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Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 November 2023

The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914 by Charles Stephenson.

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World War I in the Far East was a sideshow in the grand scheme of things, but it had long-reaching implications, setting up further conflict...
Friday, 26 May 2023

Now Boarding: Experiencing Singapore through travel 1800s–2000s

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T.A.Morton gives a sneak preview of Now Boarding , an exhibition opening on May 27 at the National Museum, Singapore.  In 1956, writer W. So...
Thursday, 31 March 2022

Oral History as a Practice of Care: Theatres of Memory from Singapore's industrial history

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  Block 115 Commonwealth Drive, Singapore's first flatted factory. Editor's note: Our poetry column takes a break this month as I di...
Sunday, 6 June 2021

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

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The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...
Thursday, 6 August 2020

Japan's Asian Allies - A Look at the Collaborationist Regimes of World War II

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Compared to Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire during World War II receives little to no coverage in Western media. Even more obscure, are ...
Sunday, 5 July 2020

The Bitter Peace by Philip S. Jowett - Conflict in China 1928-1937

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Chinese history has long been ignored in the West, but a few spotlights do shine out from time to time on certain events, even if only to ...
Sunday, 3 May 2020

Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat - A Memoir of the Battle of Singapore

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It’s often said “history is written by the victors,” and this only half true. While the narrative of World War II is definitely constructe...
Saturday, 4 April 2020

Osprey's Japanese Armies 1868 - 1877 - The Boshin War and Satsuma Rebellion

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Osprey Publishing has become synonymous (in my mind at least) for quality research into military history of all time periods, throughout t...
Thursday, 13 February 2020

Japanese Destroyer Captain - A Memoir of The Pacific War

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Japanese Destroyer Captain is the postwar memoir of Tameichi Hara, a Japanese Navy officer who earned the nickname the “Miracle Captain.”...
Friday, 27 September 2019

Guest post: Michael Wert

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Michael Wert is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Marquette University in Wisconsin. Specializing in early modern and modern Japa...