Chinese Studies Program

Adam Cathcart's published research examines Chinese foreign relations and propaganda in the early Cold War, with an emphasis on Chinese attitudes toward the U.S. occupation of Japan. His ongoing research on Japanese bacteriological war crimes trials and the Korean War stems from the archives of the PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs and fieldwork in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Region in northeast China. In 2007, he received a Freeman Foundation ASIANetwork Fellowship for Student-Faculty Research in northeast china. His articles appear regularly in Asian Studies journals such as China Quarterly and Journal of Korean Studies. Having studied cello at St. Olaf College, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival, Adam Cathcart is an active performer of music by J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, and contemporary Chinese composers.