Migration, Nationalism, Empire
Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s recent Japan Focus article, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empi...
Author: Jonathan Dresner
Asian History Carnival 21
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Asian History Carnival 21:1
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Asian History Carnival #21 is up
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
The Sideshow in Korea?
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean...
I hate this time of year
I still hate this time of year. Though the post and comments are of generally high quality, and the introduction of actual Japanese scholars and sources into th...
Old Friends in New Contexts
One of the fun things for me about the “Rise of China” and the prominence it continues to gain in Western media, economics and culture, is reconnect...
Needling Needham
The Needham Question is hot, hot, hot! Thanks to Simon Winchester’s The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked t...
End of Semester Bits-n-pieces
You grade sixty tests, and what do you get? Three months older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don’t you call me, cause I can’t go! I owe book orders ...
Academia/Archives/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/photography/War
Archival Incidents, or What is it with Pictures?
Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as “newly discovered” photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. ...
Authors/Books/China/Culture/Current Events/Literature/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Teaching/Translation
New Chinese Literature
The New York Times has published three reviews of new Chinese works in translation: Wang Anyi’s The Song of Everlasting Sorrow, Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong (pen na...
Academia/bibliography/Books and Articles/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Science and Technology/US-Japan/明治
Wonders of Modern Life
I’m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, ｼﾞｬﾊﾟﾆｰｽﾞﾃﾞｲｱｽﾎﾟﾗ, 足立伸子 （編著), including my article ...
China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Okinawa/War/昭和
How do you say “Fast of the First Born” in Japanese?
I was thinking about whether to even attempt a contribution to the latest symposium on the role of historical animosities — and their appeasement — ...
Remembering Meiji: Translations
Keene includes several extended reminiscences of Meiji published immediately after his death. Unfortunately, some are included in the original French (pp. 707 a...
Studying Keene’s Emperor Meiji
Much of my Meiji Japan course is taken up with Donald Keene’s Emperor of Japan: Meiji and his World, 1852-1912. It’s been a pretty good experience, ...