Summary Despite flourishing economic interactions and deepening interdependence, the current political and diplomatic relationship between Japan and China remains lukewarm at best. Indeed, bilateral relations…
Country or Region: China
Summary As tensions between Japan and China continue to bubble over islands in the East China Sea, scholars from the two countries outline not only…
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Abstract East Asian countries have been engaged in disputes over history. While their historical contentions have caused suspicions and frictions among them, I argue that…
Summary Japan’s Contested War Memories is an important and significant book that explores the struggles within contemporary Japanese society to come to terms with Second World War…
Summary The Seven Military Classics is one of the most profound studies of warfare ever written. It presents us with an Eastern tradition of strategic…
Abstract Chinese leaders have repeatedly insisted upon the contemporary relevance of the ‘War of Resistance to Japan’ (1937–1945). However, the content of the official history…
Abstract This essay explores the emergence and impact of populist “history activism” in China. History activism includes museums and academics documenting Japanese wartime atrocities in…
Summary In the early 1960s, fewer than five percent of Japanese owned automobiles, China’s per capita income was among the lowest in Asia, and living…
Summary The essays in this volume analyze war, its strategic characterisitics and its political and social functions, over the past five centuries. The diversity of…
Abstract The complex relationship between domestic politics and war issues makes war guilt a controversial topic in Japan. Japan’s World War II occupation of a…
Abstract By tracing the origin and evolution of Chinese nationalism, this paper finds that the dialectical relationship between the Chinese “self ” and the foreign “other ” has…
Abstract This paper employs concepts and analytical frameworks drawn from Sociology, particularly collective memory, to examine China’s attempts – and the limitations of those attempts…
Abstract China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in oil imports. This has raised great conce6jrn regarding its energy security because China…
Abstract This study aims to examine how China’s energy security has changed over 30 years of reform and the opening period. It constructs a 4-As…
Abstract In order to find efficient trade measures to reduce China׳s energy consumption and to provide theoretical support for the climate talks between China and…
Continue reading Yang, Ranran, Ruyin Long, Ting Yue, and Haihong Shi
