A food safety factory shutdown has Americans hunting for baby formula. Readying themselves for a covid-19 lockdown, Chinese in Beijing emptied store shelves. Emerging from lockdown, some in Shanghai are visiting well-provisioned markets. U.S.-China agricultural trade is booming, but many are still being left hungry. Food security, sustainability and safety remain issues.
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Yamamuro, Manchuria under Japanese Dominion, 2006
January 1, 2006
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Zhenping, Ambassadors from the Islands of Immortals: China-Japan Relationships in the Han-Tang Period, 2005.
January 1, 2005
Whalen Lai reviews the book for H-Buddhism, September, 2006.
Paul H. Kratoska, Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese History: Unknown Histories, 2005.
January 1, 2005
Bill Sewell reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
New Research on the Nanjing Incident
December 31, 2004
David Askew summarizes scholarship on what happened in Nanjing in December 1937.
Hilpert and Haak, Japan and China: Cooperation, Competition and Conflict, 2002
January 1, 2003
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan, March 2003.
Duara, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern. State and Society in East Asia Series, 2003.
January 1, 2003
Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom reviews the book for H-Asia, May 2005.
Elleman, Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question, 2002
December 31, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Gallicchio, The African American Encounter with Japan and China: Black Internationalism in Asia, 1895-1945, 2000
January 1, 2002
Roger Chapman reviews the book for H-US-Japan.
Austin and Harris, Japan and Greater China: Political Economy and Military Power in the Asian Century, 2001
January 1, 2001
Nicholas Sarantakes reviews the book for H-Diplo, credit H-Asia.
Brooks, Japan's Imperial Diplomacy: Consuls, Treaty Ports, and War in China 1895-1938, 2000
January 1, 2001
Charles Kolb reviews the book for H-Diplo.
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