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Global Positioning: Houqua and His China Trade Partners in the Nineteenth Century
(2012-07-23)
This study unearths the lost world of early-nineteenth-century Canton. Known today as Guangzhou, this Chinese city witnessed the economic dynamism of global commerce until the demise of the Canton System in 1842. Records ...
Wartime Atrocities and the Politics of Treason in the Ruins of the Japanese Empire, 1937-1953
(2012-10-23)
This dissertation explores the relationship between violence and betrayal in retribution against military and police collaborators who helped maintain Japan’s wartime occupations up until its defeat in 1945. Looking at the ...