Par for the course…
I never thought I’d be citing Sports Illustrated here (Alan started it!) [via], but a Chinese historian has found references from over a thousand years ag...
Author: Jonathan Dresner
Lumpy Chinese History
There are a few places to go for archived syllabi — H-Net, ExEAS, I had a printed collection at one point, as well, then there’s the GMU Syllabus Fi...
Frog In A Well Project wins Best Group History Blog
The Cliopatria Awards for best history blogging have been announced and the three Frog in a Well blogs have been selected the Best Group Blog “After much ...
Frog In A Well Project wins Best Group History Blog
The Cliopatria Awards for best history blogging have been announced and the three Frog in a Well blogs have been selected the Best Group Blog “After much ...
Frog In A Well Project wins Best Group History Blog
The Cliopatria Awards for best history blogging have been announced and the three Frog in a Well blogs have been selected the Best Group Blog “After much ...
Gang of Four is Gone
Yao Wenyuan, the last surviving member of the Gang of Four — the others were Mao’s wife Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, and Zhang Chunqiao — has die...
Japan’s Elites, Update
Last summer, I responded to a request for scholarly opinion on the “leaders” of Japan from 1840-1920. Ms. Kim has now completed compiling responses ...
Berry on Early Modern Information
I admit that I’m a great admirer of Berry, but this is going to be fun. My own thoughts about Early modern Japan as an intellectual renaissance are going ...
It’s not an institution if it doesn’t have rules….
Via World Press Review, an interesting account of undercurrents of opposition to changing the Imperial Household Law to allow female emperors or emperors descen...
History Carnival #22
Welcome to History Carnival #22, the final edition of 2005. I’m deeply grateful to Sharon Howard for starting this whole thing off eleven months ago, and ...
Cheng-Zhu or Chengs v. Zhu?
I didn’t make a big thing of it in class, and nobody seems to have noticed the discrepancy, but there’s something of a disparity between my World Hi...
Another Nail in the Ninja Coffin
In response to a query on the H-Japan list, samurai historian par excellance Karl Friday wrote: There are basically no publications in English on ninja worth re...
Revision and Revisionism
Deep in the middle of a roundtable about constitutional revision and neo-nationalism in Japan, comes a bit of discussion of historical revision and popular beli...