H&M's statements about forced labor in Xinjiang have angered both Chinese and human rights groups.
memory
Miller, Wronged by Empire: Post-Imperial Ideology and Foreign Policy in India and China (August 21, 2013)
Manjari Chatterjee Miller's book was reviewed by Manjeet Pardesi for H-Diplo in February 2014 and is published here under Creative Commons license.
Zheng Wang, Never Forget National Humiliation, 2012
Zachary Fredman reviews the book for H-Diplo, December 2012.
Wang, Never Forget National Humiliation: History Memory in Chinese Politics and Foreign Relations, 2012
Zheng Wang's book was reviewed by Zachary Fredman for H-Diplo in December 2012 and is included here via Creative Commons license.
Gallicchio, The Unpredictability of the Past: Memories of the Asia-Pacific War in U.S.-East Asian Relations, 2007
Akiko Takenaka reviews the book for H-Japan.
New Research on the Nanjing Incident
David Askew summarizes scholarship on what happened in Nanjing in December 1937.
Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of our Party since the Founding of the People’s Republic of China,” June 27, 1981
This resolution repudiated “ultraleftism” as seen in Mao-led movements including the Cultural Revolution.
Heritage and Ancestors: The Politics of Chinese Museums and Historical Memory
The University of California, Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies will host a discussion with Magnus Fiskesjö on the developments of Chinese museums and their relation to historical memory.
Screening: Red Amnesia
University of Michigan Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies hosts a screening of Red Amnesia.
Desperately Seeking Nana Hsu
UCLA Center for Chinese Studies hosts a talk with Joseph Allen on the literary remnants of the Nationalist retreat to Taiwan.
China Humanities Seminar: How Should We Use the Chinese Past?: Non-Western Histories of Thought in a Global Age
Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies hosts a talk with Leigh Jenco on non-Western thought in a historical context.
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The USC U.S.-China Institute hosted a panel discussion to look at the biases and discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans, the resistance to it, the role America’s relationships with Asia play in shaping perceptions, and trends in Asian American political participation.
Events
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for an online panel discussion on the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast and Central Asia.
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a book talk with Eric Heikkila to look at how the rise of China alters the context in which the broad spectrum of policies in the United States should be assessed.