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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...
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...
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...
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...
A book I have been reading for fun this summer is Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. It is a history of the various ...
Liu Junde has created a data browser you can use to draw things from the CGED-Q database of Qing officialdom. Here is a description posted to Facebook by Camero...
This is a picture from a New Life Movement Mass Wedding in Nanjing. Couples could be married for a fee of only $20 after filling out a few forms and being check...
Update Here is the more or less final draft So, a bit late,but some syllabus blogging for Fall. At present this is supposed to be an in-person class. Thi...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...