history and memory… Pu Yi as Witness 12 Apr 201512 Apr 2015 In his 1946 testimony at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (the Tokyo Trials), Pu Yi, the former Emperor of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, proved to be…
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…
Cultural Politics… On Potsdam’s “Hiroshima Plaza” 7 Aug 20107 Aug 2010 In describing German responses to the Hiroshima commemoration yesterday, I made reference to an editorial which appeared in a major Berlin daily paper last June 30: ...probably the most interesting…
American Foreign Policy… U.S. Bludgeoning of North Korea, War Crimes, and the Sinchon Incident 5 May 20095 May 2009 Oh, the wonders of Air Force history! Last night, at the end of a session directing Japanese war crimes research at the University of Washington Suzzalo library (amid epic microfilms…
Adam Cathcart 