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Author: Jonathan Dresner

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“What I Read Over Summer Vacation” (part one?)

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’ve been on something of a tear through my to-read pile in search of… well, I’m not entirely sure some days. A lot of what’s in that st...

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The Marie Kondo thing

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’ve been avoiding getting into the debate about Marie Kondo’s konmari brand of modernist orientalism, mostly because I’m not that interested,...

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On the opening vignette as pedagogy

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

A passage I wrote for one of my online course discussion boards: One of my pet peeves about textbook, history, and journalistic writing is the use of the “...

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Pedagogy In The Wild

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In a thoughtful discussion of teaching at USIH, I commented In addition to all the other qualifications and tensions around teaching, there are gaps between dis...

Books/Gender/Historiography

Women Warriors in Japanese History? Yes, but…

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The subtitle to this article tells you most of what you need to know: Christobel Hasting, “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan’s Women Samurai, Were Era...

Academia/Historiography/Pedagogy/Textbooks/Theory

Why Read Wineburg?

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Like a lot of people, I got my copy of Sam Wineburg’s new book Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) [University of Chicago Press, 201...

China/Gender

Too Many Men Again

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s an article about China making the rounds: “Too Many Men” ; “In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. Both nations ...

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

Cultural/Culture/Guides/Japanese/Public History/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

A brief note on Google Culture

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Google Culture is apparently producing some original content: “A brief history of Kimono” https://shinpaideshou.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/fun-link-fr...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

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On “Buddhist Atrocities”

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the odd substrains of commentary on the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Myanmar is Americans (mostly, as near as I can tell) shocked that a Buddhist society...

Choson/Foreign Views/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/安土桃山

Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender and Yi Soon Shin: Fallen Avenger: Bad

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

At Planet Comicon in Kansas City last month, I came across a gentleman selling a comic book series based on the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, known in Korea as ...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Carnivals

April History Carnival! #164!

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Happy April! Most April Fools Jokes will fall into the May carnival, of course, but I can’t help noting two: American Historical Association, which really...

Anecdotes/Film/明治

Delayed Reaction, or, I get mail.

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

In response to my review of The Last Samurai movie, I got the following email yesterday: The text reads: Message From: your mom Message: I read your review of &...

1960s/Books/China/Food/Yuan

Fake News? Chinese Cannibalism Cookbooks?

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Sy Montgomery’s review of CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History By Bill Schutt includes the following paragraph: Next time you eat Chinese, for example...

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