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Category: Anecdotes

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 ...

Anecdotes/Contemporary/Current Events/Current/Recent Events

Internet Culture and Rough Music

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Not really a post, but more of an idea. I ran across this, about victims of the alleged Las Vegas  shooting who are being harassed on-line. I say alleged, becau...

Anecdotes/Film/明治

Delayed Reaction, or, I get mail.

Posted on March 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

In response to my review of The Last Samurai movie, I got the following email yesterday: The text reads: Message From: your mom Message: I read your review of &...

Anecdotes/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Li Bai and the whale

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the books I will be using in class this Fall is Sanyan Stories by Feng Menglong. In class we will be using the much condensed version from University of ...

Anecdotes/China-U.S.

Modern media culture was born in China. In 1931.

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Did you know that Charles Lindbergh, the biggest media star of the 1930’s, went to China? Well, I didn’t. He was there in 1931, after he had become ...

Anecdotes/China/Classics

Confucius say….

Posted on May 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

For many years I have wanted to find a fortune cookie that actually had a piece of paper with “Confucius Say:…” followed by an actual quote fr...

Anecdotes/China/Post-Mao/visual culture

Chairman Xi serves the people

Posted on March 18, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Offbeat China has some official cartoons showing Xi Jinping as an ordinary guy who can sit cross-legged just like folks. I guess now that Gary Locke has officia...

Anecdotes/China/Classics/Pre-Han/Teaching

Ancient Music in the Academy

Posted on October 5, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Confucius liked to talk about Rites and Music. Thus I have to spend a lot of time explaining to students why. Most Americans are more like Mozi Mozi asked a Con...

Anecdotes/Books/China/English

The Chinese are topsy-turvy

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One common theme that turns up a lot in older Western writings on China is the idea that China is the opposite of the West. Just take our, normal, rational way ...

Anecdotes/China/Intellectual/Pre-Han/Teaching

Mixing water with water

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is a dialogue (from the Zuozhuan) I used in class this week. The Duke declares “It is Ju alone who is in harmony with me.” Yanzi replied, “Ju is in f...

Anecdotes/China/Diplomacy/English/Imperialism

A clash of symbols

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

In the introduction of Julia Lovell’s The Opium War she discusses an incident from November, 2010. David Cameron had gone to China, and it being November ...

Anecdotes/Books/China/English/Historiography/Imperialism

History and hats

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

One book that I use in my classes is Bickers’ Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. The book is the story of William Tinkler, an Englishman wh...

Anecdotes/China/East vs West/Education/English

Going Native

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is something from Edward V. Gulick Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939. 1 When Gulick came to China he was a young, idealistic part of the...

Anecdotes/Books/China/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs..

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 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/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 ...

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