续上篇 A Report on Hawaiian Mythology, PART II
Category: History
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” Edmund Burke says, and indeed they are. If we do not study our past and “let bygones be bygones”, it is inevitable that we would, sooner or later, be drawn into another war or plague, or misunderstanding, by the powerful gravity of human neglect and arrogance.
关于夏威夷神话的报告(一)
原本是写给几位朋友的短文,暂且放在这里。 A Report on Hawaiian Mythology, PART I.
[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 …
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Buffer Zones of Russia: 1700-2020
Dated December 2020, Final Paper for “Politics of Russia and the Post-Communist World” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Steven Lloyd Wilson. This is but a working draft of the project I envisioned, but due to the limited time I had, this was the final product.
U.S. Economic Policy Towards the People’s Republic of China: 1948-1950
Dated May 2020, Final Paper for “U.S. Foreign Economic Policy” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Kerry Chase.
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 …
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Legal Nature of Exclusive Social Clubs: An Overview
Dated December 2019, Final Paper for “American Legal History II” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Michael Willrich.
Contract and Corporation in Early American Whaling Industry
Dated December 2018, Final Paper for “American Legal History I” at Brandeis University, taught by Professor Michael Willrich.
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 …
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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 …
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