[PLACEHOLDER] Foreign Military Presence in China During the First World War

This is a project that I occasionally work on. There is no end in sight, and it is, as its title suggests, nothing but a placeholder for the prospective final product, should it ever materialize. UPDATED 2021.09.27 Here are some notes I took, and some materials I compiled. If everything goes well I will continue …

Chinese Intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-1922)

Everyone knows about the Russian Civil War that unveiled the first powerful communist regimes of the world, but not too many had heard of the Allied Intervention in it, which speaks to an effort by Britain and Japan, along with several other conventionally named “imperialistic” powers, to militarily suppress the Red Army immediately after the …

Indians in East Africa: Identities in Four Stages

Indians, as a result of their past status of British subjects, had been a peculiar part of world imperialism. They had served in its army, labored on its plantations, and settled in its other colonies around the globe. Today we trace their footprints to East Africa, where there is a substantial Indian population till this …

Frederick Douglass Narrative and Analysis

Racial inequalities always exist, and slavery in 19th-century United States was among the most horrible expressions of this stereotypic assumption, which many advocates worked hard to eliminate and abolish. Frederick Douglass, born around 1818, was a slave for life in Maryland before his successful escape to New York in 1838. His famous slave narrative not …