Art and War in Modern Japan
If you teach Modern Japan you are probably used to having lots of cool pictures to show your students. You probably pinch a lot of them from the MIT Visualizing...
Author: Alan Baumler
Internet Culture and Rough Music
Not really a post, but more of an idea. I ran across this, about victims of the alleged Las Vegas shooting who are being harassed on-line. I say alleged, becau...
North Korea in the News-Trump is a dotard
As some of you may know, Kim Jong-un has referred to Donald Trump as a “dotard“, and this has caused a good deal of comment. Does this mean that Kim...
China-Burma-India and popular history sources
Looking for information on the American involvement in China in World War Two? Not too long ago that would have been the last thing anyone who did serious China...
Syllabus blogging for Fall 2017
There is a tradition here of posting our syllabai and asking for advice on how to teach things. Ideally we would do this long enough before the semester starts ...
Would the Boxers vote for Trump?
Of course not. They were not registered, and in any case that would be foreign interference in an election that would Hurt The Feelings Of The American People. ...
Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950
Hey look! Up in the sky! It’s …scholarship! Well, my bibliography on Asian aviation anyway. More importantly, it looks like the whole Oxford Bibliog...
End of an Era
On this date, April 25, in 1644 the Chongzhen Emperor, last ruler of the Ming Dynasty hung himself from a tree on Meishan in Beiijng, bringing an end to Ming (a...
Chiang Kai-shek, Enemy of the People
I have found and interesting source. Dr Jeremy Taylor at the Department of History, University of Nottingham has a site entitled ‘Enemy of the People̵...
Chinese Manhua and social criticism
I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...
Books with “Laozi” on the cover
Konrad called my attention to Paul R. Goldin’s “Those Who Don’t Know Speak: Translations of the Daode Jing by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.”1 As you mig...
Going to college in China and the U.S.
Via Facebook, (somehow) I found this Chinese parents sleep in “tents of love” outside their college kids’ dorms to make the goodbyes easier Th...
Where’s my Flying Imperialism?
While googling around looking for advertising posters for Asian airlines of the 20’s and 30’s I found this. It is from a series of prints showing the Japanese e...
Who will Xi Jinping be?
If you have been following the Olympics (which I mostly have not) you probably watched the closing ceremonies, and saw Japan’s Prime Minister Abe zip thro...