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Category: 1911

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...

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...

1911/Maps/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image I use in class, from Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China New York: Facts on File, 1983. p.158. This has some good images i...

1911/Teaching/visual culture

Visual Shanghai

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I went to the Shanghai History Museum today and got some nice teaching-related images. Some of them are useful, but not that exciting, like a nice rickshaw and ...

1911/China/Teaching/visual culture

Picturing the 1911 Revolution

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via the comments1 to this post I see that Oberlin has posted an on-line version of History of China for 1912 in 52 cartoons These seem to be weekly cartoons pub...

1911/China/Public History/Taiwan

1911 in 2013

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I was going to do a post on how the Chinese world is remembering 1911, the overthrow of the Qing, and founding of the Chinese Republic. The answer seems to be t...

1911/China/English/Movies

Blood of the martyrs

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

The Chinese student group asked me to come out and talk at their showing of Jackie Chan’s 1911. As it was competing with the Stillers game attendance was ...

1911/China/English

Assassination and uprisings

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

On April 8th, 1911  five days before the scheduled Canton revolt an independent radical from Singapore assassinated the Manchu governor of Canton, Fu Qi. This t...

1911/China/English

Widespread Panic in 1911

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

On March 31, 1911, the Japanese consul in Fuzhou filed a report on Chinese concerns about foreign invasion. That foreigners were going to divvy China up into co...

1911/China/English/Republican/Revolution

Sun Yat-sen: If only a Revolution -were- like a dinner party

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Livebloging 1911 Someone once said “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined...

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