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 ...
Author: Alan Baumler
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...
The threat of Chinese imperialism in the 1920’s- Teacher training edition
In the 1920’s officials in the Dutch East Indies became concerned about the threat of Chinese Imperialism. This was a new concern for them. For a very lon...
Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact
If you teach about Dunhuang, or the Tang dynasty, or inter-cultural contact, or just like to read interesting things, you should be aware of the Early Tibet web...
Understanding China-The interview
Stone Bridge Press is bringing out a deluxe edition of Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics, which I have been reviewing here and enjoying very m...
Do you want some pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo’s funeral?
Of course you do. Assuming you are interested in either the history of Christianity in Taiwan or funeral customs or.. well… China. More here.