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Asian History
Past Forward
Kyung Moon Hwang discusses features of Korean history that illuminate current issues and pressing concerns, including recent political upheavals,…
Australian National University
Imagining Afghanistan
Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies, and argues that Afghanistan…
Queen Mary, University of London
Chinese Workers in World War One France
Paul Bailey, Durham University, is a specialist in the social and cultural history of modern China. His research interests…
Durham University
A new type of revolution: socialist thought in India
Although it is often said that early postcolonial India was socialist, scholars have tended to take this term…
London School of Economics
Mapping China’s Growth and Development in the Long Run
China’s long-term experience showcases the two fundamentals in growth and development: efficiency and equality. Kent Deng discusses China’s…
London School of Economics
Understanding the imaginary war
Benjamin Ziemann offers a fresh interpretation of the Cold War as an imaginary war, a conflict that had…
University of Sheffield
Women’s everyday lives during the Song Dynasty
Man Xu, Tufts University, explores the complexities of elite and non-elite women’s everyday lives during the Song Dynasty,…
Tufts University
China’s War with Japan, 1937-1945
Rana Mitter is Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford and…
University of Oxford
Digital Giza: Visualizing the Pyramids
Peter Der Manuelian, Harvard University, discusses the most famous archaeological site in the world, the Pyramids on the…
Harvard University
Zayd
David S. Powers, Cornell University, attempts to restore Zayd to his rightful position at the center of the narrative…
Cornell University