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Kennedy’s Aggression is Meeting with Growing Revulsion: 1962

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Denying Historians: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds

Posted on 08/19/2014 by | Denying Historians: China’s Archives Increasingly Off-Bounds已关闭评论

5:25 am HKT Aug 19, 2014 CULTURE

By Maura Cunningham

BN-ED647_archiv_G_20140818071750The original document of Japanese war criminals in Jinan, Continue reading →

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First world war’s forgotten Chinese Labour Corps to get recognition at last

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Campaign launched to create memorial in London to workers literally painted out of a canvas recording nations who joined war effort

Maev Kennedy
The Guardian, Thursday 14 August 2014 13.02 EDT

Chinese Labour Corps recruits exercising in Weihaiwei prior to departure to Europe
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China TV series on Deng stirs questions on political openness

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BY MICHAEL MARTINA

BEIJING Tue Aug 12, 2014 8:49am EDT

A man looks out from a window next to a portrait of late Chinese leader Deng in a gallery at Dafen Oil Painting Village, in Shenzhen

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 69 Years Later

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AUGUST 07, 2014

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan

“I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. Continue reading →

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The Day a New Burma was Born

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By KYAW PHYO THA / THE IRRAWADDY

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Protesters gather near Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon during the nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988.

Exactly 26 years ago, on Aug 8, 1988, a popular democratic uprising took off in Rangoon that would sweep the country but end with a bloody crackdown by the Burma Army. In this article, which first appeared on Aug 8, 2012, participants in the uprising recall the heady days of revolt and its tragic ending. Continue reading →

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China’s Forgotten World War I

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July 30, 2014 | by LARB Blog

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Photo: The dedication of the WWI memorial in Shanghai, in 1924.

By Maura Elizabeth Cunningham

World War I has always been primarily Continue reading →

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Failure Is Our Muse

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By STEPHEN MARCHEJULY 25, 2014


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Credit Bruno Zocca

JULY 8, in case you happened to miss it, was Fitz-Greene Halleck Day, a chance to remember the most intensely forgotten writer in American history. Continue reading →

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