War on Terror – 2001 to present
Ten days after the attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush announces the War on Terror which evolved to a multidimensional
Works and readings by Leslie Lum
Geomancer and Cat Country
Ten days after the attacks of 9/11, George W. Bush announces the War on Terror which evolved to a multidimensional
Both Iris and Tsien were avowed atheists. I would hesitate to say that Iris and Tsien are in the Bardo
When Iris Chang suffered her mental illness, her family could not find appropriate help. According to her mother’s memoir, Iris
The day after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippines. The US army For the next three months, the combined
Rape has always been used as a weapon of war. The actions of the Japanese troops during the Rape of
The Chinese monk Xuanzang had a dream that convinced him to begin a seventeen-year journey to India to study in
Theodore Von Karman (1881-1963) Born in Budapest of Jewish ancestry and part of a cadre of Hungarian Jews coined the
I started this journey being addicted to three fascinating figures from recent history: Iris Chang (a human rights activist who
Geomancer had a previous reincarnation as a play about a scientist named Kuo with a mentor named Von Neumann. The
Qian Xuesen also known as Hsue-shen Tsien (1911-2009) Came to the US in 1935 on a Boxer Rebellion scholarship, staying
Tiananmen were student-led pro-democracy demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing starting in April 1989. Overnight on June 3, 1989,
My college had a visiting scholar from the Tibetan exile community in Dharmsala, Nawang Dorjee. We became friends over the
Iris Chang (1968-2004) Asian American author of three books including Thread of a Silkworm, a biography of Qian Xuesen, The
Cultural Revolution launched by Mao Zedong when he shut down schools and called for a massive youth mobilization to take
Great Leap Forward was a mass mobilization of rural workers in water works projects, backyard steel production, and other projects
1964 to 1966: China became the fifth nation to explode an atom bomb, a miraculous feat given its poor economic
McCarthyism of the Red Scare was a period of five years when Senator Joseph McCarthy tried in vain to expose
On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) with the takeover by
General MacArthur convened the International Military Tribunal for the Far East also known as the Tokyo Trials which found 28
1945: On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima by a unit of the US Army. On