News from the City of Five Rams
Everybody on this blog is publishing stuff lately. The scholar formerly known as Gina Russo, now known as Gina Russo Tam, has a nice review up on the archives o...
Month: January 2014
Universal Crime
All of you no doubt remember the drafts sections of his dissertation that Konrad posted here. Well, the first dead tree article out of the project is on newssta...
Opium warlord dies
If you study the history of drugs in Asia1 the period right after 1945 marks an important divide. Down to maybe 1840 (or in some contexts much later) drugs (mos...
American contempt for China
As it is the beginning of the semester, I went to dig up the famous quotes from Emerson and Adams on what is wrong with China. If you find yourself needing thes...
Underage drinking in Southeast Asia
Apparently the Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore is worth seeing. Although I have not been, it seems that they currently have an exhibit up on “Guinness by...
Historians fight against the sea
Our very own Konrad is featured in an Inside Higher Ed article on the digital embargoing of dissertations. For those of you who are not aware of it, the America...
The pure land of Tibet and the lothesome Han Chinese
Washington Monthly has an article up on Chinese tourism in Tibet. It is by Pearl Sydenstricker, who is a western (I assume) reporter who does not want to use th...
Teaching Asian Civilizations
As I was cleaning out my office I found a copy of Approaches to Asian Civilizations by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Anslie T. Embree.1 First published in 1964, the ...