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… Sino-Japanese Sehnsucht 7 Jul 2011 This post is my own small commemoration of July 7 in the Chinese context; it is a bit of a centaur in that the first half is rather traditional scholar-style…
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…
French… Le mort de Mathieu [I] 28 May 2009 So much of Sartre's Le Mort dans l'Âme is pessimistic, full of spite for the French army and regime, the very opposite of United Front literature in wartime China. Yet,…
Cultural Politics… Sartre / Cultures of Defeat 17 May 200917 May 2009 One of the issues with which I am grappling as a scholar concerns the idea of a defeated country in war, and the tenacity of psychologies of resistance and defeat…
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