Country Studies
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Burma, China, Indochina I (Cambodia and Laos), Indochina II (Vietnam), Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Malaya, Mongolia and Manchuria, Philippines, Thailand
Burma Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Mike Charney, Aung San emerges as a civilian politician.
Susanne Prager-Nyein, The birth of Burma’s modern army.
Marc Gallacchio, General Order No. 1.
Susanne Prager-Nyein and Tun Kyaw Nyein, Setting the stage for the final struggle - the Naythuyain conference.
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Susanne Prager-Nyein, A sense of frustration – The return of Governor Dorman-Smith
Donald Seekins, U Saw: An enigma in East Africa.
Mikael Gravers, Striving for their own country:
the Karen of Burma.
Paul Kratoska, POW takes charge of the Thailand-Burma
death railway.
Stein Tønnesen, No peace for Asia.
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Li Lin, Road to the second KMT-CCP civil war.
Kwong Chi Man, Liberating Hong Kong.
Geoffrey Gunn, Macao and the British reoccupation
of Hong Kong.
Bruce A. Elleman, Sino-Soviet friendship and Outer Mongolia.
Uradyn E. Bulag, ‘Uninvited’ war and the Mongol trophy.
Li Lin, The Takeover of Shanghai.
David Askew, Surrender in Nanking.
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George Kulstad, A boy in wartime Shanghai.
Huang Chih-huei, Taiwan and the establishment
of Chinese rule.
Bruce A. Elleman, Soviet sea denial in Port Arthur and Dairen.
Geoffrey Gunn, The fate of European treaty ports.
Bruce Reynolds, Thai-Chinese relations under pressure.
David Marr, The Chinese army enters Indochina.
Marc Gallacchio, General Order No. 1.
Stein Tønnesen, No peace for Asia.
Laos and Cambodia Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III
Part IV Part V
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
David Chandler, Musings on the French and the Japanese.
Geoffrey Gunn, The great famine.
Pierre Grosser, France restored.
Shane Strate, Thailand's support for neighbouring
liberation movements.
David Marr, The Chinese army enters Indochina.
Geoffrey Gunn, Japanese deserters in Indochina.
Shane Strate, The lost territories: Franco-Thai relations
after WWII.
David Chandler, ‘Did they cherish their independence, which had fallen from the sky?’
Vatthana Pholsena, Upland peoples in a lowland revolution.
David P. Chandler, A general arrests a prime minister.
Not going home: The fate of Japanese POWs.
Stein Tønnessen, No peace for Asia.
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Shawn McHale, Cochinchina – a failed revolution?
Pierre Grosser, France restored.
Shawn McHale, Saigon descends into chaos.
Geoffrey Gunn, The Cité Héraud (Saigon) Massacre.
Shane Strate, Thailand's support for neighbouring
liberation movements.
Natasha Pairaudeau and Chi P. Phuong,
Indochina’s Indian dimension.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
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Nguyễn Thế Anh, Bao Dai’s abdication and the failure of an imperial project.
David Marr, Declaring Vietnamese Independence.
Geoffrey Gunn, The great Vietnam famine.
David Marr, The Chinese army enters Indochina.
François Guillemot, Vietnam’s fractured nationalists.
Geoffrey Gunn, The French Permanent Military
Tribunal in Saigon.
Geoffrey Gunn, Japanese deserters in Indochina.
Stein Tønnessen, No peace for Asia.
Indonesia Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III
Part IV Part V Part VI
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Harry Poeze, Proklamasi: a hurried
declaration in Jakarta.
Anthony Reid, Bounding independent Indonesia.
Kevin Fogg, Shaping Indonesia and its government.
Harry Poeze, The military in the
early Indonesian republic.
Kevin Fogg, News of Indonesian independence spreads.
Theodore Friend, Indonesian and Filipino responses to Japanese ideology of empire.
Geoffrey Gunn, Timor: Portuguese administration and Australian power plays.
