During the Second World War, China was stretched to its utmost as it sought to resist the Japanese invasion: troops, resources, and…
Unlike Nuremberg, which continues to be a name associated with postwar justice, Tokyo's status as a location that shaped Asia after the war…
The Real Roots of Xi Jinping Thought: Chinese Political Philosophers’ Long Struggle With Modernity
In 2023, Hunan TV, China’s second-most-watched television channel, unveiled a series called When Marx Met Confucius. The conceit was…
The idea of meritocracy, in its changed positive sense, has become popular in much of Asia and in the two mega-economies of the region,…
Plato Goes to China is a study of Chinese academics and policymakers who draw on interpretations of classical texts. Among Bartsch’s themes…
At the start of the 2022–2023 academic year, a group of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health students approached me to ask whether I…
We all read him, those of us who did graduate work in U.S. diplomatic history in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For although there were…
Human rights is a hybrid field of scholarship – at a minimum part law, part history, part philosophy and part political science. This…