The Will of a Traitor
There is a lot of treason to be found in the vicinity of LOC number DS777.5195.W34 in the Harvard-Yenching library. It’s Wang Jingwei (汪精衛) territory, inf...
Author: K. M. Lawson
Guides at Frog in a Well
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
Guides at Frog in a Well
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
Frog in a Well Guides: A Basic Guide to Resources on Japanese Colonialism
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
The Japanese to the Rescue
From 1902 until 1923 the British and Japanese were military allies, bound to support each other in the case of a war with more than a single power and a promise...
Some Good Old Treaty Port Humor
I found this gem in a June 21, 1900 Washington Post article: It is a cute, and surely manufactured story, but it does get at something I have wondered about: di...
Modern Digital Library vs Google Books
When the Japanese National Diet Library started putting Meiji period and Taishō period books online and fully viewable in their Modern Digital Library (近代デジタルライ...
Source: Chinese Canadian Newspapers
Historical sources of various kinds are making it online all the time. I recently came across a digital collection of Chinese newspapers from Canada available a...
Wartime Dog Killing Squads
The Chinese Communist campaign against animals that is most talked about is the Four Pests campaign of the late 1950s launched against various pests and sparrow...
Aizawa Yasushi on America
In the Prefatory Remarks to Aizawa Yasushi‘s 1825 New Theses (新論) we find an interesting little gloss on the relationship of the “Divine Realm”...
Japanese Soldiers Use an Accountant’s Trick
I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...
A Farmer Learns his Chinese Characters
I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...
Now in Firefox: Korean Newspapers at the National Library
I just heard from one of our fellow contributors here at Frog in a Well that the National Library of Korea now offers limited support for a variety of browsers!...
Japan's Embassies to the Tang and Ming
Hop over to Frog in a Well Japan to read about the new resources page at the Sino-Japanese Studies journal.
Japan’s Embassies to the Tang and Ming
The newly relaunched Sino-Japanese Studies open access journal is coming along nicely with a selection of articles and translations, including many translated c...