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  • 11 May 2021
    Naoko Wake

    American Survivors

    The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 are often understood in dichotomy: Americans as those who used the bombs, the Japanese as those affected. I wanted to break the dichotomy by writing a history of American survivors—Japanese Americans and Korean Americans—who were in either city in 1945. Their stories have surprisingly unspooled many […]

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  • 13 Mar 2019
    Martin T. Fromm

    Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China

    Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China   Martin T. Fromm is author of Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical Identity in Post-Mao China (Cambridge University Press, 2019) Determining the truth about the past is rarely a simple task.  Party officials overseeing the post-Mao transition in 1980s China were evidently aware of this, as […]

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