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| Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1528 Walnut Street, Suite 610
Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History (and Professor of Law, by courtesy), University of California at Irvine Editor, Journal of Asian Studies
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| Class of '55 Seminar Room (Room 241) of Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania
This paper is the first in a series of investigations dealing with the link between moral taboo, censorship, scholarly bias, and the preservation of Chinese books and magazines from the Republican period (1911-1949…
"The term 'comfort women' is a euphemism for enforced sex slaves for the Japanese military during their 15-year war in 1931-1945, which overlapped with WWII in Asia. Eighty percent of the 200,000 enslaved women were…
In November 2013 China's ruling Communist Party, headed by Xi Jinping, held a widely anticipated meeting of its central committee. This plenary session approved a sixty point decision outlining a new wave of reforms…
Starting with a revenue collection funtion, Customs has evolved its mission to include a contribution to economic competitiveness by improving transparency and efficiency of supply chain while protecting health,…
Talk abstract: The Ming dynasty (1368-1644) was one of a constellation of successor states to emerge out the collapse of the Mongol empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Polities and peoples in much of…