 Apr 201015 Apr 2010 I am going to be thick in some archives for the next couple of days and don't anticipate posting. In the meantime, it would take someone really especially hard-headed not…
German… German Sources on the War of Resistance/Rape of Nanking 11 Nov 200911 Nov 2009 What do you know about German sources on the Rape of Nanking and the War of Resistance besides the diary of John Rabe? If you're like most people, not much.…
China Monday Bach, and a Post-Iris Chang Meditation 26 Oct 2009 C-major Bach Bourée -- Monday Music Pentatonic Meditation (Post-Iris Chang)
Sino-Japanese Relations… Iris Chang and the Politics of Emotional Authenticity 25 Oct 2009 Not particularly as a matter of choice, of late I have been thinking about the aftermath. War, genocide, and mass violence are giant forces which have thrown up immense…
Chinese nationalism… Further Assessment of the Iris Chang Papers 24 Oct 2009 Iris Chang was an intensely productive, in her words, "almost obsessive" individual, and these qualities shine through in her private papers. After publishing the book The Rape of Nanking, in…
China… Impressions of the Iris Chang Papers 24 Oct 200925 Oct 2009 It's been a whirlwind, head-bending kind of two-day sprint through a minor swath of the Hoover Institute Archives at Stanford University. Iris Chang wasn't my only target -- thanks to…
Cultural Politics… Blogging from San Francisco 21 Oct 200921 Oct 2009 For the next few days, I'm in San Francisco (旧金山) primarily taking care of some research at Stanford University. Specifically, I am digging into the Iris Chang papers at the…
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