Sources on the Overseas Chinese in North Korea, 1945-1950
A small subset of the “captured North Korean documents,” produced by the Chinese, now accessible online. Continue reading Sources on the Overseas Chinese in North Korea, 1945-1950
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Reassessing China-Myanmar Relations during the Cold War
An introduction by Hongwei Fan and a new set of Chinese-language documents on Sino-Burmese relations was just published by the Cold War International History Project. I served as translator for Fan’s introduction and coordinated the release. Continue reading Reassessing China-Myanmar Relations during the Cold War
North Korean Captured Documents at AAS 2014
Youngjun Kim, a Ph.D. student at the University of Kansas, and I organized a panel for the 2014 Association of Asian Studies (AAS) meeting in Philadelphia about the captured North Korean documents available at the US National Archives. Continue reading North Korean Captured Documents at AAS 2014
The Overseas Chinese in North Korea, 1945-1953
The roughly 50,000 Overseas Chinese in North Korea (朝鲜华侨 Chaoxian Huaqiao) were figuratively walled off from the rest of Korean society, even insulated from important political campaigns such as land reform (1946). Rather than absorption, the nascent North Korean state sought to preserve the separate identity of the Overseas Chinese, even granting them their own private schools. Continue reading The Overseas Chinese in North Korea, 1945-1953
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