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Category: 1970s

1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

1970s/China

The American Geographical Society’s China

Posted on August 25, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

In a recent posting, I took a look at the Taiwan volume in an old series of colorful books called the “Around the World Program” published by the Am...

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Economics/Teaching

Teaching export-led growth

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach about export-led growth in Asia? Like to talk about the process of oh, say China, gradually exporting increasing amounts of stuff to the U.S., and ...

1970s/Culture/Current Events

Who will Xi Jinping be?

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you have been following the Olympics (which I mostly have not) you probably watched the closing ceremonies, and saw Japan’s Prime Minister Abe zip thro...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/Contemporary/Korea-Japan/Korean War/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945

Posted on August 7, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...

1970s/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Nuclear Power in Korea / Domestic and International

Posted on March 17, 2011 by John P. DiMoia / 2 Comments

Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the com...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.

1960s/1970s/General/Historiography/Korea/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Postwar

“Prosthetic Memories”

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Seungsook Moon at Japan Focus has an interesting historiographical essay about the contested life and legacy of Park Chung Hee, who led Korea through the 60s an...

1960s/1970s/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korea’s engagement with the world

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I remember the shocked look on my students’ faces fifteen years ago when I told them that we actually had no idea how decisions were made or leaders picke...

1970s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Labor/Politics

KTX female attendants – “contingent labour” fights back

Posted on July 16, 2007 by noja / 4 Comments

There was a time in Korean labour movement history in the 1970s when it were the female workers who actually led the most militant part of the struggle. The rea...

1960s/1970s/Books and Articles

Kim Hwanp’yo and his “Ssalpap chŏnchaeng”

Posted on July 16, 2006 by noja / 1 Comment

Several days ago, I was happy to be presented a newly published book by the publishers who had also earlier printed two of my own books – that is, by Seou...

1970s/Cultural/Korea/Law

The Marijuana Crisis of ’75

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Owen / 2 Comments

I’ve been dipping into an excellent book on the history of Korean popular music now and then (이혜숙 & 손우석 – 한국대중음악사) and came across a fascinatin...

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