Harvard to Digitize Chinese Rare Book Collection
I just read on H-Asia that Harvard has announced last week that, in cooperation with the National Library of China, it will be scanning its 51,500 volumes of Ch...
Author: K. M. Lawson
Relationship between Modern and Pre-modern studies
The relationship between modern and pre-modern studies in history is the source of lively debate and often much mutual misunderstanding. I’d like to welco...
Working to Protect Your Human Rights
In Communist controlled “liberated districts” of Japanese occupied China, your local treason elimination squad was directed to safeguard your human ...
The Relaunching of Sino-Japanese Studies
I wanted to post a plug for a project that I have been involved with recently: Announcing the relaunch of Sino-Japanese Studies online For fifteen years Sino-Ja...
The Relaunching of Sino-Japanese Studies
I wanted to post a plug for a project that I have been involved with recently: Announcing the relaunch of Sino-Japanese Studies online For fifteen years Sino-Ja...
Conference in Japan on Media in the Foreign Concessions
If you understand Japanese, are in Tokyo, and interested in the history of the foreign concessions of China, you may find a conference being held at Waseda of i...
Conference: 日中ジャーナリズム研究サミット
The 20世紀メディア研究所, which produces the wonderful journal Intelligence and helps manage the amazing online database index of the Prange archive of early postwar Jap...
1946 Drawings of Japanese Leaving Taiwan
The Japanese began their exodus from what was once colonial Taiwan soon after their defeat in 1945, but the departures really peaked in the spring of 1946 as al...
Newspaper Digitization at Shandong Provincial Library
I am currently spending my days at a microfilm machine in the basement of Shandong Provincial library, looking through old wartime newspapers from occupied and ...
Japanese City Plans and Topographical Maps from the US Occupation
While I’m sure there are a lot of similar resources that deserve equal mention, I wanted to post a link while it is fresh on my mind. There are a great co...
Online China Maps at the University of Texas
While I’m sure there are a lot of similar resources that deserve equal mention, I wanted to post a link while it is fresh on my mind. There are a great co...
Beware of Female Spies
I decided to bring you a little Friday night clipping from the archives where, as always, I have my eye open for treason and treachery: In the Chinese national ...
Documentary on Taiwanese Child Laborers in WWII
A friend of mine here in Taiwan lent me what is probably the best historical documentary I have seen in a long time: 緣的海平線 SHONENKO 臺灣少年工的故事. Whenever I come ac...
Coming Soon: 21st Asian History Carnival
The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations fo...
Coming Soon: The 21st Asian History Carnival
The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations fo...