The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus Newsletter
Newsletter No. 14, 2017      July 15, 2017 New Articles         Richard Falk  Challenging Nuclearism: The Nuclear Ban Treaty Assessed     Jane Leung Larson & Feng Chongyi Charter 08's Qing Dynasty Precursor This article is reprinted in commemoration of the life of Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xiaobo, was transfered from his jail cell in Beijing where he was serving an eleven year sentence, to a cancer hospital where he died on July 13. The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who had returned to China to join students in the Tiananmen Square demonstration of 1989, and then helped to prevent further bloodshed by leading students away from the square on June 4, was a central figure in the Charter 08 democracy movement, for which he paid with his life.             Simon Avenell  Transnational Environmental Activism and Japan's Second Modernity      George Burchett  In the Jungles With The Viet Cong: The War on Nature Then and Today Mark Morris  Notes Toward an Archaeology of Hallyu Nan Kim  Candlelight and the Yellow Ribbon: Catalyzing Re-Democratization in South Korea
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