China… Sino-Japanese Relations: The Sun Sets on a Bad Year 31 Dec 2010 The end of the calendar year brings closure, of a sort, to the news cycle. The (disorderly and American-style) marketing of mayhem and chaos awaits a new year. To remark,…
Sino-German Relations… By All Means, Spend the Day in Nanking 22 Dec 201022 Dec 2010 December 13 was the anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, so of course I had to spend Dec. 11 and 12 in the city, touring the big memorial and the associated…
Sino-Japanese Relations Sino-Japanese Strife 22 Sep 2010 A few years back, I had a rather conspiratorial lunch with a young Chinese statesman-scholar in the Beijing City Government. As the clean light of an early summer afternoon poured…
East Asian modernity… This is What Sino-Japanese Friendship Looks Like 9 Jun 2010 Congratulations, Japan, and thank you Toyota. [And thanks to Singularity Hub and the tongue-twisting Daily Discovegestionary Babel for the links.] You have now officially captured the hearts of the Chinese…
Chinese nationalism… Competing Visions of Japan on the Huanqiu BBS 7 Apr 2010 Huanqiu Shibao's BBS world isn't necessarily representative of the upper crust of netizen opinion, but, since, as China Digital Times reminds us, the internet is becoming increasingly Chinese, it behooves…
Chinese nationalism… Manchurian Brides in Japan 28 Mar 2010 Yes, I'm aware that the title of this post is somewhat retro, and would be happy to change it if someone can convince me that this post on the Huanqiu…
Sino-Japanese Relations… Sino-Japanese Contrasts 20 Mar 2010 Bifurcated views of Japan within the PRC (and the global Chinese diaspora) are nothing new, but two new Huanqiu photo galleries are particularly striking in this regard. The first shows…
Chinese communist party… Sino-Japanese Apprehension 28 Feb 201028 Feb 2010 At the Beijing airport, border security personnel yesterday refused the entry into the PRC of Japanese scholar Naoko Mizutani on the grounds that she was a supporter of Uighur indepdence. …
history and memory… Unit 731: Korean Victims and World Heritage 19 Feb 201019 Feb 2010 As anyone who has read Sheldon Harris' essential book Factories of Death can tell you, the actions of the Japanese Kwantung Army's "Water Purification Unit" 731 based outside of Harbin…
American Foreign Policy… Stories 10 Feb 201010 Feb 2010 Everybody loves stories, facts mixed in with dangerous interpretive tinctures. But today is a day of no comment, of comet-less commas, of post-somatic traumas which embalm us with twisted tatoos…
Adam Cathcart 