...me. It's not native to me. I hate being forced to be artificial, being forced to be in close proximity to things that have little meaning for me, little sense of familiarity. That is the essence of colonialism, is it not? To meet something alien and weird, something irrelevant and uninteresting and find out that that thing is your master and owner, the determiner of your destiny. Or, in the very...

...the terrible sufferings and mass displacements of Congolese and other central African populations under European rule--the Germans in Cameroon, the French in Congo-Brazzaville, an unholy international conglomerate in the Congo Free State--might have had something to do with the virus' emergence. We already knew that colonialism kills. It turns out that it can do so in rather unexpected ways, too.

I know this guy's been dead for like a hundred fifty years but I still hate him and I can't read anything he says without wanting to vomit on my keyboard: Thomas Babington Macauley . He's an abolitionist...in themselves?  Do they know what happens to professors at Miskatonic University ?  When the robot uprising comes, we will not be thanking Europe for the industrial revolution, people!  :( 

I know this guy's been dead for like a hundred fifty years but I still hate him and I can't read anything he says without wanting to vomit on my keyboard: Thomas Babington Macauley . He's an abolitionist...in themselves?  Do they know what happens to professors at Miskatonic University ?  When the robot uprising comes, we will not be thanking Europe for the industrial revolution, people!  :( 

...tells is not significantly different from many other accounts on the origins, just fleshed out to the nth degree. Probably the most significant thing we see here is the shifting nature of Japanese 'colonialism' - the situation in 1931 gradually evolved, and we see a lot of indecision, in fighting, 'left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing,' and shifts corresponding with changing of the...

Peter Duus, Ramon H. Myers, Mark R. Peattie, eds. The Japanese Informal Empire in China, 1895-1937 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989). Concerning itself from the period of the first Sino...empires weren't. Not exactly surprising, though information regarding just how much Japan relied on trade with China - their informal empire - versus Korea or Taiwan is certainly enlightening

Chong-sik Lee, Counterinsurgency in Manchuria: the Japanese Experience, 1931-1940 (Santa Monica: The Rand Corp., 1967). The publisher & timing of this book should make it obvious why it was commissioned... - the bulk of attention is paid to Communist elements, Chinese Communists at that (Lee mentions the Minshengtuan incident which really wreaked havoc on collaboration between Chinese & Korean CP members)

Park Hyun Ok, Two Dreams in One Bed: Empire, Social Life, and the Origins of the North Korean Revolution in Manchuria (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005). Another book I'm pretty fond of, extremely... national, and social interests together, Two Dreams in One Bed provides a new way of looking at the colonial experience in Manchuria, long subjugated to nationalistic myths of valiant resistance

...with the penetration of Hokkaidō - referred to here as Ezo, which is sort of a catch all descriptor for norther lands; one of the most interesting aspects of this work is we get a look at Japanese colonialism and imperialism with 'training wheels.' Should Japanese expansionism really be viewed as a post-Meiji phenomenon? No, says Walker - the 'conquest of the Ainu lands' was just as much a colonial...

...and borders, an epilogue that looks at some of the post-colonial order in North & South Korea. One of the nicest things is that - in comparison with some of the excessively bloated books on Japanese colonialism in Korea - Schmid is reasonably slim. There is a LOT of information packed in this book, but none of it seems particularly extraneous. It's a bit like a fine wine - complex, layered, it all...