Showing posts with label Asian history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asian history. Show all posts
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Forgotten battlegrounds of the World Wars: Asia and the Pacific

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Warning: This blog post contains some disturbing pictures. One of these, in particular, is very graphic, and may merit special caution. We a...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Forgotten battlegrounds of the Cold War: South Asia and Indonesia

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“ We the people of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia . Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things w...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Vietnam War” (PBS)

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“ ♪ How many roads must a man walk down, Before they can call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the...
Saturday, February 15, 2020

A review of David Grubin's “The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha” (PBS)

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For practicing Buddhists, Siddhartha Gautama was just the first Buddha … At the time I write this, I have watched eight other films by ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of China”

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“Representing the will of the people of the entire nation, it has formulated the organization law for the Central People's Government ...
Monday, July 8, 2019

A review of “Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire” (PBS Empires)

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Japan's initial contact with the West in 1543 In the year 1543, a Portuguese trading ship arrived in the Japanese island of Tanegash...
Friday, December 7, 2018

A review of “Tora! Tora! Tora!” (1970 movie)

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“Thus, the earnest hope of the Japanese Government to adjust Japanese-American relations and to preserve and promote the peace of the Paci...
Monday, August 6, 2018

Why dropping the bombs on Japan was the RIGHT thing to do

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“We the undersigned, acting by authority of the German High Command, hereby surrender unconditionally to the Supreme Commander, Allied E...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Nixon's visit to China: Driving a wedge between China and the Soviet Union

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This might seem a strange way to begin a blog post about American diplomacy in the Nixon era, but the year 1949 was significant for both t...
Sunday, June 25, 2017

A review of “Korea: The Forgotten War” (Timeless Media Group)

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So I recently finished watching "Korea: The Forgotten War," which is a five-hour series from Timeless Media Group . (Not to be c...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

A review of “A History of Japan” (by R. H. P. Mason & J. G. Caiger)

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"We, the Japanese people, acting through our duly elected representatives in the National Diet, determined that we shall secure for o...
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Why Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan didn't go communist (like mainland China did)

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One of the basic facts about China today is that most of it is communist - the part that most of us hear about. Thus, it surprises some p...
Monday, August 15, 2016

A review of Michael Wood's “The Story of India”

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"As from the fifteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, two independent Dominions shall be set up in India , to be kn...
Sunday, April 17, 2016

History's horror stories: The “grand experiments” with communism

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Americans have rightly been interested in their own country's history for a long time - both for the moving stories it contains, and ...
Monday, November 9, 2015

A review of CNN's “The Cold War”

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"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...
Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Actually, communism HAS been tried (and it doesn't work)

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Tiananmen Square , China 1989 "China isn't all that bad," some say ... The critics of communism have long pointed o...
Thursday, April 17, 2014

Does communism cause poverty? (The two experiments that prove it does)

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Karl Marx, the chief founder of communism Does communism cause poverty? And how can this be tested? Karl Marx What counts as...
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