China… Wartime History and Beijing’s Response to the New Defence Minister in Tokyo 5 Aug 20165 Aug 2016 In the wake of the Upper House elections in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed a reshuffling of his cabinet. As described by Japan hand Michael Cucek, it was…
Uncategorized Recent Work on Sino-North Korean Relations, History, and Chinese Foreign Policy 14 Oct 201516 Oct 2015 The arbitrarily configured 70th anniversary of the Korean Workers' Party, and the presence of a high-level Chinese delegation in Pyongyang, created a need for some commentary and context. This post…
China… On the ‘Cairo Declaration’ Fiasco 18 Aug 2015 While the tendency of the CCP to insert itself at the main junctures of Chinese history in the 20th century is anything but new, there has been an increasing alignment…
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…
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… The Shenyang Trials of 1956: Presenting the Resurrection of Defeat in Heidelberg 1 Oct 2014 The University of Heidelberg will be hosting a conference later this month on post-1945 war crimes trials in East Asia, at which I will be presenting. An abstract and bio…
Uncategorized New Scholarship on China’s War Against Japan: Rana Mitter and the Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University Belfast 28 Feb 2014 Rana Mitter is among the most dynamic, productive, and visible historians working on East Asia in the UK today. Dr. Mitter will be delivering a series of uniquely prestigious and…
Sino-Japanese Relations Sino-Japanese Strife and Accomodation: An Academic View 10 Oct 2012 Sometimes through all the contemporary hyperventilating, it can be considered an almost extreme position to look for historical context that lies apart from the mainstream narrative of eternal, almost existential,…
East Asian modernity… Post-Soulevement 17 Mar 2011 The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that thrashed the northeastern Japanese coast has generated a great deal of thinking from me, not much of it coherent or of use to readers. …
Uncategorized Germ Warfare and Panda Diplomacy in Tokyo: Unit 731 Excavations 23 Feb 2011 This is a cross-post from my Japanese War Crimes blog. -- AC Unit 731, the bacteriological warfare research wing of the Kanto Army in Manchuria, has been discussed in Japan…
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