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...adopted city of Kobe has tied its future to China. Since the mid-19th century, Kobe, like the Japanese cities of Yokohama and Nagasaki, has been home to a small Chinatown, a legacy of the Chinese sailors and merchants who flocked to its once thriving port. By the early 1900s, tens of thousands of Chinese were living in Japan, often running restaurants or traditional Chinese medicine shops. But life wasn't easy. When a killer earthquake leveled Tokyo in 1923, non-Japanese residents were unfairly blamed for poisoning the water supply. Japanese mobs killed thousands of ethnic Chinese and Koreans...
...deserves. On Nov. 22, Oxford University Press publishes Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works, the first time all his plays, poems and manuscripts have appeared in a single volume. The timing of this 2,016-page monument couldn't be better. Academic interest in Middleton has burgeoned since the 1900s as scholars have discovered that the more time passes, the more relevant his work becomes. "When you read Middleton, you get the sense that the world he wrote about is the world we live in now, with all the moral dilemmas we face and the things that shape our identities," says...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
...debate among faculty and students at both schools in the early 1900s gained new relevance last December, in the context of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ decision to create a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. SEAS, while still a part of the Faculty, now is independent enough to form crucial relationships with other Harvard faculties, according to former FAS Dean William C. Kirby. The School celebrated its official launch on Sept. 20, hosting festivities in front of Pierce Hall with University President Drew G. Faust, members of the Board of Overseers, engineering students and alumni...
...exploited for trade or hydropower, the 3,000-mile (4,800-km) Mekong has until recently largely escaped the imprint of the modern world. During the colonial era, treacherous rapids stymied expeditions hoping to uncover its upstream secrets, leaving the waterway for local fishermen and farmers. By the mid-1900s, when the West was forced to withdraw from Indochina, the Mekong had become a byword for the failure of modern military might against dogged resistance forces nourished by the river's gifts...