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Academia/Anecdotes/Historiography

Jonathan Spence has ascended to heaven on a dragon

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Well, actually, that is how the death of the emperor was announced in the 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor, which came out just as I was starting ...

Academia/Historiography/Pedagogy/Textbooks/Theory

Why Read Wineburg?

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Like a lot of people, I got my copy of Sam Wineburg’s new book Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) [University of Chicago Press, 201...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Carnivals

April History Carnival! #164!

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Happy April! Most April Fools Jokes will fall into the May carnival, of course, but I can’t help noting two: American Historical Association, which really...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Blogs and Carnivals

History Carnival #160

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Welcome to the November 2016 History Carnival! It’s been a while since I hosted a carnival, and a while since I was blogging regularly, as well. Unless yo...

Academia/visual culture

To love the nation, you must buy a poster

Posted on July 2, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A while back I posted about a poster from the Chinese Posters site, lamenting that they did not seem to have a copy of “To Love the Country You Must First...

Academia/Literature

David Todd Roy has died

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This saddens me a great deal. I saw him speak years ago when only one volume of his Jin Ping Mei translation was out, and I wondered if he would finish. He did ...

Academia/Asian American

Edward Alsworth Ross and the good old days of scholarship

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Edward Alsworth Ross  was the father of modern Sociology, or maybe Criminology or Anthropology (disciplines were harder to distinguish back then) and also a maj...

Academia/Historiography

Its hard out there for a party historian

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Xie Chuntao, the chief historian at the Central Party School has recently expressed an opinion that some parts of China’s history are closed, and likely t...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

Academia/Anecdotes/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Reading Emily Whewell’s review of this new book on the Chinese and Japanese treaty port systems and extraterritoriality brought back a long-ago scholarly ...

Academia/Diaspora/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism

Moving Migration Into History

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via Aaron Bady, I saw a wonderful article by Imke Sturm-Martin about the challenges of integrating migration history into the mainstream of European historical ...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Education/Historiography/Japan

History Carnival CVI (December 2011-January 2012)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Welcome to the 106th Roundup of History Blogging, a double-sized edition. Fortunately, being a blog, we never really run out of space. First, the two biggest ev...

Academia/Anecdotes/Books and Articles/English/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/War/明治/江戸

Seppuku: A Samurai Suicide Miscellany

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For a little entertainment this Thanksgiving, I read Andrew Rankin’s Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide (Kodansha, 2011).1 Since I’m teaching bot...

Academia/Blog Carnival/General/Japan/Web Sites

Twitterstorian Anniversary

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

As an historian, I consider anniversaries irrelevant. However, as a social function, naturally, they matter a great deal, and the internet itself moves so quick...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

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