Protests, national identity, and food
Via LGM I find this piece on anti KFC protests in China. KFC was once known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, but they have changed their name to KFC, in part to make ...
Author: Alan Baumler
Multi-cultural Chiang Kai-shek
Here is a nice picture of Chiang Kai-shek and his government’s outreach to minority nationalities. It comes from 蒙藏月報1935,3(6) (Mongolia and Tibet Monthly...
Chinese government graphics
One thing that you notice when you look at Chinese government reports and such from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s is how amazing the graphics are. I ...
To love the nation, you must buy a poster
A while back I posted about a poster from the Chinese Posters site, lamenting that they did not seem to have a copy of “To Love the Country You Must First...
David Todd Roy has died
This saddens me a great deal. I saw him speak years ago when only one volume of his Jin Ping Mei translation was out, and I wondered if he would finish. He did ...
Visual Digital History
Laura Putnam has an article out in the new issue of AHR “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast“ One...
The Oriental and its readership
Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...
Archives, China and America: A Review of Wang Chengzhi and Su Chen
Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Wang, Chengzhi, and Su Chen. Archival Resources of Republican China in North America. Columbia University Press, 2...
Syllabus blogging for Fall 2016
I seem to have forgotten to blog about syllabus ideas for the current semester, so I am going to do something unprecedented to make up for it, which is to blog ...
Mei Lanfang and Bertold Brecht
Looking for a nice little piece on Mei Lanfang’s 1935 Moscow performances witnessed by (among others) Bertold Brecht? Here you go. There is a nice...
For my next impression, Josephine Owens!
This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...
Teaching Japan with films
Next semester I will be teaching a class on Modern Japan (Meiji to the present) and I was thinking of having them watch some films. I am guessing this will be d...
Edward Alsworth Ross and the good old days of scholarship
Edward Alsworth Ross was the father of modern Sociology, or maybe Criminology or Anthropology (disciplines were harder to distinguish back then) and also a maj...
Teaching about lives
Since James Joshua Hudson brought it up on Facebook, I thought I would say something about teaching with Robert Bickers’ Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in...
Sidney Mintz
Not that I have much to say about it, but if you are interested in the history of commodities or consumption or of the links between anthropology and history th...