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Shaun O'Dwyer
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KyushuU Prof Author "Confucianism's Prospects" SUNY Press, editor "Handbook of Confucianism in Modern Japan" AUP, editor "Confucianism at War" Routledge (2024)
Oct 13, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
From the Japanese Communist Party’s newspaper “Red Flag”- “Calling for Restraint to end the Cycle of Violence: On the Conflict between Palestine’s Hamas and Israel”. With statements on human rights and the two-state solution diverging from anti-colonial left perspectives 1/ Image As a 100 year old Communist Party still able to get itself elected at sub-national/national levels, it’s worth considering how the JCP diverges from the anti-colonial left. Chat gpt works OK if you don’t read Japanese, but I’ll focus on some points here 2/ t.ly/ZwGPx
Jun 30, 2022 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
@hannahjshepherd @EthanMarkLeiden @astanley711 Here is what I said in an "Asian Times" article last April about Ramseyer's paper. I know Amy and David read it at the time. The "critics analysis" links to your co-authored paper. ihttps://asiatimes.com/2021/04/academics-nationalisms-and-comfort-women/ Image @hannahjshepherd @EthanMarkLeiden @astanley711 As far as I know, Ramseyer has never tried to justify his paper's findings in a public forum. The webinar would have seen him questioned not only about the "credible commitments" article, but also about the Chicago School of Economics dogmas that thread their way through decades
Jun 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@EthanMarkLeiden @astanley711 1. My and my peers' work on JPN Confucianism stresses its 1930's-40's complicity with imperialism and militarism. So much for the BS about me being a "useful idiot" for the JPN right that denies WWII militarism.
2. I don't give a rats for the self-defeating "no-platform" dogmas @EthanMarkLeiden @astanley711 currently convulsing elite US and to a lesser degree, other Anglophone universities. My Hx E Asia group will platform scholars who have contentious positions on history, including positions I reject. We will platform a US scholar with objectionable, racist views on immigration
Sep 16, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" type left wing campism is extremely dispiriting when it generates this type of denialism among American anti-racism activists.

It also contrasts with earlier generations of African American left engagement with Soviet anti-racism 1/ Image Over 90 years ago African-American intellectuals like Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson traveled to the Soviet Union to see for themselves an internationalist, anti-racist and anti-colonial Communism in practice. Even as the Soviets were persecuting their own people 2/ Image