Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎
Particularly as I work on the visual culture of aviation (one of my current projects) I am getting both encouraged and discouraged about the state of sources in...
Category: Archives
China-Burma-India and popular history sources
Looking for information on the American involvement in China in World War Two? Not too long ago that would have been the last thing anyone who did serious China...
Archives, China and America: A Review of Wang Chengzhi and Su Chen
Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Wang, Chengzhi, and Su Chen. Archival Resources of Republican China in North America. Columbia University Press, 2...
News from the City of Five Rams
Everybody on this blog is publishing stuff lately. The scholar formerly known as Gina Russo, now known as Gina Russo Tam, has a nice review up on the archives o...
Happy birthday Dunhuang Project
Did you know that this is the 20th anniversary of the International Dunhuang Project? Neither did I. They grow up so quick these international scholarly project...
National Library of China- A fine place to do research
Most of our readers who might care already know this, but the National Library in Beijing is a fine place to do research on Republican China. It has it&#...
Collecting Local Materials in Okinawa
It seems there is increasing attention to Okinawan history recently. Okinawa is such an obviously interesting place for its own rich cultures, languages, custom...
Collecting Local Materials in Miyagi
To express my deep gratitude to those who helped my research in Miyagi this summer, and to encourage more researchers to explore sources in Tohoku when things r...
December 7, 1941, Pittsburg, Kansas
One of our graduate assistants came in recently with an old newspaper that her husband had found on a deconstruction job. Considering that it was, apparently, s...
Modern Digital Library vs Google Books
When the Japanese National Diet Library started putting Meiji period and Taishō period books online and fully viewable in their Modern Digital Library (近代デジタルライ...
Looking behind the curtain
Inside the Archives One day after lunch when I returned to the Shaanxi Provincial Archives one of the employees asked if I would like to see the documents they ...
Dangerous Data
By now most of you have probably heard of the erasure of buraku — the segregated communities of Japanese outcastes — from Google Earth.1 The continu...
The Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House.
Robert Culp’s Articulating Citizenship and other articles[1] claim that the largest holdings of textbooks is in the Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing Ho...
Beware of Female Spies
I decided to bring you a little Friday night clipping from the archives where, as always, I have my eye open for treason and treachery: In the Chinese national ...