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Category: Anecdotes

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...

Anecdotes/China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Japanese

From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 23, 2011 by sayaka / 4 Comments

Earlier this month, I met a descendent of the Taiwanese aboriginal group, Sysiyat tribe (賽夏族), and his wife. The Sysiyat is a relatively small tribe living in W...

Anecdotes/China/China-U.S./Current Events/Economics/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...

Anecdotes/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts

Young Samurai II: A Bad Start

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I picked up the second installment of the Young Samurai at the library today. I was thinking about starting it, and looked at the back inside dust cover, where ...

Academia/Anecdotes/Foreign Views/Japan/Religion/US-Japan/昭和

Japan as apocalyptic fulfillment

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I have to get to my AAS blogging, I know, but I have to share something I ran across reading — of all things — David Walsh’s HNN reports from ...

Anecdotes/China/English

Dogs again

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

As a follow-up to Konrad’s post below I came across something on dogs in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, where he is lamenting the passing of the old city, ...

Anecdotes/China-Japan/War/昭和

Japanese Soldiers Use an Accountant’s Trick

Posted on December 30, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...

Anecdotes/China/Sino-Japanese Wars

A Farmer Learns his Chinese Characters

Posted on December 30, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...

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