Cities and Nationalisms Conference
This conference will take place in London on 17-18 June 2010. “Cities have been intimately connected with nationalisms of many kinds. The architecture and spati...
Author: katrina
'China Network' at Cambridge
If you will forgive the promotion, this may be of interest to other Frogs… Cambridge University’s humanities centre (CRASSH) recently received fundi...
Shanghai and Modernity
I am currently working on a paper about Shanghai and modernity – obviously a lot of work has been done on that from the perspective of Chinese modernity b...
One for the military historians
In preparing the Asian History Carnival, a variety of things turned up in my inbox – in between some very tempting deals on pharmaceuticals. Today I recei...
Asian History Carnival #4
It’s up now at Miscellany. It’s been slightly updated since I first put it up, Konrad sent me a few extra pieces.
Asian History Carnival
I’ll be hosting the next edition of the Asian History Carnival over at my site Miscellany on Friday 5th May. Please get any suggestions to me before then ...
Graduate Conference at Columbia
I participated in the East Asia Graduate Students conference at the weekend, and it was great to meet so many people working in the field, especially those with...
AHA Panel Proposal
Hello everyone I am trying to put together a panel for the AHA next year. I am interested in the construction of modern womanhood in early 20th century culture ...
Katrina Gulliver: Self-introduction
I have just realised that despite posting a couple of times here, I have not actually introduced myself properly to the Frog in a Well community! So belatedly, ...
danger + opportunity
This entry on pinyin.info looks at the misunderstanding of the construction of characters. This tendency – particularly among the writers of motivational/...
Windschuttle on Mao
I am feeling very remiss for not having posted since Konrad gave me a log-in. I am a PhD student at Cambridge looking at China and Southeast Asia. My dissertati...