Showing posts with label Chinese history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chinese history. Show all posts
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Spies, nukes, and communists: The complicated legacy of the Cold War

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The Cold War affected both sides of the  twentieth century’s  greatest conflict, in every region of the world. These included largely neutra...
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 22, 2023

A review of “Science in Antiquity” (audiobook)

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People have been curious about the natural world for as long as human beings have existed. The scientific impulse began very early in our hi...
Monday, September 28, 2020

A review of Sun Tzu's “The Art of War”

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself , you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for ...
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 ...
Wednesday, March 6, 2019

A review of the BBC's “The Story of Maths” (by Marcus du Sautoy)

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“Maths is the true language that the universe is written in  –  the key to understanding the world around us.” – Marcus du Sautoy, in th...
Monday, July 16, 2018

Bedtime stories about Armageddon: The lessons of the Cold War about nuclear weapons

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“I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture … ‘ And I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. ’ I suppose we all thought that, one w...
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...
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...
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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