Socialism is good
Finally. Just in time for the end of the semester. I managed to find an on-line version of Socialism Is Good. Well, not just a version. There are lots of fairly...
Author: Alan Baumler
Digital History and teaching
Yoni Applebaum has apparently taken a break from filming The Matrix 4 to record a clip on The Historian in The Digital Age. For those of you don’t know hi...
I made tea eggs today
Apparently this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, ...
Unearthing the Nation
Grace Yen Shen’s Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China is a really good book. Shen says that at first “it took a lot o...
Chairman Xi serves the people
Offbeat China has some official cartoons showing Xi Jinping as an ordinary guy who can sit cross-legged just like folks. I guess now that Gary Locke has officia...
Digital resources
I have been looking through two really useful digital resources lately. One is the Hathi Trust website. They have been digitizing stuff for some time, and the s...
Contradictions among the critics
The Maoist International Movement’s movie archives are on-line. They are really fun. You feel kind of silly when you realize that you have never thought o...
When China was a Great Power
Recently I was Google-ing to find a picture of the statue of Liang Qichao that is, I think, in his hometown. No better way to show that someone made it big than...
China's Museums
I have been reading China’s Museums, part of the Cambridge University Press series Introductions to Chinese Culture. I am finding the table of contents pa...
History and tourism in China
China File has been following the attempts of the town of Bishan to make itself into a tourist destination. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in China, and...
Boxers and Saints
I did a class that focused on the Boxers last semester, and one of the things I talked about was Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints. This is a two volume ...
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...
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...