
Vincent K.L. ChangLeiden University | LEI · Leiden University Institute for Area Studies
Vincent K.L. Chang
Doctor of Philosophy
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This article discusses the dramatic recent shifts in Chinese policy perspectives on the European Union (EU) and on EU-China relations. Whereas for more than a decade, policy makers and Europe specialists in China had regarded the EU as an exemplar of regional integration and as a promising new ‘pole’ in the global order, a recent survey shows that...
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 forfe...
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 fo...
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 sta...
There is a common perception that the Chinese state promotes fabricated accounts of the Second World War and 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...
Using quantitative, qualitative and comparative analysis on a trilingual dataset comprising over 14,000 Russian and Chinese news articles published over the last two decades, this largescale study investigates to what extent Moscow and Beijing’s narratives on World War II are converging. It finds that any convergence is one-sided, shallow and unsta...
De vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking van de Tweede Kamer heeft gevraagd om een wetenschappelijke analyse van de positie van en de relatie met Taiwan tegen de achtergrond van het Nederlandse één-Chinabeleid. Deze factsheet beoogt hierin te voorzien. Gelijktijdig met deze factsheet stellen de auteurs een tweede fac...
De vaste commissie voor Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking van de Tweede Kamer heeft gevraagd om een wetenschappelijke factsheet waarin de historische relatie tussen Nederland en Taiwan beknopt wordt weergegeven en de belangrijkste kenmerken van deze relatie worden belicht. Deze factsheet beoogt hierin te voorzien. Gelijktijdig met de...
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...
This article sheds important new light on the early trajectory of contemporary Indonesia–People’s Republic of China (PRC) ties. Drawing on an extensive range of hitherto unexplored archives, it unpacks the processes and policies that prompted the newly independent Indonesian state in the spring of 1950 to recognise and establish direct relations wi...
Public debate in EU member states can enhance national and EU policy-making on China, but analysis of the 2019 Dutch policy paper on China and the surrounding debate suggests lack of strategic thinking and resolve on the member-state level may undermine cohesion and policy effectiveness on the EU level.
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 Ch...
This report contains the full findings of a survey of Chinese policy views of the EU, EU-China relations and Sino-Dutch relations based on recent Chinese publications and interviews with some 30 policy makers, diplomats and analysts in China and Europe. It explains how Chinese policy views of the EU have changed dramatically in the past few years a...
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-...
Bilingual (Chinese-English) monograph on China’s modern diplomacy during the Republican era, with a focus on China’s international relations during World War II. The book draws on a wide range of multi-lingual historical records preserved in public and private archives in China, Europe and the United States.
Conference paper/chapter contribution (in Chinese) to an edited volume on the renowned Dutch diplomat, scholar, and writer Robert van Gulik and his time in China. The chapter discusses Van Gulik’s three-year stint at the Dutch embassy in China’s temporary capital Chongqing during World War II and his contributions to wartime Sino-Dutch diplomacy.
Contribution (in Chinese) to liber amicorum for Prof. Zhou Yong on the urban history of Chongqing. The chapter examines first-hand accounts by foreign adventurers, merchants, writers, scholars, diplomats, generals and other figures who visited this remote Yangtze port during in the 100-year period from the Opium War to the founding of the People’s...
This article presents a rare inside view of a unique project currently underway in China to study and preserve the memory of possibly the single most seminal event in Chinese modern history, the War of Resistance against Japan (1937–45). The article introduces a multi-faceted program to preserve the wartime cultural heritage; the work is ongoing in...