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Author: Alan Baumler

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Syllabus blogging -Tokugawa

Posted on August 15, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

In keeping with tradition, here is the Tokugawa group project for this semester. I probably could have made more categories, but this should be enough. The rest...

Teaching/Textbooks

Textbooks and teaching. A new dawn?

Posted on June 21, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Major and Cook’s Ancient China: A history is now available as open access  via Routledge. This is good news, and got me to thinking about teaching and textbooks...

Aviation/China/Popular Culture/Republican/Science / Technology/Science and Technology

Who were the people in wartime China?

Posted on June 3, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Just for fun, here is a table I found of those who jumped from the parachute tower in Chongqing between April of 1942 and April 1943. I suppose I should open wi...

Japan/Posts/Teaching

Tokugawa Japan-What’s the question?

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, again this fall I will be having students in my upper-level class (in this case Early  Modern Japan) do a group research project. The end of the project wil...

Teaching

Group research assignments

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Final report on group research assignment. It  seems to have gone pretty well. Of the 22 students who finished the class 14 did the survey about it (anonymous, ...

Posts

Group research project -Abortive Revolution

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Update Here is the semi-final list of topics for the group research project. So if you want a definitive list of all the things that were going on in Republican...

1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

Posts

Failure to communicate -Huainanzi

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

So, the Huainanzi project in my early China class went ok, and would have worked better if I had been better at explaining what I wanted from the final paper. I...

Medieval/Teaching

The Jiankang Empire

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I don’t usually post book reviews here, and this is not really a book review, but I got a lot out of Andrew Chittick’s new book The Jiankang Empire in Chinese a...

Teaching

How to start the semester? Use a textbook, Luke

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Covid willing and the creek don’t rise we will start the semester in person four days from now. One problem I always have will upper-level Asian history c...

Academia/Anecdotes/Historiography

Jonathan Spence has ascended to heaven on a dragon

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Well, actually, that is how the death of the emperor was announced in the 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor, which came out just as I was starting ...

Japan/Teaching

Taisho Project assessment

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The project is here I thought it went pretty well, although there are some things I need to work on. I had the students do a survey about it, and most of them f...

Teaching/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Ask Historians!

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

You would probably not think of Reddit as the best place to go for historical knowledge. For those of you who don’t know it, Reddit is the place where any...

Syllabi/Teaching

Syllabus Blogging for Spring 2022

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As in the past, I need to order books for classes, and more generally think about what I will be doing next semester, so as always I am posting here.  Posting t...

Archives/Teaching/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Particularly as I work on the visual culture of aviation (one of my current projects) I am getting both encouraged and discouraged about the state of sources in...

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