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Category: Civil War

Articles/China/Civil War/English/General/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Taiwan

Revising history: Brief notes

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Quick hits: It’s one of the most difficult periods of modern history to teach, and I love using primary sources for the tough times, so I’m always g...

Books/China/China-U.S./Civil War/English/Republican

A sinologist in Iraq

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Graham Peck’s Two Kinds of Time has been re-issued. This is good news for everyone, and especially for those of us who got a copy for Christmas. (Thanks S...

China/Civil War/Libraries/Newspapers/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Newspaper Digitization at Shandong Provincial Library

Posted on November 17, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

I am currently spending my days at a microfilm machine in the basement of Shandong Provincial library, looking through old wartime newspapers from occupied and ...

China/China-Japan/Civil War/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/Taiwan

Yang Tianshi on the Chiang Kai-Shek Diaries

Posted on December 31, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Jonathan Benda reports on a talk by the historian Yang Tianshi on Chiang Kai-Shek’s diaries given at Tunghai university in Taiwan. Professor Yang is a ver...

China/Civil War/English/Post-Mao/Public History/Republican

"President" Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

So, what is the current status of Chiang Kai-shek in China? He is the most troublesome of the Republican era-figures for the mainland to figure out. Anyone who ...

China/Civil War/General/Poetry/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Voice of the people

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One nice thing about Chinese history is that there is a long history of recording popular songs. From the Han at least it was assumed that popular songs reflect...

China/Civil War/General/Nationalism/Republican/Social History

My Great Helmsman is Charlton Heston

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

In an interesting article on the gun trade and state control of weapons in Guangdong province in the 1920’s Qiu Jie and He Wenping make an interesting argument ...

Books/China/Civil War/English/General/Historiography/Nationalism/War

Long March Revision: Diminishing Sources

Posted on May 23, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Christian Science Monitor has a substantial article about Sun Shuyan’s new book Long March (previously noted here), leadng this time with the book’s...

Articles/Books/China/Civil War/English/Historiography/War

Women on the Long March

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Natalie Bennett reports that a new oral history investigation of the Long March experience is being published. Over 10 months, travelling mainly by bus and trai...

China/China-Japan/Civil War/Diplomacy/English/Japan/Taiwan/War

51st State?

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From a formal legal standpoint, the United States never ceded possession of Taiwan [via Simon World], which it took from Japan in 1945, to the Nationalist gover...

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 (...

China/Civil War/English/General/War

Chinese Civil War Mystery

Posted on June 11, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’ll do a China-relevant self-introduction later (you can read my Frog in a Well: Japan self-introduction, if you’re really curious) , but I just ra...

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