Korean War Documenting Coastal Night Raids of North Korea, October 1950 20 Feb 201821 Feb 2018 Among the unique sources for Korean War history available in the United Kingdom, those associated with Labour MP Tom Driberg are particularly intriguing. I first became aware of Driberg as…
Chinese foreign policy… Poking the Wasp Nest: Shen Zhihua’s Controversial Speech on North Korea 15 Jul 201715 Jul 2017 Why should we care about scholars in China, or the complaints they have toward North Korea? Usually, readers take interest in Chinese scholarly debates because something specific and enticing has…
history and memory… Napalm and Invasion: North Korean War Memory and British Sources 1 Jun 201716 Jul 2018 In a recent post on his black-and-white personal blog, the North Korea scholar B.R. Myers criticizes a recent ream of journalistic think pieces about the function of Korean War memory in the…
China… Britain’s Global Cold War: Publications by Alexander Nicholas Shaw 6 Jan 20176 Jan 2017 One of the nice things about my job is that I get to work with some the most talented young historians in the field today. Alexander Shaw is one of those…
Korean War… The Bombs Kept Falling in the Wake of Hiroshima 8 Aug 20158 Aug 2015 In a Saturday essay for the Yorkshire Post, a very fine newspaper based in Leeds, I argue that there is more continuity than rupture in the historical legacy of the US…
history and memory… On Memorial Day, and Korea 24 May 2015 One day in May back in the 1990s, an old man stood about ten meters from a small flag on my father's grave in Minnesota and gave a speech about…
history and memory… Notes on the Sinchon Massacre 16 May 2015 The death of North Korean civilians at Sinchon is significant on a few levels. On the one hand, it calls our attention to the always fractious topic of war crimes…
Cultural Politics… Contentious Politics on the Korean Peninsula: Workshop at the University of Toronto 28 Feb 201528 Feb 2015 In 2013-14, I was awarded a research grant by the Academy of Korean Studies for which I was the principle investigator, and was joined by two colleagues from the Sino-NK research…
Korean War… China and Conflict on the Korean Peninsula: The Return of the Great Powers Conference in Leeds 21 Jun 20143 Jul 2014 On July 3, I'll be giving a paper at a conference of historians and policy makers at the University of Leeds on a subject near and dear to the hearts…
Korean War… Is China losing faith in North Korea? A Contribution to The Guardian 9 May 2014 Having been asked to put something together for the Guardian's new North Korea network, I did, and had the following short essay included as part of a very fine panel:…
