Essays

Research Essays

Here are some of the academic essays I've written.
Hope they help in your future research.

  • -1- The PRC vs The ROC: The Taiwan Straits Dilemma.
  • -2- The Ideological Dilemma: Moderate Parties and Successful Parties
  • -3- A Great Crash: The Tragedy of 1929
  • -4- Jim Crow Laws: The Ugly Career of Segregation
  • -5- The Beat Generation: The Fifties and Onward
  • -6- Disaster: How Global Warming Affects Climate
  • -7- Chinese-Canadian Relations: An Artificial Reality
  • -8- Geography and Modernity: A Tale of Two Views
  • -9- American Hegemony: The Geopolitics of Free Trade in Canada
  • -10- Land Reform of the Two Chinas: A Retrospective Comparison
  • -11- "Fishhawk": An Ancient Poem Of Love and Betrayal in the Shijing
  • -12- Advice From a Confucian in 212 BC
  • -13- Buddhism in China From 200 to 600: Its Extents and Limits
  • -14- A Concubine and the Children: Fragments of a Chinese Family
  • -15- The Evolution of Vancouver's Chinatown
  • -16- The Rise of Tokugawa Japan: The Tensions Between Shogun and Daimyo
  • -17- The Story of Cui Ying-ying: Of Confucian Qualities and Demonic Virtues
  • -18- The Anti-Hero: Liu Bei in A Romance of Three Kingdoms
  • -19- The Song Dynasty Literati in Imperial China: Factionalism in Crisis
  • -20- Pan Jinlian in Shuihuzhuan: A Contrast of Two Eras
  • -21- The Story of Monkey in Xi you ji: The Harmonization of Traditional China's Three Religions
  • -22- Educational Disjunction: Competition and Cooperation in the Chinese Cultural Revolution
  • -23- The Japanese Communist Party: A History of Transition
  • -24- Misogyny and Murder in Shuihuzhuan
    -27- A Selective Historiography in the Decolonization of the British Imperial Empire
    -28- Sun Yat-sen: An Historiography of Ambiguity
    -29- Foucault contra Habermas: The Politics of Postmodernism
    -30- What Ideological Crisis? A Historiographical Analysis of Ideological Change in the CCP
    -31- The Biographical Portraits of Mao Zedong: A Historiographical Analysis
    -32- A Selective Historiography of the Chinese Cultural Revolution