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• China: Is the absence of an emperor proof of the existence of a republic?

  By Bruce on February 17, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  On 12 February 1912, the Xinhai Revolution, or the Hsin-hai Revolution, also known as the Revolution of 1911 or the Chinese Revolution, culminated with the overthrow of the Empress Dowager Longyu and the infant Emperor Puyi that marked the end… Read More ›

• July 21 1553 China’s warrior monks meet Japan’s dwarf pirates

  By Bruce on July 21, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  
  

  On July 21st 1553, 120 Buddhist temple monks met an approximately equal number of “Japanese pirates” in battle. The so-called Japanese pirates, wakou or woku, were actually a confederation of Japanese, Chinese, and even some Portuguese citizens who banded together…. Read More ›

• June 24 1989: China ousts Zhao Ziyang

  By Bruce on June 25, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  On June 24 1989, a Saturday, Zhao Ziyang was formally ousted as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party weeks after voicing sympathy for student demonstrators at Tiananmen Square. Jiang Zemin replaced him, and Zhao spent the rest of his… Read More ›

• China’s 21 “Most Wanted” following Tiananmen Square Massacre

  By Bruce on June 13, 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  
  

  On June 13 1989, a Tuesday, the Beijing Public Security Bureau issued a list of 21 leaders of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests who were being sought for arrest, as reported by the New York Times on the following day:… Read More ›

• Tiananmen Square, China: June 3-4, 1989

  By Bruce on June 4, 2013 • ( 11 )

  

  
  

  On Saturday June 3, 1989, word spread that hundreds of thousands of troops were approaching from all four corners of the city. Citizens of Beijing, China, flooded the streets to block them. Just as they had done two weeks earlier…. Read More ›

• November 12 1900 Chinese racism unacceptable at Stanford University

  By Bruce on November 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  
  

  On November 12th 1900, the economist and sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross was forced to resign from Stanford University as Professor of Sociology. This intrusion on academic freedom, which partly led to the founding of the American Association of University Professors… Read More ›

• Xinjiang: An inconvenient truth for the Chinese Communist Party

  By Bruce on November 11, 2012 • ( 8 )

  

  
  

  “In Urumqi, China, an exhibit on the first floor of the museum gives the government’s unambiguous take on the history of the border region: ‘Xinjiang has been an inalienable part of the territory of China,’ says one prominent sign. “But… Read More ›