In November 1946, Ho Chi Minh asked Indonesia to join him in getting India, Burma, and Malaya to develop initiatives toward a “Federation of Free Peoples of Southern Asia.” But Indonesian leaders responded coolly, in fear of communism will delay Indonesia’s own independence.展开全文 原微博
"when the Communist Party loses its grip over China, as one day it must; when Hamid Karzai's government falls in Afghanistan or Nouri al-Maliki's does in Iraq; who will then be the nation's heroes and who the collaborators?" Timothy Brook在JAS2012年1期上所说，此人真乃CP黑展开全文 原微博
Elizabeth Perry在2008年亚洲协会主席致辞中说scholars should reclaim the Chinese revolution from the subsequent judgement that it was a nasty and needless mistake.前几天重读Esherick的ten theses on Chinese revolution,也是强调二十世纪中国革命者们的理想,努力和牺牲不应该被遗忘.展开全文 原微博
Luther H. Hodges, DDT and the American Century: Global Health, Environmental Politics, and the Pesticide That Changed the World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2011). 此书精彩论点在于，DDT不仅仅是可以用来杀灭害虫的，还可以用来消灭communism。展开全文 原微博
"The Great Firewall of China, with the Chinese government limiting domestic access to foreign websites like Facebook and Youtube and providing state-sponsored alternatives (Renren and Youku/Tudou) makes censorship easier for the state." 我有个学生作业里写的，对中国还蛮了解展开全文 原微博
下周主要关注社会运动，读两本书，Elizabeth Perry, Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945; Susan Naquin, Shangtung Rebellion: The Wanglun Uprising of 1774.展开全文 原微博
