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Books/China/Chinese/Civil War/English/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

7/7 and a Wartime Dictionary

Posted on July 7, 2005 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

While I’m spending the summer studying Korean in Seoul, one of the books I brought with me for some recreational reading is a Chinese wartime dictionary (...

Books/China/Diplomacy/Economics/General

Grain supply and military logistics in 18th century China.

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Reading Perdue’s China Marches West I was struck by how much historians are constrained by our sources and how we strain against them. The book itself (which is...

Books/China/Economics/Education/English/General/Historiography/Post-Mao/Social History

One-Child Policy as History

Posted on June 22, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 10 Comments

I just finished teaching 20th century China, and the three biggest issues in the last section of the course were clearly economic growth, political liberalizati...