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“To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China (2022)
Journal Article

Contributing to a growing literature on the transnational history of ‘collaborationism’ under wartime occupation, this paper examines ‘Rural Pacification’–the counterinsurgency campaigns that were prosecuted from 1941 to 1943 in Japanese-occupied Chi... Read More about “To Cleanse the Countryside We Must First Cleanse Hearts’: The Culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China.

The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945 (2019)
Journal Article

This paper explores the importance of portrait photography to the wartime collaborationist regime of Wang Jingwei, which governed parts of Japanese-occupied China from 1940 to 1945. It demonstrates how, for a combination of practical, political and c... Read More about The ‘Occupied Lens’ in Wartime China: Portrait Photography in the Service of Chinese ‘Collaboration’, 1939–1945.

"Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories (2019)
Journal Article

Drawing on archival sources in Britain, Singapore, Malaysia, and the United States, this article explores late-colonial anxieties about the influence of Chinese nationalism in Malaya (and especially among students in Chinese-medium schools) in the le... Read More about "Not a particularly happy expression": "Malayanization" and the China threat in Britain's late-colonial Southeast Asian territories.