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Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

Politics/Popular Culture/Republican/Social History/visual culture

Chinese Manhua and social criticism

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...

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...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/Politics

A Question of Credibility: The ASCK

Posted on May 25, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 20 Comments

Of late I have become depressed by what I see as a lack of credibility in some of the efforts to counter the flood of media reports and bombastic condemnations ...

General/Japan/Politics

Recipe for a New Japan? A Dash of Venus

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

The recent victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the Lower House, just two years after its surprise victory in the Upper House, is only slightly les...

Current/Recent Events/General/Japan/Political/Politics/平成

Soft and Fuzzy Historic Events

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Last time I lived in Japan, the LDP lost control of the Diet, and for a year and a half there was a Socialist Prime Minister in charge of an implausible coaliti...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Political/Politics/平成/昭和

ASPAC Blogging: Japan’s Political Present and Future

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My copanelists on Saturday were political scientists, and it was a good update for me on what what’s going on with Japan in the last ten years or so. R...

Japan/Politics

The Crazy Guy for Prime Minister, Please

Posted on September 6, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

OK, admittedly I am supremely unqualified to write a post about the current prime ministerial vacancy in Japan. I’m a historian who works on the 16th cent...

Academia/China-Japan/English/General/Japan/Memory/Occupation/Politics/US-Japan/War/昭和

Useful, Inconvenient History

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Bush cited John Dower regarding the potential for post-war democratization. Bush was using Dower’s Embracing Defeat to ridicule those who believ...

1970s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Labor/Politics

KTX female attendants – “contingent labour” fights back

Posted on July 16, 2007 by noja / 4 Comments

There was a time in Korean labour movement history in the 1970s when it were the female workers who actually led the most militant part of the struggle. The rea...

Academia/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Political/Politics/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Marginalizing Discourses at ASPAC

Posted on July 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For the conclusion to my ASPAC blogging, I want to talk about the panel which invited me to serve as moderator. It was a pleasure, and not just because three of...

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...

1945-1950/Korea/Law/Politics

Getting Out the Vote

Posted on March 2, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

In the weeks leading up to May 10th, 1948, the United States run interim Military Government in southern Korea was busy preparing the national assembly election...

Historiography/Korea/Nationalism/Politics

Is there such a thing as an innocent nation?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by Owen / 7 Comments

Moving away from the news reports for the moment, something a bit more speculative. The above question is one that crops up in my mind every now and then when I...

Historiography/Korea/Politics/Textbooks

Orthodoxy, or more revisionism? (History news round up II)

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Owen / 7 Comments

Time for part two of my history news round up. Another big history-related story toward the end of last year concerned a proposed new rightwing history textbook...

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