I visited the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture Archives in a fruitless effort to track down some documents. Continue reading See You Again, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture Archives
Reproducability is critical to the historical method and the scholarly enterprise, but what happens when the archival documents you draw on suddenly disappear? Continue reading Dealing with Re-classified Documents in China
In May 2015, the Wilson Center launched the Chinese Foreign Policy Database, which I developed. The Database contains nearly 1,500 declassified documents on the international relations of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) since 1949. Continue reading Chinese Foreign Policy Database
A new collection of Soviet documents now available on the Wilson Center Digital Archive promises to invigorate the study of Xinjiang in the 1930s and 1940s. Continue reading China and the Soviet Union in Xinjiang, 1934-1949
Sino-European Relations during the Cold War and the Rise of a Multipolar World combines critical oral history with newly translated documentary sources to provide insights into the dynamics of Sino-European relations, past and present, and recent and ongoing global power shifts. Continue reading Sino-European Relations during the Cold War and the Rise of a Multipolar World
A recently unearthed conversation with veteran independence activist Kim Gu (Kim Koo) provides new details on how leaders in southern Korea saw North Korea in 1948 and their predictions about the likelihood of a war in Korea. Continue reading Kim Gu on Reunification and War, 1948
I am sharing around 150 files from the Central Foreign Policy Files in Record Group 59 at the National Archives in College Park, MD, on the inter-Korean competition in Asia and Africa from 1967-1973. Continue reading State Department Files on North and South Korean Activities in Africa and Asia, 1967-1973
I am sharing around 170 documents on Xinjiang from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), at the National Archives in College Park, MD. The collection covers a wide period of time, 1946-1982, and includes all sorts of records (particularly field intelligence and long-form analysis) Continue reading CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) Documents on Xinjiang
I am sharing around 215 documents on Korea, north and south, from the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), at the National Archives in College Park, MD. Continue reading CIA Records Search Tool (CREST) Files on Korea
I will be attending a conference on “The Cold War in Southeast Asia: Local Sources and Perspectives,” at Nanyang Technological University, in Singapore, early next week. Continue reading The Cold War in Southeast Asia: Local Sources and Perspectives
