East Asia & Southeast Asia

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Lydia Walker, light and dark and navy horizontal stripes and an abstract design, Ohio State logo and History Talk logo
Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.
The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts
U.S. soldiers walking through rubble in Manila
The Battle for Manila
Korean politicians at a podium
Making Sense of South Korean Politics
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.
The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.
The Taiwan Strait Conflict
The South Korean flag in Seoul, South Korea.
The Impeachment of Roh Moo-hyun and the Patterns of South Korean Politics
people holding signs protesting China's occupation of Tibet
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
The Arrow Incident on October 8 1856
The Second Opium War
Liu Bang
Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor
Burial detail at Camp O'Donnell after the Bataan Death March
The Bataan Death March
Downstream view of Marco Polo Bridge by Thomas Child, 1877. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident (1937)
Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
French soldiers overrun Chinese troops during the 1860 campaign in the Second Opium War.
The Second Opium War
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan
Bombing Hiroshima
group of protesters with linked arms at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
Cover of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China by Dong Guoqiang and Andrew G. Walder.
The View from the Countryside
The Ganden Monastery in Lhasa was one of the many victims of bombing during the 1956 uprising. The destruction caused to the monastery is still visible in the ruins.
The Seventeen Point Agreement: China’s Occupation of Tibet
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
Hospital workers
Corona in context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic of 2003
Vietnamese Children
Voices of the Vietnam War