China

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• 9/22/19
  

  The Long History of Activism Preceding The Hong Kong Democracy Protests

  by Susan Blumberg-Kason

  For the last 100 years, Hong Kong has seen mass protests. They'll only stop when people feel they have a voice in government. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  September 3, 2019
  

  Around the World with Mao Zedong

  by Ian Johnson

  Julia Lovell's "Maoism: A Global History" traces the surprisingly wide influence of Chinese Communism. 

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• 91/1/9
  

  Where Are the Hong Kong Protests Headed?

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  After ten weeks of protest by students and others in Hong Kong the crisis seems to be spiraling toward a tragic climax.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2019
  

  The Forbidden City Opens Wide as China Projects New Pride in Its Past

  President Xi Jinping has pushed “cultural self-confidence” as a signature policy, and one of the beneficiaries has been the former home of emperors, neglected no longer.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/5/2019
  

  Lessons From Moscow: How China Might Handle Hong Kong

  Soviet experiences from decades past offer examples for what Beijing may do to quell protests in the city.

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• SOURCE: Share America
  7/3/2019
  

  China arrests Mongolian historian

  Ethnic Mongolians in Inner Mongolia, a semi-autonomous region in China, are facing increased pressure from the Chinese Communist Party.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/16/19
  

  The History Behind Hong Kong's Ongoing Protests

  Victoria Hui, a Hong Kong native and political scientist at the University of Notre Dame, explains Hong Kong's political history as protests continue there.

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• 6/16/19
  

  The Origins of American Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia – And Why China Challenges It Today

  by Wen-Qing Ngoei

  Examining the origins of American hegemony in this region helps us better understand the history of the Cold War. 

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• 6/2/19
  

  Beijing’s Tiananmen Square Massacre

  by Steven Knipp

  30 years later, it still haunts Hong Kong.

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• SOURCE: Time
  5/24/19
  

  Inside a Long-Lost Eyewitness Account of the Communist Takeover of Shanghai

  by Marc Wortman

  A recently rediscovered diary recounts the harrowing final days of the fighting that brought the Communists to power.

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• 5/26/19
  

  The Chinese Threat to American Higher Education

  by Mark S. Ferrara

  As President Trump’s nationalistic rhetoric and restrictive immigration policies have resulted in a 10 percent drop in international student enrollments on American campuses, China’s “Double First Class” plan aims to make forty-two of its universities into world-class institutions by 2050.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/3/19
  

  May Fourth, the Day That Changed China

  by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom

  Protests in 1919 propelled the country toward modernity. One hundred years later, the warlord spirit is back in Beijing.

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• 5/7/19
  

  How Chinese History Restarted 100 Years Ago

  by Peter Zarrow

  On Sunday, May 4, 1919, some 3,000 students assembled at Tiananmen Square in Beijing to protest the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/29/19
  

  Xi Praises a Student Protest in China. From 100 Years Ago.

  The May 4, 1919, protest against Western colonialism had inflamed Chinese nationalism and helped spread a wave of ideas rejecting Chinese tradition and hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/25/19
  

  If China wants to lead the global order, it will need more than the Belt and Road Initiative

  by Gregory Mitrovich

  The program falls well short of the world-changing Marshall Plan.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/15/19
  

  Hu Yaobang's Death 30 years ago was the spark for the Tiananmen Square protests

  He is mourned — to this day — by those who hail him as an anti-corruption reformer.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/14/19
  

  F.B.I. Bars Some China Scholars From Visiting U.S. Over Spying Fears

  The F.B.I. director, warned at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing last year that China presented “a whole-of-society threat on their end” that required a “whole-of-society response.”

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  3/27/19
  

  19th-Century ‘Humiliation’ Haunts China-U.S. Trade Talks

  China is resisting the Trump administration’s demand that the United States be allowed to impose tariffs if Beijing fails to keep its promises.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/2/19
  

  The Island That Changed History

  by Sergey Radchenko

  A 1969 border clash between Moscow and Beijing pushed the two apart, and opened the door for Nixon to go to China.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  1/29/19
  

  Xi’s China Is Steamrolling Its Own History

  by Pamela Kyle Crossley

  “Historical nihilism” is nothing more than a denial that the past is fundamentally a resource to be plundered by the present.