Misplaced Pages

Revision as of 01:17, 31 December 2002

My contributions have come under attack because of a series of misrepresentations and misunderstandings from various sources. Most of these contributions contain large sections of original writing that boundlessly improved each article.

If you go through them, you’d see that the contributions are commendable and fall within the Misplaced Pages guidelines. You’d see that each subject is now treated more even-handedly than before, and that each article conveys a far better understanding of the subject-matter.

In short, I’d like to dissuade the reports that my contributions have solely been focused on two extremes, ploemical essays or anecdotal commentaries.

In just the matter of a week or two, I’ve already revamped, overhauled, or written large segments of these following articles. I haven't really been keeping track though, not having an account until now (see below for old user names). Those are just the contributions that I can remember off the top of my head IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER:

Leonid Brezhnev, British Empire, Fidel Castro, Chinese historiography, Colonization of Africa, Communism, Deng Xiaoping, East Asian Tigers, Economy of Taiwan, Fascism, Finance Capitalism, Four Modernizations, genocide, Great Depression, History of Belgium, History of Brazil, History of China, History of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, History of the People's Republic of China, History of Germany, History of Taiwan, History of the United Kingdom, History of the United States, Hu Jintao, Hung-wu, Hu Yaobang, Imperialism in Asia, Jiang Zemin, Saddam Hussein, Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, kimjongilia, Leopold II of Belgium, Mao, Karl Marx, Robert Mugabe, Mussolini, New Imperialism, Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, Pol Pot, Soviet Union, Stalin, Getulio Dorneles Vargas, World War I, World War II

So far I’ve been preoccupied with the topics of modern China and nineteenth century imperialism, but I’ve also contributed to pages on Brazil, Russia and Ming China. I’d appreciate some suggestions for other topics.

External Links:

Wallerstein:

• Modern History Sourcebook: Summary of Wallerstein on World System Theory
• Pax Americana is over (Wallerstein)

Economics:

• WHAT I LEARNED AT THE WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS. The Insider by Joseph Stiglitz
• Commanding Heights with Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad
• Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith

China:

• Jiang Zemin's Speech at the Meeting Celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China
• Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping
• Human Rights Record of the United States in 2001 (Information Office of the State Council of the People's Republic of China)
• Chinese Communist Party 16th Party Congress (Leadership profiles from the BBC)
• Life Story of Jiang Zemin (from the People's Daily)
• Hollywood's Tibet
• 100 Questions and Answers about Tibet

Africa:

• Germany Refuses to Apologize for Herero Holocaust
• Belgium exhumes its colonial demons
• Why Mugabe is right
• Mugabe is Right, Whites Must Give Up the Land! by Koigi Wamwere

Misc.:

• 'UNDER BREZHNEV, IT WAS BETTER' (from Business Week)
• The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and Racism
• Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations, New York

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on the Transition (recommended):

• Joseph Stiglitz Lessons and Challenges in Transition (Transition in Russia, Eastern Europe)