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Author: Alan Baumler

China/Gender/General

What is a family?

Posted on September 19, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via Reason’s Hit and Run I find this story about a Taiwanese women who wanted to harvest the sperm of her recently deceased fiancée so that she could get pregna...

China/General

Seven steps to a better Sichuan. (part 1)

Posted on September 15, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the things I came across recently is a 文史资料 piece by 杨芳毓. Yang was a returned student who was a subordinate to the Sichuan warlord Liu Xiang in the 1930s...

China/General

If you go down in the flood it's gonna be your fault*

Posted on September 3, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Watching the coverage of the New Orleans flood I was reminded of the 1998 Yangtze floods, and it occurred to me that this is yet another example of how China is...

China/Diaspora/General/Identity

Viewing Africa from Asia

Posted on August 26, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

(This is a comment on Tim Burke’s syllabus on Images of Africa cross-posted from his blog. I am putting it up here to see if anyone has any suggestions on image...

China/General

Eat and run

Posted on August 25, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Chinese food culture There is a current series on Amsterdam on Slate where Seth Stevenson suggests that the Dutch are almost never seen walking and eating. Amer...

China/Economics/General/Post-Mao/Republican

Nourish the people with cheap diesel

Posted on August 19, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

In the post below Jonathan asked how a Confucian China could really be in the future. One possible bit of data comes from this article (From Brad DeLong). NYT r...

China/General

Should grad students blog?

Posted on July 9, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There was a rather nasty piece on academic blogging in the Chronicle. Comments at Bitch Ph.D. The basic thrust of it is that grad students should not have blogs...

China/General

Frog in a Well

Posted on July 6, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

I’ve noticed that while we call this blog Frog in a Well, we have never actually posted the story. This is from Burton Watson’s translation of Zhuan...

Books/China/Diplomacy/Economics/General

Grain supply and military logistics in 18th century China.

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Reading Perdue’s China Marches West I was struck by how much historians are constrained by our sources and how we strain against them. The book itself (which is...

China/Diplomacy/Economics/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity

Mickey Mouse in China

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There are some interesting articles in the current Modern China, and the one I would like to comment on at present is “Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northw...

China/General

Recycling images

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

This picture should of course be familiar to a many of our readers. It’s from 点石斋画报, probably the most famous of the late-19th century illustrated magazines. Th...

China/Class/General/Labor

Labor and the public sphere

Posted on June 15, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via H-Asia I found China Law Digest, which seems to have a lot of interesting stuff. One of these is a story about migrant laborers in Fujian organizing themsel...

China/General

Chinese Invasion

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

As summer is here soon we may be getting reports of the dreaded Chinese Snakehead fish. Invasive species are of course nothing new, but Zebra Mussels and Eurasi...

China/Diplomacy/General

Does China exist?

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

The question of China’s existence or non-existence in the eyes of foreigners is an old one. At least for the early European explorers China really did exist, an...

China/General

Intro

Posted on June 14, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Member introduction. I would like to thank Konrad for his invitation to join up, and say that I look forward to being a part of this blog. I suppose I should st...

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