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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Tag: Asian Politics
Gunboat Justice v Soft Power
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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