East Asia: An International Quarterly articles from March 1999

East Asia: An International Quarterly archives from March 1999

Russia's image of China and Russian-Chinese relations.
March 22, 1999... China (sometimes as part of a more general notion of the East) has played a more general role as a reference point for Russian thinking about Russia itself, its place in the world, its future, and the essence of Russianness. A study of the...

India's nuclear bomb and future Sino-Indian relations.
March 22, 1999... On 11 and 13 May 1998, India conducted a total of five nuclear tests and officially declared itself a new "nuclear weapons state." India's defiant move is a serious challenge to the international nonproliferation regime and a very disturbing...

China after Deng Xiaoping: implications for Japan.
March 22, 1999... One direct way to understand Chinese politics is to listen to what the Chinese themselves say. A metaphor the Chinese use to describe their reform policies, whether economic or political, is crossing the stream by feeling the stones with one's...

Assessing China's military potential.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Anxiously watched, China's rise is unfamiliar, indifferently documented, and most frequently misinterpreted in its military aspects. With growing prosperity, and facing no acute external threats of any size, China has announced and, to a small...

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Iris Chang. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. New York: Basic Books, 1997. 290 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, Nanking has become the symbol of...

Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs.(Review)
March 22, 1999... James Yin and Shi Young. Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs. Chicago: Triumph Books, 1996. 319 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, Nanking has become the...

Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Sheldon Harris. Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-45, and the American Cover-up. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 297 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War...

Unit 731: Testimony.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Hal Gold. Unit 731: Testimony. Tokyo: Yenbooks, 1996. 256 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, Nanking has become the symbol of the Japanese military's monstrous and savage...

Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War. Letters to the Editor of Asahi Shimbun.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Frank Gibney (ed.). Senso: The Japanese Remember the Pacific War. Letters to the Editor of Asahi Shimbun. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1995. 327 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II,...

Japan at War: An Oral History.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook. Japan at War: An Oral History. New York: New Press, 1992. 479 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, Nanking has become the symbol of the...

The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Eric Lomax. The Railway Man: A POW's Searing Account of War, Brutality and Forgiveness. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995. 276 pp. As Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Jewish Holocaust and Nazi atrocities in World War II, Nanking has become...

Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Ackbar Abbas. Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance. Volume 2 in the Public Worlds Series. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 153 pp. $16.95. The transfer by the United Kingdom to China of sovereignty over...

The Rescue of BAT 21.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Darrell D. Whitcomb, The Rescue of BAT 21. Naval Institute Press, 1998. 164 pp. plus explanatory notes, glossary, maps, and photographs. Whitcomb describes the extraordinary efforts and cost in lives and destroyed/damaged aircraft of a...