China… Old Chapters, New Chapters: The Memory Wars in East Asia 17 Mar 201517 Mar 2015 From the very beginning of the so-called ‘post war,’ the territorial and temporal parameters of the memory wars between China and Japan were never drawn particularly cleanly. The war ended…
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…
German… Comparative War Crimes Trials, Holocaust Conference (Tacoma) 18 Mar 2010 This afternoon I gave a joint research/teaching presentation with Tomaz Jardim of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.: The presentation, which was well attended by a group full of ideas, made…
Sino-Japanese Relations Japanese on Trial in Beijing, September 1950 18 Aug 2009 Amid the highly-charged atmosphere of autumn 1950 in Beijing, seeking out any and all "enemies of the people," the city courts put a Japanese on trial for espionage. Almost fifty-nine…