Comparative Colonialism-Taiwan
Japan Focus has a nice article by Anne Booth on Japanese colonialism in Taiwan (and Korea) The standard view is that the post-war development of both places ha...
Author: Alan Baumler
Obama for Minister of the Left
Some historians have gone so far as to endorse Barak Obama for the office of President of the United States. Lots of people who seem to have very little affinit...
Taiwanese modernity
One of my colleagues asked me a question about Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times. For those of you who have not seen it, it is a set of three love stories all...
Teaching Confucius
Tomorrow I get to teach Confucius to my Rice Paddies class. This used to be a fairly easy thing to do, until the unspeakably annoying E. Bruce and A. Taeko Broo...
How to get rich in Chinese business
This is from the Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture1 It is a wonderful reading to use in classes, as our hero Dou Yi manages to make dough in p...
It's not history, but it's not bad
Here at Frog in a Well we have always prided ourselves on being the best salientian group blog on Chinese history. While we are still the undisputed masters of ...
Germans and China
I have been reading Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of Total War in Imperial Germany Cornell, 20051 I was mainly in...
Miss Taiwan?
A hunting parting in Xinzhu, 1935 A great new resource provided by Paul Barclay of Lafayette College. They have digitized a great collection of photos of...
The Chinese are way more advanced than the Americans
Geoff Wade sent a long message to H-Asia detailing the current status of the raising of the Nanhai1, a large Song dynasty (or maybe Ming dynasty, accounts vary)...
Virtual protest in China
From Danwei (via Virtual China) a post on protests in ZT Online (征途), the largest on-line game in China. That there are on-line games that cater to Chinese user...
A tame civil society in China?
Via Kevin Drum (where the comments so far are better than you might expect) a link to an article by Christina Larson in the new Washington Monthly about environ...
Teaching with Tools
One of the classes I will be doing next semester is History 200, Introduction to History, which is our methods course for majors, usually taken when they are so...
Asian symbols
Useless Tree has a post up on the Chinese roots of the Korean flag. This post led me to look up an interesting, if rather old, article on the use of R...
Jackie Chan and Louis Cha
Everybody knows about ping pong diplomacy, but we seem to have just completed a period of Canto-pop diplomacy, as Jackie Chan has recorded an “official...
The crucibe of Revolution
One of the nice thing about studying modern Chinese history is that Chinese states have gone to gone to great lengths to collect oral histories and other accoun...