China… Writing the Early Postwar: White and Jacoby’s _Thunder Out of China_ 2 Aug 20163 Aug 2016 Foreign correspondents are crucial conduits for insights into contemporary East Asia. As I've learned from my conversations with various bureau chiefs, stringers, and greybeards in the region, there are few…
history and memory… Xi Jinping’s Tripod: Updating the National Humiliation Narrative in Nanjing 22 Dec 2014 This essay was originally published at the China Policy Institute Blog at the University of Nottingham on 15 December 2014, under the title 'Xi Jinping’s Nanking Massacre Commemoration and China’s Anti-Japanese Calendar,'…
Chinese communist party… Ambiguous Archipelago: Japan in the Chinese Press Today 29 Dec 200929 Dec 2009 Chinese netizens may be lavishing more attention on the South Korean pop star Rain (who, apparently, seeks nothing less than to abscond with Confucius' bones to Seoul), but the Sino-Japanese…
Chinese communist party… Chinese Heir Apparent in Japan 15 Dec 200915 Dec 2009 Xi Jinping, the current consensus candidate to succeed Hu Jintao in about three years' time, is on a tour of Japan. He has met, not without excitement or a bit…
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.…
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…
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…
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