Vincent K L Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 1217898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent K L Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent K L |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG V K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0234-0036 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Allies apart: China, Russia, and the limits of mnemonic friendship
Addressing a gap in memory studies and international relations, this article examines the construction and limits of Sino-Russian mnemonic friendship through historical narratives of the Second World War. Drawing on extensive multilingual datasets of Chinese and Russian state-sponsored media output, supplemented by additional primary sources and fieldwork in China, it identifies a complex pattern of selective remembering and strategic forgetting …
Exemplifying National Unity and Victory in Local State Museums: Chongqing and the New Paradigm of World War II Memory in China
The literature on World War II memory in China is skewed toward the history of the occupation and victimization of the eastern provinces. This study shifts the focus to the southwestern city of Chongqing, which served as China’s temporary wartime capital and the seat of the CCP–GMD united front. Comparing distinctive thematic narratives of four state museums, this research shows that Chongqing is not an outlier in China’s memory scape, as is ofte…
China's foreign policy contradictions: Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy
Policy contradictions, ideological dilemmas and factional rivalry are familiar themes for students of modern China. They have become most visible in times of momentous change, such as the clashes between the traditionalists and the cautious cosmopolitans that heralded the fall of the Chinese empire in 1911, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that forced the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan in …
China's new historical statecraft: Reviving the Second World War for national rejuvenation
There is a common perception that the Chinese state promotes fabricated accounts of the Second World War and the Communist Party's role in that conflict. Despite a growing scholarly interest in the history and collective memory of China's war experience, this perception has rarely been scrutinized, and the field has been slow to recognize recent shifts in China's memoryscape. This study draws on the concept of historical statecraft to compare off…
Recalling Victory, Recounting Greatness: Second World War Remembrance in Xi Jinping's China
The recent surge in public remembrance of the Second World War in China has been substantially undergirded by a centrally planned and systematically implemented discursive shift which has remained overlooked in the literature. This study examines the revised official narrative by drawing on three cases from China's school curriculum, museums and formal diplomacy. It finds that the once dominant trope of “national victimization” no longer represen…
Allies as adversaries: China, the Netherlands and clashing nationalisms in the emergence of the post‐war order, 1942–1945
Outside of the dominant frame depicting World War II as a showdown between the Allied and Axis powers, the war also represented a critical juncture in the global battle between empire and nation. In Asia, the war allowed a “semi‐colonial” China to successfully reclaim its sovereignty from both its allies and enemies and compelled the Dutch to forfeit colonial rule in Indonesia and its prestige as a regional power. Moving beyond conventional dicho…
Revolution and Recognition in Post-War Asia: Restoring Missing Links in the Establishment of Indonesia-People's Republic of China Relations, 1949-1950
This article sheds importantnew light on the early trajectory of contemporary Indonesia-People’sRepublic of China (PRC) ties. Drawingon an extensive range of hitherto unexplored archives, it unpacks the processesand policies that prompted the newly independent Indonesian state in thespring of 1950, to recognise and establish direct relations with the PRC, thereby supplanting the former link betweenthe Dutch colonial government and the Chinese Nat…
Forgotten Diplomacy: The Modern Remaking of Dutch-Chinese Relations, 1927–1950
In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang resurrects a near forgotten yet pivotal chapter of Dutch-Chinese ties to narrate how World War II, the civil war in China, and Indonesia's decolonization redefined and remade this age-old bilateral relationship. Drawing on a unique range of hitherto unexplored archives, the book explains how China's nascent rise on the global scene and the Netherlands' simultaneous decline as a colonial power …
Redefining Wartime Chongqing: International capital of a global power in the making, 1938-46
This article examines the historical role and legacy of the foreign establishment in China's temporary capital Chongqing during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan and the Second World War. This extraordinary episode, lasting from 1938 to 1946, ushered in a new era for China's foreign diplomacy and laid the foundation for its rise to world-power status. Placing Chongqing at the very heart of this epochal chapter in modern Chinese history,…
China's new historical statecraft: Reviving the Second World War for national rejuvenation
There is a common perception that the Chinese state promotes fabricated accounts of the Second World War and the Communist Party's role in that conflict. Despite a growing scholarly interest in the history and collective memory of China's war experience, this perception has rarely been scrutinized, and the field has been slow to recognize recent shifts in China's memoryscape. This study draws on the concept of historical statecraft to compare off…
Redefining Wartime Chongqing: International capital of a global power in the making, 1938-46
