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Author: K. M. Lawson

Korea/Posts

The Banality of a New Spirit Movement 새마음운동

Posted on December 23, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

While poking around for English language materials to offer students on post-1945 South Korea, I came across The New Spirit Movement, a 1979 collection of short...

Korea/North Korea/Posts

Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal/Hwasal

Posted on November 13, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I’ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on  how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sour...

Food/Sources

Notes on Japanese Cuisine 1946

Posted on August 25, 2021 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I picked up a cheap copy of an old 19461 tourist pamphlet Notes on Japanese Cuisine by Katsumata Senkichirō (勝俣銓吉郎). I’ve scanned my copy and uploaded it ...

1970s/China

The American Geographical Society’s China

Posted on August 25, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

In a recent posting, I took a look at the Taiwan volume in an old series of colorful books called the “Around the World Program” published by the Am...

Taiwan

The American Geographical Society’s Taiwan

Posted on July 18, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

For over a decade, beginning around 1955, and then again during a short 1990s revival, the American Geographical Society (AGS) published a large series of color...

Syllabi/Teaching

Student Handbook for Fall 2020 – MO3055 The History of History in East Asia

Posted on June 27, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Inspired by Alan’s syllabus blogging for his History of East Asia class, I thought I would contribute my own new fall offering. Teaching in Scotland at my...

Japan/Taiwan/Textbooks

A Child’s Guide to Japanese Empire

Posted on June 7, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

I recently had the pleasure of browsing the 1936 edition of a most interesting children’s almanac or encyclopedia called the Gakuyū Nenkan (学友年鑑 School fr...

China/Maps

Historical Maps of Wuhan

Posted on March 29, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

As may be clear from my recent postings on rumours in Wuhan, the language of Wuhan, a timeline and bibliography about Wuhan, and a post on Wuhan on the eve of r...

1911

Rumours in Wuhan 1911

Posted on March 23, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

We live in a time of rumours. Often these rumors have little impact on our behavior, and at most can serve to relieve or exacerbate our indignation or dismissal...

China/Language

The Language of Wuhan

Posted on March 5, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The Wuhan dialect is often described as a “southwestern mandarin variety” of Chinese. For over a century foreigners, especially missionaries who liv...

Posts

A Wuhan Timeline and Bibliography

Posted on March 3, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The world’s attention has, for the most part, moved on from Wuhan, the city where the the Covid-19 virus outbreak began. Now the media both within and bey...

1911/China/Revolution

Wuhan on the Eve of a Revolution

Posted on March 1, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I stumbled across the American traveler William Edgar Geil’s Eighteen Capitals of China (1911). I wasn’t impressed. Even for its time, it is particu...

China/Film/Han Dynasty/Qin

The Last Supper (2012): Xiang Yu Overthrows the Qin in order to…protect Diversity?

Posted on February 4, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I’ve been listening to the lectures given by Prof. Ou Fan Leo Lee (李歐梵) for his Coursera course Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings from the C...

China/Classics/Games/Philosophy

Encountering Classical Chinese Philosophy Through Translation and a Text Adventure Game

Posted on January 28, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Over winter break I usually spend a good deal of time with my nephew, codename Loke, now 11 years-old. Over the past few years, I have hidden a bonus Christmas ...

China/Han Dynasty/Philosophy

Advice from Xu Gan in the Balanced Discourses

Posted on January 13, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Over the holidays I had a chance to read John Makeham’s translation of Xu Gan’s (170-217 CE) late Han dynasty Balanced Discourses 中論 (Ctext).1 The w...

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