Hello all, my name is Blueshirts and I currently work for a research laboratory studying neurodegenerative diseases. My hobbies include reading, playing some video games, watching old movies, and contributing to wikipedia when I can. I've been registered since November 15, 2005.
I've written one featured article: Sino-German cooperation (which sadly got de-listed with very little discussion and none of the contributors of the article was notified to participate in the review process).
I like reading about history, especially about modern China (1860s~1949) and the West (17th~mid 20th centuries). My favorite period is the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Some stuff I've uploaded over at wikipedia commons.
The first project I have undertaken is the Second Sino-Japanese War. I would like to contribute more on the history of the war, particularly on conduct of the National Revolutionary Army led by the Nationalist Government of Kuomintang. Except for some exceptions, literature on the Second Sino-Japanese War tend to be overly partisan or ideologically-driven, until rather recently. On the one hand you have propaganda works from the PRC (mainland China) that exceedingly inflate the role of the communists, and on the other end you have books from the ROC (Taiwan) stating that everything Chiang Kai-shek has done was absolutely correct by the virtue of his infinite wisdom. And of course most Western sources tend to overlook or dismiss China's eight years' war of resistance, even though Western Europe surrendered in six weeks with minimal casualties. However, good sources are still available out there, and I would say, based on my experience, articles from eminent journals like The China Quarterly are mostly impartial and well sourced. Also, more recent works, from both the West and Taiwan, are rather neutral and reliable as they are a lot less tainted by liberal orthodoxy (in the West) or state ideology (in Taiwan) than before. However, publications from mainland China, unfortunately, still need much, much effort.