This article examines the historical role and legacy of the foreign establishment in China's temporary capital Chongqing during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan and the Second World War. This extraordinary episode, lasting from 1938 to 1946, ushered in a new era for China's foreign diplomacy and laid the foundation for its rise to world-power status. Placing Chongqing at the very heart of this epochal chapter in modern Chinese history,…
Exemplifying National Unity and Victory in Local State Museums: Chongqing and the New Paradigm of World War II Memory in China
The literature on World War II memory in China is skewed toward the history of the occupation and victimization of the eastern provinces. This study shifts the focus to the southwestern city of Chongqing, which served as China’s temporary wartime capital and the seat of the CCP–GMD united front. Comparing distinctive thematic narratives of four state museums, this research shows that Chongqing is not an outlier in China’s memory scape, as is ofte…
Redefining Wartime Chongqing: International capital of a global power in the making, 1938-46
This article examines the historical role and legacy of the foreign establishment in China's temporary capital Chongqing during the Chinese War of Resistance against Japan and the Second World War. This extraordinary episode, lasting from 1938 to 1946, ushered in a new era for China's foreign diplomacy and laid the foundation for its rise to world-power status. Placing Chongqing at the very heart of this epochal chapter in modern Chinese history,…
Forgotten Diplomacy: The Modern Remaking of Dutch-Chinese Relations, 1927–1950
In this meticulously researched volume, Vincent Chang resurrects a near forgotten yet pivotal chapter of Dutch-Chinese ties to narrate how World War II, the civil war in China, and Indonesia's decolonization redefined and remade this age-old bilateral relationship. Drawing on a unique range of hitherto unexplored archives, the book explains how China's nascent rise on the global scene and the Netherlands' simultaneous decline as a colonial power …
Recalling Victory, Recounting Greatness: Second World War Remembrance in Xi Jinping's China
The recent surge in public remembrance of the Second World War in China has been substantially undergirded by a centrally planned and systematically implemented discursive shift which has remained overlooked in the literature. This study examines the revised official narrative by drawing on three cases from China's school curriculum, museums and formal diplomacy. It finds that the once dominant trope of “national victimization” no longer represen…
Allies as adversaries: China, the Netherlands and clashing nationalisms in the emergence of the post‐war order, 1942–1945
Outside of the dominant frame depicting World War II as a showdown between the Allied and Axis powers, the war also represented a critical juncture in the global battle between empire and nation. In Asia, the war allowed a “semi‐colonial” China to successfully reclaim its sovereignty from both its allies and enemies and compelled the Dutch to forfeit colonial rule in Indonesia and its prestige as a regional power. Moving beyond conventional dicho…
Revolution and Recognition in Post-War Asia: Restoring Missing Links in the Establishment of Indonesia-People's Republic of China Relations, 1949-1950
This article sheds importantnew light on the early trajectory of contemporary Indonesia-People’sRepublic of China (PRC) ties. Drawingon an extensive range of hitherto unexplored archives, it unpacks the processesand policies that prompted the newly independent Indonesian state in thespring of 1950, to recognise and establish direct relations with the PRC, thereby supplanting the former link betweenthe Dutch colonial government and the Chinese Nat…
Exemplifying National Unity and Victory in Local State Museums: Chongqing and the New Paradigm of World War II Memory in China
The literature on World War II memory in China is skewed toward the history of the occupation and victimization of the eastern provinces. This study shifts the focus to the southwestern city of Chongqing, which served as China’s temporary wartime capital and the seat of the CCP–GMD united front. Comparing distinctive thematic narratives of four state museums, this research shows that Chongqing is not an outlier in China’s memory scape, as is ofte…
China's foreign policy contradictions: Lessons from China's R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO policy
Policy contradictions, ideological dilemmas and factional rivalry are familiar themes for students of modern China. They have become most visible in times of momentous change, such as the clashes between the traditionalists and the cautious cosmopolitans that heralded the fall of the Chinese empire in 1911, and the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that forced the retreat of the Republic of China to Taiwan in …
China's new historical statecraft: Reviving the Second World War for national rejuvenation
There is a common perception that the Chinese state promotes fabricated accounts of the Second World War and the Communist Party's role in that conflict. Despite a growing scholarly interest in the history and collective memory of China's war experience, this perception has rarely been scrutinized, and the field has been slow to recognize recent shifts in China's memoryscape. This study draws on the concept of historical statecraft to compare off…
Allies apart: China, Russia, and the limits of mnemonic friendship
Addressing a gap in memory studies and international relations, this article examines the construction and limits of Sino-Russian mnemonic friendship through historical narratives of the Second World War. Drawing on extensive multilingual datasets of Chinese and Russian state-sponsored media output, supplemented by additional primary sources and fieldwork in China, it identifies a complex pattern of selective remembering and strategic forgetting …
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