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Transpacifica is primarily written by Graham Webster, a fellow researching U.S.–China Relations at the Yale Law School China Center. Here, since 2006, I write about East Asian politics mostly in China and Japan, the Internet and society, the environment, and contemporary art. Unavoidably, I sometimes veer off topic—even with a topic as large as the Pacific.
I speak only for myself and do not represent any of these things I'm affiliated with:
• Fellow on U.S.–China Relations, The China Center, Yale Law School
• Adjunct Instructor, Center for Global Affairs, New York University
• Contributor, 八八吧 :: 88 BarTwitter: @gwbstr.
Website: gwbstr.com.-
Recent Posts
- Review: ‘How New and Assertive is China’s New Assertiveness’ by Alastair Iain Johnston, Spring 2013
- Updated: Did the Chinese government really call Diaoyu/Senkaku a ‘core interest’?
- Is the China-Japan confrontation Xi’s inside political play, or part of a broader move?
- Why one might think the US government sees China as threat no. 1
- Fighting ‘the myth of unitary control’ in China cybersecurity politics
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- China Brief – Jamestown Foundation
- China Dialogue
- China Digital Times
- China Economic Watch – PIIE
- China Financial Markets – Michael Pettis
- China Law & Policy
- China Media Project at HKU
- China Real Time Report – WSJ
- ChinaFile
- Danwei
- EastSouthWestNorth
- Frog in a Well
- GlobalTalk 21 – Jun Okumura
- James Fallows
- Letters from China – Evan Osnos
- Néojaponisme
- North Korea Economic Watch
- Rectified.name 正名
- Shanghaiist
- Sigma1
- Sinocism – Bill Bishop
- Tea Leaf Nation
- The China Story Journal – ANU
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Tag Archives: history
On Chinese exceptionalism, politics in history, and an interview with Harvard’s Mark C. Elliott
The China Story website from Australian National University has a wonderful interview with Mark C. Elliott,* a professor at Harvard University and an authority on the role of Manchu and other ethnic ideas in Chinese history. The full interview is … Continue reading
‘Chinese’ proves U.S. citizenship by speaking Chinook
Sometime in the 1870s, a Chinese man named Ling Fu was brought before Judge Cornelius Hanford in Seattle’s courthouse, accused of not having the proper citizenship papers. Facing deportation, Ling Fu argued that he did not need to carry papers: … Continue reading
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Tagged China-U.S., Chinese American, Chinook, history, nationality, Native American, Race, Seattle
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On the unfortunate presentism of China political science
From Neil J. Diamant on why we might want to study things before Reform and Opening in order to understand Chinese politics: “Given the short history of the PRC, and that much of what we have learned about its politics … Continue reading
California apologizes to Chinese Americans; U.S. Congress next?
Chinese migrants in California faced discrimination, violence, and forced expulsion from their homes on many occasions beginning in the mid-19th century. One historian’s account found almost 200 “roundups,” in which Chinese were pushed out of jobs, homes, and cities by … Continue reading
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Tagged Apology, Asian Americans, California, China-U.S., history, Jean Pfaelzer, Ling Woo Liu
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Wasserstrom on the History of Chinese Boycotts
In The Nation, University of California, Irvine Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes on some recent and not-so-recent history of anti-foreign boycotts in China: Between the 1910s and 1930s, several foreign powers found themselves the target of Chinese student-led boycotts. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged boycott, China, China, history, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, May Fourth Movement, Olympics
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