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New Publication Up: China Policy Institute Blog (Nottingham)
My new essay focusing on Wu Dawei’s diplomacy in North Korea, entitled “Tuning Out Beijing’s Six-Party Drumbeat,” was posted today at the CPI blog.
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Hong Kong, the UK, and Occupy Central
I spoke this evening to Phil Williams of BBC 5 Live about the protests in Hong Kong. While my brain was more than a bit muddled after a very full day of university lecturing (the first proper day of...
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The Shenyang Trials of 1956: Presenting the Resurrection of Defeat in Heidelberg
The University of Heidelberg will be hosting a conference later this month on post-1945 war crimes trials in East Asia, at which I will be presenting. An abstract and bio follow: The Shenyang Trials of...
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Rethinking Mao’s Role in the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries
What are the origins of state terror? How do we disentangle the consolidation of Mao’s personalism and the consolidation of the general power of the CCP? How do we treat statistics? And as to the...
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On Reincarnation
As everyone knows, the Chinese Communist Party is fully committed to reincarnating itself as the Qing dynasty, but with more aircraft carriers and a Communist Dalai Lama who tells choking city dwellers...
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Atrocities, Insults, and “Jeep Girls”: Depictions of the U.S. Military in...
Controversy continues to surround various military occupations in East Asia in the 20th century. Specifically, the connection between military occupation and sex work carried out by women the occupied...
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Unrest in the Southwest: The Linshui Protests in Historical Perspective
Unrest in the Southwest: The Linshui Protests in Historical Perspective by Adam Cathcart and Li Wankun, University of Leeds for University of Nottingham China Policy Institute Blog Due to the outbreak...
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Regional Government and Political Integration in Southwest China, 1949-1954:...
Dorothy J. Solinger: Regional Government and Political Integration in Southwest China, 1949-1954: A Case Study. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. Review by Li Wankun, University of Leeds...
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Will China Disintegrate? A British Assessment in 1947
On either side of an energizing North Korea public event I did this past Friday in London, I make two treks out to the UK’s National Archives in Kew Gardens. My goal was explore Foreign Office papers...
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On the ‘Cairo Declaration’ Fiasco
While the tendency of the CCP to insert itself at the main junctures of Chinese history in the 20th century is anything but new, there has been an increasing alignment with the earlier Republic of...
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Trains, Trade, and Corruption: Dandong Data Points
While analysts were surely right to parse the dynamics of the 3 September parade in Beijing, the work of assessing the state of Chinese-North Korean relations needs to go well beyond seating charts,...
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Journalist Expulsions and Beijing’s Counterterrorism Narrative
2015 was supposedly a triumphant year for the Chinese Communist Party, but the CCP seemed determined to end the year on a landslide of insecurity with respect to the foreign journalists within its...
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Comrades in Crisis: Chinese-North Korean Relations in War, Occupation, and Today
On 25 March 2016, I will present the following paper at Yonsei University in Seoul, thanks to an invitation from John Delury and the Yonsei Underwood International College International Studies...
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Hyun Ok Park’s History of the Cultural Revolution in Yanbian
This review was originally published at SinoNK.com, as part of a roundtable including contributions from Andre Schmid (University of Toronto) and Robert Winstanley-Chesters (Australian National...
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Bypassing Beijing? North Korean Foreign Relations in April and May
Responding with appropriately prepared shock to the 15 April rocket launch, assessing the crescendo to the big Party Congress in early May in Pyongyang, adding to the noise over the defection of “the...
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China and the North Korean Workers’ Party Congress
The following is the full text of an interview I recently gave, excerpts from which will be appearing in Liberation, the quintessential Parisian daily. Q. Do we expect any senior CCP official from...
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Grain Politics and Sichuan in the 1950s
There are few lines of historical investigation more fraught in China than those concerned with food, security, and famine in Sichuan province in the 1950s. But where to start the investigation? Which...
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Wartime History and Beijing’s Response to the New Defence Minister in Tokyo
In the wake of the Upper House elections in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has completed a reshuffling of his cabinet. As described by Japan hand Michael Cucek, it was not a particularly inspiring...
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Corruption, Sanctions, Dandong
In two essays which I anticipate publishing this week (in NK News and CPI Analysis, respectively), I question the connection between Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption activity and the implementation of...
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Youth Work and Class Education under Kim Jong-un
The following is my original intro to a piece I just published in Seoul after some substantial carving down. In other words, the intro was cut, but I think it still stands up, so now you can read that...
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