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Author: C. W. Hayford

Books/China/China-Japan/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Between Nanjing and Chongqing

Posted on July 10, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

I posted a piece on Asia Media (July 10 2008) which reviews Steve MacKinnon’s new book, Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Univer...

Articles/China/Countryside/Japan/Ming/Pigs/Social History/visual culture

Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map

Posted on July 2, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...

China/Current Events/Nationalism

Olympics, China's Dreams, and the Fear of Nationalism

Posted on May 11, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

The new book Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Harvard University Press) by Xu Guoqi 1 , is a good read but also a serious piece of research which us...

China/Culture/English/Identity/visual culture

East Meets West

Posted on April 21, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

Yang Liu , a Beijing artist trained in Germany, comments in a series of banners on the differences between Chinese and German culture. Ms. Yang’s Website ...

China/Teaching/Web Sites and Resources

Readings on Tibet

Posted on March 27, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

I’ve posted links to interesting recent articles on Tibet on a blog for my teachers’ workshop, ASIA: LEARNING FROM, TEACHING ABOUT.

China/China-U.S./English/Historiography/Teaching

Five Things That Didn’t Happen (But Might Have)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 18 Comments

Kate Merkel-Hess at China Beat had an intriguing list last month, Five Chinese Historical Events That Don’t Get Much Attention, (2/ 11/08) which was in turn ins...

China/China-U.S./Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette

Posted on January 8, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 6 Comments

The lively and informed blog, Jottings from the Granite Studio, January 8 has a well turned piece “This date in history: The Death of Zhou Enlai.” The piece sho...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Japan

Asian History Carnival #18

Posted on December 13, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 5 Comments

Somehow the items that have caught my eye since the last Asia Carnival are more cultural than historical – future carnivals will right the balance. But culture,...

China/China-U.S./Current Events

Don't Toy With China

Posted on November 6, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

I wrote an op-ed piece “Don’t Toy With China” for ASIA MEDIA, a web journal run by the UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE.  The piece looks at how the real i...

Academia/Cultural/Historiography/Popular Culture

Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home?

Posted on April 9, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 7 Comments

[A version of this piece was published on Japan Focus (April 4, 2007)] Baseball fans, lovers of a good fight, and those who are curious about how we go about un...

China/China-U.S./Countryside/Historiography/Revolution/Social History

When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant

Posted on February 25, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 36 Comments

After Mao Zedong died in 1976, they put his body on display in one of those see-through coffins which Lenin made popular. Shortly after, the NBC evening news co...

Archaeology/China/Chinese/Social History

Han Dynasty Pig Sty-Latrine

Posted on February 1, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Courtesy of the Minneapolis Museum of Art

Articles/China/Chinese/Countryside/Pigs/Republican/Social History

Pigs, Shit, and Chinese History, Or Happy Year of the Pig

Posted on January 28, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the y...

China/General

Charles W. Hayford Member Introduction

Posted on January 6, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 6 Comments

First, thanks for allowing me into the Frog in a Well project. You’ve set a high standard. I promise not to call it “Frog Blog” or “Frog in th...

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