EU-East Asia relations… Angela Merkel and Japan’s Wartime Past 11 Mar 201511 Mar 2015 The German Chancellor was in Tokyo for a couple of eventful days. Although Merkel sees Abe Shinzo regularly, she noted before leaving that she has not been to Japan, the country that…
Art… “Hitler’s Stomach” in Beijing: A Review 28 Jun 201114 Feb 2014 Today in Berlin, I was cruising through the Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung, the businessman's preferred paper, for German response to the Wen Jiabao visit when I ran across an article so completely…
China… Contested Era, Blossoming Memory: Reconsidering the Early 1950s in the Present PRC 1 Nov 201014 Feb 2014 In walking around Chinese book markets, perusing Chinese newspapers, talking to Chinese scholars and intellectuals, and just plain thinking here in the PRC, the remarkable fact emerges of the enormous…
EU-East Asia relations… Creating the Glass Man: Hiroshima Anniversary 6 Aug 20107 Aug 2010 Today is the 65th anniversary of the American atomic attack on the southern Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945. For the first time, the U.S. government is sending a representative…
East Asian modernity… Postwar Meditation: Berlin/Tokyo 18 Sep 200919 Sep 2009 Postwar is post-nothing: it is the beginning of something. "Ach!", trained instinct cries, "but what of 'tragen', to carry heavy burdens, of its simple past trug? Do not ponderous and…
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