City Hall
I didn’t attend the liberation day festivities last night or the ones that continue outside city hall as I write this posting. I did drop by this morning,...
Author: K. M. Lawson
It’s August 15th
It’s August 15th hear in Korea and you know what that means? It is a time to celebrate Korea’s independence from its colonial master in 1945 and som...
Asian History Carnival #16
Welcome to the 16th Asian History Carnival. When you find interesting and original weblog postings related to Asian history, consider tagging them at del.icio.u...
Asian History Carnival #16
The Sixteenth Asian History Carnival is now up! Check it out over at the Japan history weblog.
Asian History Carnival #16
The Sixteenth Asian History Carnival is now up! Check it out over at the Japan history weblog.
Poverty and Prison Camps
I recently finished reading Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949 by Frank Dikötter. You can find pictures from the book posted on his we...
Ancient Japan Blog
I recently came across the Ancient Japan weblog. Looking through its archives, I see that it has been offering up interesting postings for over a year now and j...
Encyclopedia of Shinto
I was just catching up on my reading of H-Japan postings, when I came across an announcement that I thought might be worth sharing with those who don’t su...
Japan in the Hall of Asian Peoples
Over at my own blog Muninn I have posted an entry talking a bit about the portray of Japan and Korea in the “Hall of Asian Peoples” in New York̵...
Korea: The Uniqueness
Over at my own blog Muninn I have posted an entry talking a bit about the portray of Japan and Korea in the “Hall of Asian Peoples” in New York̵...
US Consular Report on Events in Taiwan after 2.28
Though I haven’t read much on the events surrounding the 2.28 violence in Taiwan in 1947, it generated a lot of paperwork for the state department which I...
United States Wartime Propaganda in China
While looking through 1945-50 US State Department documents—the same collection where I came accross Zhu De’s request for a $20 million US loan to buy off...
Zhu De's Request for a $20 Million Favor
In the Sino-Japanese conflict that stretched from the 1930s until 1945 Chinese “puppet” military forces were to be found wherever Japanese occupatio...
RG242: Foreigners in North Korea
There are all sorts of interesting materials in the National Archives collection of Captured North Korean Documents in record group 242 that I introduced in an ...
AHC #13
The Thirteenth Asian History Carnival is now up over at my personal weblog Muninn! In addition to the usual selection of blog postings I have added a section to...