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Author: Alan Baumler

China/General

Notes from the Chinese Underworld

Posted on January 20, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I appear to have been guilty of smuggling, or at least receiving contraband goods. Probably the Triads or somebody like that was involved as well. Too cool. Whi...

China/General/Teaching

Rice Paddies

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Following Jonathan’s lead, here is my syllabus for History of East Asia, more commonly known as Rice Paddies. I suppose the first question to answer is wh...

China/General

Raise high the flag, whatever it stands for

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

This is a Japan/Manchukuo propaganda poster showing the harmony between the Chinese, Japanese, and Manchurians. I found it on the Hoover website and am using on...

China/General/Hong Kong/Identity

Cantonese is Dying! (in L.A.)

Posted on January 9, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

A not-too well informed article from the L.A. Times lamenting the decline of lively, slang-filled Cantonese in favor of the polite and dignified Mandarin. Obvio...

China/General

Why you could not be the Son of Heaven

Posted on January 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Late last night I found myself watching TV, and there was the World’s Strongest Man competition, taped in Chengdu last October. Apparently the competition consi...

China/General

What good is ritual?

Posted on December 20, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Rites (li禮) are something that you talk about a lot when you teach Chinese history. Usually the word is translated as “ritual,” which is a pretty ac...

China/General

Drop the book and step away from the scholarship

Posted on December 18, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 14 Comments

Apparently Homeland Security is monitoring Interlibrary Loan. A UMass student was questioned for having ordered a copy of the Little Red Book. According to the ...

China/General

Do we want to judge?

Posted on December 14, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 9 Comments

Caleb Mc Daniel has a nice post on President Bush, and his recent claims that his policies in Iraq can only be judged by future historians. Caleb points out tha...

China/General/Hong Kong

Provincialism and democracy

Posted on December 5, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Everyone is talking about the protests in Hong Kong, for good reason. What I find most interesting is the official response. (All links via Simon’s World, the o...

China/Gender/General/Qing

Why didn’t Manchu women bind their feet?

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 20 Comments

It is well-known that even after the conquest of China Manchu women did not bind their feet. The Qing emperors took clothing and hair very seriously as ways of ...

China/General

Hero and Mao

Posted on November 9, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 8 Comments

I’m a little late to the Hero bashing party, but this post (Bourdieu Boy via Notes of a former native speaker) got me to thinking. I agree that Hero was a somew...

China/General

Last night I saw upon the stair a little man who was not there

Posted on November 8, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Elvin’s The Retreat of the Elephants has a section on dragons. Specifically, why reliable, skeptical observers like Xie Zhaozhe, who published his Fivefold Misc...

China/General

Women hold up half of heaven

Posted on October 23, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I recently got a postcard asking me to assign a pamphlet “Li Fengjin: How the New Marriage Law Helped Chinese Women Stand Up” translated by Susan Glosser and pu...

China/General

Gresham’s Law

Posted on October 22, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The Great Yuan—how grave and dignified, Its authority by the crafty and duplicitous monopolized. ‘Repairing’ the Yellow River dikes [1351], ‘reforming’ th...

China/General

The Chairman vanishes (but is found again!)

Posted on October 13, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One of the nice things about teaching modern China is that the Communists, as a text-centered party, wrote a lot of things. A lot of them have been translated i...

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