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Unit 731: Japan's Biological and Chemical Warfare Research Facilities in China: An Analysis of China's Victimization and Memorialization Processes
Advertisements, Films, and Cigarettes in Old Shanghai: The Development of a Cigarette Culture in Urban China, 1915-1949
Between Angry Women and Bad Governments: The Contested Historical Memory of the Korean Comfort Women
"To Make Revolution Irresistible": The Borderlands of Transformative History and the Chicana Feminist Lesbian Narrative
How Chinese People Experienced the Sino-Albanian Alliance
History Department Honors ThesisCollege of Arts and ScienceDepartment of Histor
National Texts and Gendered Readings: A Critique of Anime and Manga Scholarship and A Re-Reading of Shojo Kakumei Utena
The Forgotten Crusaders: Western Missionaries in the Chinese Anti-Opium Movement
HIST 4981, Senior Honors Research Seminar, Arleen TuchmanAs the most notorious drug in China, opium is repeatedly taught in school, and nearly all Chinese people could list its harmful effects. Yet instead of being taught in biology class as an addictive drug, it is introduced in history classes as a weapon employed by imperial powers to open the Chinese market, and a trigger of the two Opium Wars. These wars, according to the orthodox textbooks, “forcefully ended the long-term isolationism policy in China,” and since then “China gradually became a semi-feudal, semi-colonized country.” Therefore, instead of its toxicity, opium is famous for its significance to the history of China.College of Arts and ScienceDepartment of Histor
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