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Category: 1980s

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Economics/Teaching

Teaching export-led growth

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach about export-led growth in Asia? Like to talk about the process of oh, say China, gradually exporting increasing amounts of stuff to the U.S., and ...

1980s/globalization/India/Nationalism/World

The Right Turn

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Basharat Peer interview with Pankaj Mishra on China and India is worth reading, and not that long, but I was particularly struck by this bit towards the end: &#...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

1980s/English/Korea/Memory/Politics

Police Torture in Egypt and 1987 Korea

Posted on February 7, 2011 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

Historical comparisons can open up new exciting ways of understanding events that have become trapped by a dominant narrative, or proposing solutions to pressin...

1980s/Contemporary/Korea/Memory/Politics

The June struggle in the British newspapers

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Owen / 3 Comments

Over at my own blog I’ve decided to mark the anniversary of the events of June 1987 in South Korea by following contemporary reports from the British news...

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