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...
Author: K. M. Lawson
舊版報紙資訊網: Initial Thoughts and Technical Review
I have been spending a few days looking at one of the important early postwar newspapers in Taiwan, 臺灣新生報, using the microfilm collection on the 6th floor Taiwa...
National Taiwan University Library
I’ve started an entry for the NTU Library at the EALA wiki. Besides the fact that this is a wonderful library by any international standard, I’m rea...
Corruption and the Use of Technical Experts in Taiwan 1946
Corruption was one of the biggest target of complaints by supporters and sworn enemies of the Chinese republic in wartime and early postwar China. This was also...
樂學書局: The Lexis Book Co.
Thanks to a tip shared by a fellow graduate student I met here yesterday, I learnt about another excellent academic bookstore here in Taipei which is, I’m...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Taiwan 1946: Asking, "What is Democracy?" – in Japanese
Over on Frog in a Well – Japan I wrote a posting about a 1946 Taiwanese pamphlet written in Japanese put out by 臺灣新生報 that may be of interest to readers o...
Taiwan 1946: Asking, “What is Democracy?” – in Japanese
I’m sitting in the Taiwanese National Library here in Taipei and just finished looking through an unusual publication put out in December, 1946 by 臺灣新生報社,...
Gregory Henderson Reporting on a Massacre
I’ve recently been looking through 한국전쟁과 집단학살 (Organized Massacres and the Korean War) by 김기진. The work focuses primarily on crimes against civilians carr...
Taiwan Bookstores EALA Page Updated
I have updated the Taiwan Bookstores page on the EALA wiki, adding two books and updating the link for SMC Publishing. If you are in Taipei and are looking for ...
If you prick Taiwanese savages, do they not bleed?
I want to share just one more short passage from Small Sea Travel Diaries, the English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiw...
Chinese Description of Dutch Suicide Tactics
Another quick quote from Small Sea Travel Diaries, the English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiwan in the 17th century b...
A Moment of Humility
I just finished reading Small Sea Travel Diaries which is an English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiwan in the 17th cen...