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Robbie Peters, Power changes hands in Surabaya.
Anthony Reid, Colonialism returns to East Indonesia.
Tom van den Berge, The Dutch return.
Anthony Reid, Polarization in Sumatra.
Kevin Fogg, Muslims embrace the revolution.
Harry Poeze, Dutch internees and their rescue.
Robbie Peters, War comes to Surabaya.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
Not going home: the fate of Japanese POWs.
Stein Tønnessen, No peace for Asia.
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Ayelet Zohar, Images of Hiroshima.
Matsushige Yoshito, Hiroshima: In the photographer’s own words.
Justifying the Bomb.
John Dower, Always controversial.
Ayelet Zohar, The day after.
Susanna Fessler, The role of the Emperor in Japan.
Susanna Fessler, Fighting to surrender.
Danny Orbach, The Kyūjō Incident: A night-time
coup in Tokyo.
Susanna Fessler, The Emperor’s surrender broadcast.
M.G. Sheftall, Perceptions of the Emperor’s speech.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
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M.G. Sheftall, The last kamikaze.
John Dower, Defeat and despair.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Soviet war on Japan.
John Dower, Occupying the Americans.
Andrew Barshay, Kazuki Yasuo (1911–74): The witness of art.
Lori Watt, From colonial elite to defeated national.
Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins, First steps toward a new constitution.
Christian Hess, The fate of Japanese settlers in Manchuria.
Geoffrey Gunn, Japanese deserters in Indochina.
Tessa Morris-Suzuki, The Japanese Military and ‘Comfort Women’ during WW II.
Korea Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Lori Watt, From colonial elite to defeated national:
the first 100 days.
Andrei Lankov, Soviet occupation and
the national division of Korea.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Jason Sze Chieh Ng, ‘When the Reds go marching in’.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
Cheah Boon Kheng, The Malayan Communist
Party’s surprising strategy.
Anthony Reid, Deciding the boundaries of
independent Indonesia.
Clay Eaton, The last days of Syonan.
Paul Kratoska, Banana money: Malaya’s wartime currency.
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Sandra Khor Manickam, Looking for Din after the war.
Clay Eaton, Mabel’s life goes on.
Souchou Yao, From Heroes to Villains.
Vera Hildebrand, India’s women warriors:
The Rani of Jhansi Regiment.
Abu Talib Ahmad, The place of Malays in a new world order.
Not going home: the fate of Japanese POWs.
Mongolia and Manchuria Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Bruce A. Elleman, Sino-Soviet friendship and Outer Mongolia.
Tsedendamba Batbayar, Mongolian independence and the United States.
Uradyn E. Bulag, ‘Uninvited’ war and the Mongol trophy.
Ravdan Bold, Mongolian participation in the war against Japan.
Bruce A. Elleman, Soviet sea denial in Port Arthur and Dairen.
Mongolia
Christian Hess, The fate of Japanese settlers in Manchuria.
Li Narangoa, De Wang and the dream for a Mongolian State.
Tsedendamba Batbayar, Mongolia’s national referendum for independence.
Li Narangoa, Puyi: a survivor.
Uradyn E. Bulag, The memorial park of the martyrs of Soviet-Mongolian allied forces.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1
Not going home: the fate of Japanese POWs.
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Thailand Special Edition:
Part I Part II Part III Part IV
Expert Analyses (click on any title)
Geoffrey Gunn, The great famine.
Bruce Reynolds, Thai-Chinese relations under pressure.
Shane Strate, The lost territories: Franco-Thai
relations after WWII.
Bruce Reynolds, Making peace with the British in Thailand.
Marc Gallicchio, General Order No. 1.
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Paul Kratoska, A POW takes charge of the
Thailand–Burma ‘Death Railway'.
Shane Strate, Thailand's support for neighbouring
liberation movements.
Bruce Reynolds, Old animosities and personal
rivalries complicate postwar Thai politics.
Shane Strate, Siam or Thailand?
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