All Outputs (23)

Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores the ways in which photography was used by the colonial state in Malaya to promote the supposed success of resettlement–the counterinsurgency scheme through which around half a million people were forcibly moved into camps, later... Read More about Humanising the Squatter: Photography in the Service of Resettlement in Emergency-era Malaya.

“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.

Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia (2022)
Book

This open access book explores how different spatial geographies emerged, adapted or were transformed in various occupied and colonial settings around Asia, showing how the experiences of those living under occupation shaped and was shaped by new int... Read More about Spatial Histories of Occupation: Colonialism, Conquest and Foreign Control in Asia.

Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context (2022)
Book

This open access book examines how auditory environments in different contexts have contributed to understanding foreign occupation and colonialism, and how they have given rise to historical music cultures. How are sound and music implicated in the... Read More about Sonic Histories of Occupation: Experiencing Sound and Empire in a Global Context.

Chineseness and the Cold War: Contested Cultures and Diaspora in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong (2021)
Book

Voice of America Chinese-dialect broadcasting and the Chinese Cultural Cold War, 1949-1953 (2021)
Book Chapter

Visiting the "Overseas Chinese": Vatican engagement with the Chinese Diaspora in Cold War Southeast Asia Asia (2021)
Book Chapter

Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue (2020)
Book

Asking what does foreign occupation look like and how does occupation shape visual expression and cultures, this edited collection explores how the occupied and occupiers have responded to their circumstances through visual culture. Contributors stud... Read More about Visual Histories of Occupation: A Transcultural Dialogue.

Thatched cottage in a fallen city: The poetics and sociology of survival under the occupation (2020)
Journal Article

This article examines the construction of lyric identities by Li Xuanti, a classical-style poet, cultural celebrity and prominent civil servant in collaborationist regimes based in Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It argues that Li used h... Read More about Thatched cottage in a fallen city: The poetics and sociology of survival under the occupation.

A Historian’s Ethical Duty: Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping (2020)
Journal Article

In the wake of Japan's occupation of Beiping (now Beijing) in 1937, the historian Chen Yuan's choice between staying in or leaving the city (which would imply accommodation or resistance) was regarded not merely as a personal decision but also as a s... Read More about A Historian’s Ethical Duty: Chen Yuan’s ‘Illumination of the Subtle’ in Occupied Beiping.

Towards a New History of Elite Cultural Expression in Japanese-Occupied China (2020)
Journal Article

This paper provides a 'state of the field' view of what the authors refer to as the 'new cultural history' of Japanese-occupied China. It explores how this small but growing field is beginning to provide new perspectives on questions of 'collaboratio... Read More about Towards a New History of Elite Cultural Expression in Japanese-Occupied China.

The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai (2020)
Journal Article

This article looks at artists' engagement with artistic activities carried out in wartime Shanghai, with a particular focus on guohua (lit., 'national painting'). Drawing on primary sources such as archival materials, diaries, paintings, magazines an... Read More about The Discourse of Guohua in Wartime Shanghai.

Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation (2020)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the poetry of Qu Xuanying, a literatus who remained in the city of Beiping (now Beijing) following its occupation by the Japanese in 1937. Through historical allusions in his poetry, Qu communicated with friends about the ethi... Read More about Esoteric Writing through Historical Allusions: Qu Xuanying’s Poetry under Japanese Occupation.

Volume 19 (2020): Issue 2 (Dec 2020): Special Issue: Elite Accommodation, Collaboration and Cultural Production in Japanese-Occupied China (2020)
Book

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.

Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War (2018)
Journal Article

This paper explores the fate of a southern Fujianese opera (liyuanxi) play that was reformed over the course of the early 1950s and eventually made into the first full-length film to be produced in southern Fujianese dialect (Minnanyu) in the People'... Read More about Lychees and Mirrors: Local Opera, Cinema, and Diaspora in the Chinese Cultural Cold War.

Chiang Kai-Shek (2018)
Book Chapter

From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944 (2018)
Journal Article

Based on recently re-opened files and publications in Nanjing, as well as published and newsreel accounts from the 1940s, this paper represents the first scholarly analysis of the rituals surrounding the death and burial of Wang Jingwei in Japanese-o... Read More about From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944.

Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40 (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines the creation and use of gendered archetypes by the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (PGROC), the first collaborationist government established in China following the Japanese invasion of 1937. Drawing on a wide ra... Read More about Gendered Archetypes of Wartime Occupation: ‘New Women’ in Occupied North China, 1937–40.