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From the NS archive: Mao Tse-tung 15 January 1949: The outside world is just beginning to understand the struggles between Chiang Kai-shek and Mao’s Communist Party. In this analytical history of the rise to power of Mao Zedong (then Romanised as Mao Tse-tung), the New Statesman’s then-Asia correspondent Dorothy Woodman writes that the future Chinese leader “has never known any other life than that of patient, confident struggle”. By January 1949, the communists in China were victoriou...

capital Newspaper History books well recorded that in the 1800s China simultaneously experiences major internal strains and Western imperialist pressure, backed by military might which China cannot match. China’s position in the world and self-image is reversed in a mere 100-year period (c.a. 1840-1940) from leading civilization to subjected and torn country. Japan was not the first modern and mechanized power to menace the freedom of China. It was the rapid encroachment of the W...

by J. Oliver Conroy Print this article The Haitian-born filmmaker Raoul Peck has devoted his career to investigating the pathologies of the 20th and 21st century and forcing audiences to confront them. His brooding documentaries and feature films have explored economic despair in Haiti, the legacy of Papa Doc Duvalier’s brutal dictatorship there, the Rwandan genocide, the assassinated Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba, and Karl Marxs and Friedrich Engels’s creation ...

Labour is too weak to win and too strong to die The Hartlepool by-election shows Labour is rudderless in an era in which cultural values, not class, shape voting patterns.  Ian Forsyth/Getty Images Keir Starmer visits a building development project on the banks of the River Wear on 1 May 2021 in Durham. Commander John Kerans was an assistant naval attaché in Nanking, China in 1949 who took control of HMS Amethyst when the ship came under fire on the Yangtze river during th...

Japanese gallery to restore famous A-bomb paintings for first time Sorry, but your browser needs Javascript to use this site. If youre not sure how to activate it, please refer to this site: https://www.enable-javascript.com/ Supplied photo shows "Ghosts," the first panel in a series of 15 paintings depicting the aftermath of 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. It is set to be restored for the first time, 71 years after its release. | KYODO Kyodo May 2, 2021 Saitama – A series of...

May 1, 2021 Last November, Yoshiaki Yoshida, founder and CEO of DHC Corp., which mainly sells health supplements and cosmetics, posted a message on its official online store about DHC’s rival, an affiliate of Suntory Holdings Ltd., in which he said that almost all the talent employed by the affiliate in its advertising are “Korean-related.” He then referred to the company with a made-up word that merged a derogatory Japanese term for Koreans with the Suntory name. In contrast, he...

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Viking Massacre Speech 321 Words2 Pages I remember when I was a middle school student, we are required to keep in mind about the rape of Nanjing. The textbook we read in China listed a large number of crimes Japanese army created that can hardly forget in my young heart. Every spring and autumn, we made many white flowers and held a memorial ceremony for the sacrifice of Nanjing Massacre. I don’t want to talk too much about the truth of Nanjing Massacre, because I lived near Nanjing when I...

What’s going on with Canton’s Democratic Party? City leaders have varying opinions. Sign out front of Canton City Hall. (Source: WLBT) By Anthony Warren | April 27, 2021 at 4:37 PM CDT - Updated April 27 at 5:46 PM CANTON, Miss. (WLBT) - For Marion Freeman, it’s like Jim Crow all over again. The 74-year-old member of Canton’s Democratic Executive Committee remembers when Black people couldn’t vote … when African Americans were forced to endure near-impossibl...

The Morse Museum offers three not-to-be-missed exhibits that aren’t Tiffany glass  In recent months, Live Active Cultures has covered the revival of theaters, theme parks and other forms of performing arts, but Ive largely overlooked the post-pandemic progress of Orlandos visual arts venues. I recently made amends by making my first visit in over a year to one of my favorite Winter Park institutions, the Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. COVID-19 has mandated some changes at the M...