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,'…
Sino-Japanese Relations Talking Sino-Japanese Relations in Leeds 22 Jan 2014 My colleague Caroline Rose has been very generous in inviting me to join two conferences of the Sino-Japanese Research Network in the past year. With a focus on contemporary history…
Chinese nationalism… 15 Questions re: Jeff Kingston’s Japan Focus Essay (2008) Regarding the Nanking Massacre 30 Oct 2012 Dr. Jeff Kingston is a historian of contemporary Japan who occupies a number of important positions at Temple University's Japan campus. In 2008, he published the following essay on the…