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The Tiananmen Protests figures – Part 1

Julia_M April 2, 2025 No Comments Asian History (Books)Asian PoliticsEuropean History (Books)India HistoryInternational Relations (Books)Pakistan History

How many died when the military went in to clear protesters who refused to obey a martial law curfew? A recent book stated 478 dead…

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Gunboat Justice v Soft Power

Julia_M March 11, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)History (Books)History & Theory of PoliticsMemoirs (Books)National & International Security (Books)

Douglas Clark’s magnum opus 3-volume history of Britain and American Law Courts in China and Japan is an exploration of gunboat hard power and the…

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The Tiananmen Papers – Part 3

Julia_M March 3, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)Communism & Socialism (Kindle Store)Historical China BiographiesHistory of ChinaHuman Geography (Books)

The Tiananmen Papers are fake documents. So asserts Alfred L Chan, [author of Xi Jin Ping, HC 2022 ed] [see p 277 Deng Xiao Ping…

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The Tiananmen Papers – Part 2

Julia_M February 25, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)Communism & SocialismGeneral Elections & Political ProcessHistorical China BiographiesHistory of ChinaHuman Rights (Books)Political Advocacy BooksPolitical Leader Biographies

Are the Tiananmen Papers fake? Ezra F. Vogel, in his monumental Deng Xiao Ping and the Transformation of China [2011], has the best discussion. He…

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The Steep Trail of Reform

Julia_M February 5, 2025 No Comments Asian History (Books)Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)Communism & Socialism (Books)Economic History (Books)World History (Books)

Never Turn Back by Julian Gewirtz, published 2022, is a history of China in the 1980s. Julian using Chinese sources shows a China that was…

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On Xi Jin Ping – Part 6

Julia_M January 16, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)Civics & Citizenship (Books)Historical China BiographiesNationalism (Books)Political Leader Biographies

One of the gems in this book is Rudd’s careful analysis of why Xi Jin Ping has deliberately departed from Deng Xiao Ping’s famous 24-character…

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On Xi Jin Ping – Part 5

Julia_M January 15, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsChinese History (Books)Civics & Citizenship (Books)Historical China BiographiesNationalism (Books)Political Leader Biographies

Xi Jin Ping became the paramount leader of China in 2012. What is remarkable is that when he took office, he already had a vision…

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On Xi Jin Ping – Part 4

Julia_M January 14, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsCivics & Citizenship (Books)Nationalism (Books)

Deng said China should, ” Observe calmly; Secure our position; Cope with affairs calmly; Hide our capabilities and bide our time; Be good at maintaining…

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On Xi Jin Ping – Part 3

Julia_M January 13, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsCivics & Citizenship (Books)Nationalism (Books)

Kevin Rudd in chapter 3 made a useful historical survey of the worldviews of China from pre-Communist i.e. the early dynasty of Western Zhou [2070…

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On Xi Jin Ping – Part 2

Julia_M January 12, 2025 No Comments Asian PoliticsCivics & Citizenship (Books)Nationalism (Books)

Kevin Rudd’s latest book, published in 2024, is based on his doctoral dissertation at Oxford University completed between 2017 and 2022. Rudd is a former…

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