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Author: Alan Baumler

Newspapers/Republican

The changing Chinese press

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Cécile Armand has been posting on her work on the evolution of the Republican-era Chinese press, based on Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. Althou...

Syllabi/Teaching

Teaching East Asia ​In the Humanities

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This looks like a cool conference, at least till the last panel. Teaching East Asia In the Humanities April 24-25, 2021 https://www.teachinghumanities.com/confe...

Economics/Teaching

The economics of maize

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here, for your teaching pleasure, is a long quote on the value of corn (maize) in China. I often mention in class that New World crops were economically valuabl...

Korea/Literature/Teaching/Translation

Korean social history through yadam

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I was recently sent a copy of Si Nae Park The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia U.P., 2020) It̵...

Literature/Poetry/Teaching

The Songs of Chu

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Gopal Suku’s new translation of Qu Yuan’s The Songs of Chu. I am not qualified to speak about it as a scholarly tran...

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Syllabus blogging Fall 2020 -HIST 433 China 1300-1800 The Late Imperial Age

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. This is my upper-division class for the semester, where I want to push students i...

Teaching

Syllabus blogging for Fall 2020 HIST 206 History of East Asia

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. Fall semester will be a bit different. We will be doing hybrid (well, actually Ha...

Books/Cultural/Popular Culture/Science and Technology

Can you speak Chinese?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Economics/globalization/Historical analogies/Historiography

Was Late Imperial China Early Modern?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Zou Jiajun posted on the Sinologists Facebook group asking how the term “Early Modern” got to be used in China studies. This is a an interesting question, since...

Art/Gender/visual culture

Art and status and women and mirrors and…

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image from the back of a Song dynasty mirror in the collection of Martin J. Powers. As he describes it One [woman], on the right, tends a child and s...

Literature/Qing/visual culture

Dress and identity in the Qing

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Guojun Wang’s Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. I am not particularly a student of drama, or of costume, but in the T...

Current Events/Current/Recent Events/Hong Kong/Politics/Popular Culture/visual culture

Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

Posts

Mapping China from the air

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Since I have been posting maps, I thought I would put this up. This is from Shigeru Kobayashi 小林茂, Gaihōzu : Teikoku Nihon no Ajia chizu 外邦図 : 帝国日本のアジア地図 (Tōk...

1911/Maps/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image I use in class, from Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China New York: Facts on File, 1983. p.158. This has some good images i...

Popular Culture/Religion/Republican/Science / Technology

Radio in China

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I was looking around for some information on Chinese radio during the Republic and discovered that there is not much out there. There are some cites in this the...

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