How Taiwan Became Chinese
Salon.com is having an interesting little discussion of Tonio Andrade’s new book How Taiwan Became Chinese. I have not yet read the book, but I am familia...
Author: Alan Baumler
A stupid idea that will never work
Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...
Solar eclipse
Via View from Taiwan we learn that the statue of Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace in Taipei has been replaced with a potted plant.
Asian History Carnival #12
Asian History Carnival #12 A Carnival is an event which exists outside of the ordinary flow of time (which explains why this particular one is two weeks late) a...
Who lives in a Pineapple under the Sea of Japan…?
From Inside Asia I learn that China has created regulations to increase the number of domestic cartoons shown in China. This is a fairly standard bit of cultura...
Gavin Menzies, Historian
A few weeks ago I received a flyer from a publisher who shall remain nameless. They are soliciting people to write pro and con essays on various historical cont...
Family and Community in Asia (or, do my job for me)
As our regular readers know, there is a tradition here of posting our syllabai for comments. One class I will be teaching in the Fall is ASIA 200, Introduction ...
Has anyone seen the scissors?
Tang-dynasty scissors, via wikipedia Perhaps they are not as interesting as pigs, but I had a question about scissors. I was reading the 海王 chapter of Gu...
The changing world of scholarship
I got a box of books in the mail yesterday. This book to be exact I’m not really interested in reading it, as I assume I already know what’s ...
Does learning Chinese bring about world peace?
China Law blog asks an interesting question, and as they specifically call us out for a response, I thought I would say something. The question they asks is ...
Luoyang shovel
This is the famous 洛阳铲, or luoyang shovel, one of the most important tools in Chinese archeology. The basic idea is that you take it and shove it in the ground ...
Classes started today
And, as is something of a tradition here at the Frog, I am posting links to my syllabi for comments and suggestions. Actually we usually do this early enough to...
Bo Yibo 1908-2007
Bo Yibo has died He is probably best known today for being the father of one of the leading members of the so-called Prince’s faction and current Minister...
Pigs
How many pigs were there in China during the warlord era? I came across the wonderful site Strange Maps, and one of their offerings was a 1922 map of world hog ...