Tag: China
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Justo Cabo Chan and the Chinese in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation
Introduction by Chien-Wen Kung, National University of Singapore. Published on April 11, 2021. This document features excerpts from a much longer essay written by Philippine-Chinese businessman Justo Cabo Chan (Zeng Tingquan) after World War II and published (in Chinese) in the second volume of the 1948 Philippine-Chinese Chronicle. Born in the Philippines, Cabo Chan was a… Read more
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“Concerning the Management of Women Traveling to China”
Introduction by Amy Stanley (Northwestern University). Published on Dec 9, 2021. This document, Concerning the management of women traveling to China, was issued by the head of the Home Ministry Police Affairs Bureau on February 23, 1938. The same office sent a draft of the document to prefectural governors in Japan and the heads of the Ministry… Read more
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寂然上人碑 Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran
Introduction by Jonathan Henshaw, Academia Sinica. Published on Oct 19, 2022. Listed among the items in the Immoveable Cultural Relics database in China’s Jiangsu Province is the Stele to the Venerable Master Jiran, a unique artefact located at Qixia Temple in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, pre-war capital of the Republic of China. Built from 483-489… Read more
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“We Are Two Sisters”: Korean and Taiwan Anti-Japanese Volunteers in China
Introduction by Shaun Lee Yi Xian (Supervised by Sayaka Chatani), National University of Singapore. Published on Jul 31, 2023. Despite not being a Japanese colony, China became a site of many Korean and Taiwanese nationalist efforts in the 1920s. This was so especially before the Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalists)–Chinese Communist Party (CCP) United Front ended and… Read more