China

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• 5/24/2020
  

  Pandemic, Pandering and Prejudice: Trump's Effort to Weaponize Xenophobia

  by James D. Zirin

  Blaming China and threatening reprisals is not going to save any lives. It won’t open up the country any sooner. It won’t create a single job. But it might just get Trump re-elected--at least he thinks so.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/21/2020
  

  Is This the End of Hong Kong?

  Sweeping new laws, justified by claims for security amid political protests, threaten to eliminate independence from Beijing in Hong Kong's political and civil life. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Who Can Learn From Taiwan? Apparently not WHO

  by Keith Clark

  The World Health Organization is unable to effectively learn from Taiwan's response to COVID-19 because the agency adheres to a "One China" policy that doesn't recognize both the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. 

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• 5/17/2020
  

  Hong Kong Apocalypses: Teaching the Recent Past and the Speculative Future

  by James Carter

  The chaos of Hong Kong's recent protests and the Coronavirus unsettled a historian's sense of the boundary between past and present. Perhaps we understand either only through the mirror of the other. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  5/12/2020
  

  Shanghai’s Past, Hong Kong’s Future

  by James Carter and Jeffrey Wasserstrom

  The story of Hong Kong and Shanghai isn’t simply a defining story of the last two centuries of Chinese history. It is really the story of all world cities around the globe today: how they thrive and how they decline.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/10/2020
  

  Can the Democrats Avoid Trump’s China Trap?

  by Rachel Esplin Odell and Stephen Wertheim

  We stand on the brink of an even more destructive and less justifiable mistake than the post-Sept. 11 crusade.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  The Real Thucydides Trap

  by Waller R. Newell

  Classical histories are in vogue as explanations for the Coronavirus-fueled tensions between the United States and China. A political science scholar argues that an influential theory gets Thucydides backwards.

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• 5/10/2020
  

  Turn out the Lights: When the Last American Diplomats Fled China

  by Joe Renouard

  The U.S. diplomats who left China in 1949 left oral histories that are now archived at the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. Their stories warning how how misunderstandings, misplaced hopes, and missed opportunities can poison relations between great powers.

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• SOURCE: The New Daily
  4/27/2020
  

  On this Day: Chinese Students March in Pro-Democracy Tiananmen Square Protests

  On this day in 1989, enormous crowds of Chinese students and new-found supporters marched through major cities in China to fight for democratic freedoms.

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  4/4/2020
  

  Will Coronavirus Change How We Think About Climate Change?

  Harvard historian Naomi Oreskes believes the coronavirus may be a 'dress rehearsal' for the climate catastrophe looming on the horizon – and suggests why people want to deny both threats.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/29/2020
  

  The Surprising History of the Wildlife Trade That May Have Sparked the Coronavirus

  For the past 40 years, the Chinese government has promoted the wild animal trade as a form of rural economic development.

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• 3/27/2020
  

  "Rogue" Manufacturing in China: Past and Present

  by Eugenia Lean

  As China’s economic power grows, global intellectual property might end up looking more and more like the Chinese tradition of shanzhai in the future.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/24/2020
  

  Trump Is Inciting a Coronavirus Culture War to Save Himself

  by Adam Serwer

  The president’s attempt to racialize the pandemic is a cover-up of the fact that he trusted false reassurances from Beijing.

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• 1/19/20
  

  The World is Losing another Historic Generation

  by Robert Mark Spaulding

  We cannot prevent the passing away of China’s last generation from the pre-communist era, but we can do our part in helping to preserve the ancient culture they knew, so that it does not vanish completely with them. 

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• SOURCE: Tokyo Review
  12/30/19
  

  Why Did China Detain a Japanese History Professor?

  The China-related story that most agitated the minds of Japanese academia this fall was undoubtedly the arrest of Iwatani Nobu, a professor of modern Chinese history at Hokkaidō University, detained in early September on suspicion of spying during a trip to Beijing.

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• 12/22/19
  

  China Needs to Change Strategy After Hong Kong Elections

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  With the depth of dissatisfaction in Hong Kong now made patently clear at the ballot box, China and Xi now face a difficult choice. Will it double down on repression or listen to the people and choose a new course that will require some compromise?

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• SOURCE: The Diplomat
  12/2/19
  

  China Releases History Professor, But Travel Concerns Persist

  A recent detention has implications for China-Japan relations.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/2/2019
  

  China Isn’t the Soviet Union. Confusing the Two Is Dangerous.

  by Melvyn P. Leffler

  An unusual confluence of events World War II led to America’s bitter rivalry with the U.S.S.R. That pattern is not repeating.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Between the Lines of the Xinjiang Papers

  by James A. Millward

  The Chinese Communist Party is devouring its own and cutting itself off from reality.

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• 12/22/19
  

  Subsidies Can't Solve Farmers' Trade War Losses

  by Jared Levinson

  Subsidies during the Great Depression and in the current trade war.