The Ethics of Book Reviews
Recently I stumbled upon an adulatory book review I wrote of Haruo Shirane’s Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô, a book...
Category: Academia
Academic Life
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...
Our Future, more or less
The head of the Japan Foundation (to whom I, like so many, owe thanks) has made some comments on the state and future of Japan Studies. It’s his job, afte...
Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories
Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...
A Break With Tradition
I’m going to break with Frog In A Well tradition this once, and comment here on something that has almost nothing to do with Asian history. I could easily...
Fuji Kawashima, 1938-2006
The Korean Studies mailing list has been full of people’s recollections of the the Koreanist Fuji Kawashima of Bowling Green State University, who died re...
Duelling histories? Part 2
Continuing on the subject of the new, controversial history book 해방 전후사의 재인식 (‘A new understanding of Korea’s liberation’), I wanted to link to this rather help...
Duelling histories? Part 1
Another couple of history-related articles from the English-language Korean media that were brought to my attention on the mailing list of the British Associati...
Data: Personal v. Historical
A recent initiative in the US to limit access to birth and death records [via] along with other personal data would severely limit the ability of historical and...
Academia/Books and Articles/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/International Affairs/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Politics/昭和
Colonialogy
I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...
Frog In A Well Project wins Best Group History Blog
The Cliopatria Awards for best history blogging have been announced and the three Frog in a Well blogs have been selected the Best Group Blog “After much ...
History Carnival #22
Welcome to History Carnival #22, the final edition of 2005. I’m deeply grateful to Sharon Howard for starting this whole thing off eleven months ago, and ...
Cinema, nationalism, and nostalgia
I have just finished reading a new book on Korean cinema (New Korean Cinema, New York: NYU Press, 2005, edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Springer). It was a sa...