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…
China… Mistranslating Mao in Chengdu, 1958 7 Jan 20191 Jul 2021 [Updated on 1 July 2021] The question of Mao Zedong’s personal role in triggering massive famine in China during the Great Leap Forward (1958-61) brings us into an important debate.…
China… Revisiting Mao’s Role in the ‘Three-Anti’ Campaign 3 Nov 20163 Nov 2016 If there is one thing that appears certain about contemporary China and Chinese historical studies, it is that Mao's role in sparking and sustaining violence during the period of his…
Chinese foreign policy… Reading and Writing Chinese-North Korean Cold War History 14 Jul 2016 Tian Wuxiong, a Ph.D. candidate in modern history at Peking University, has produced a nicely nuanced view of the withdrawal of the Chinese People’s Volunteers from the North. Tian has a…
Chinese communist party… Mao Zedong as a Father: Nianpu Notes from January 1951 19 Mar 201419 Mar 2014 In the six big volumes of Mao Zedong Nianpu (1949-1976) published in Beijing this past December 2013, a number of new texts can be located, and minor mysteries solved. I was fortunate…
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