I won't cry for the wasted years
Reading Mote’s Imperial China 900-1800 I came across an interesting quote (p.45) On the (rather irregular) death of Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang i...
Reading Mote’s Imperial China 900-1800 I came across an interesting quote (p.45) On the (rather irregular) death of Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang i...
K.C. Johnson calls our attention to a post by which discusses the state of military history. K.C. is mostly interested in getting military historians the repres...
As the final installment in our exciting series of syllabus posts I present my last class for the semester, Nomadic Empires and China It is a topics class, so i...
It has been rainy rather than snowy around here of late, which is very unusual for this time of year. While walking in a cold wet rain I began to try and think ...
As we have been posting syllabi and asking for comments I thought I would do something radical and post one for a class that I will not be teaching until next F...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...