Skip to content
Frog in a Well
  • About
  • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Open Access Journals Related to East and Southeast Asia
    • Missionary Perspectives on China
    • Modern Korean History
    • History of Taiwan
    • History of Burma
    • History of the Malay World
    • Bibliography: The History of History in East Asia
    • Primary Source Nuggets

Category: Archives

Archives/Teaching/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

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...

Archives/Sino-Japanese Wars/War/Web Sites and Resources

China-Burma-India and popular history sources

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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/Books

Archives, China and America: A Review of Wang Chengzhi and Su Chen

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

  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...

Archives/Authors/China

News from the City of Five Rams

Posted on January 30, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Archaeology/Archives/China/Teaching/Web Sites and Resources

Happy birthday Dunhuang Project

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Archives/China/English/Republican

National Library of China- A fine place to do research

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  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&#...

Archives/bibliography/Guides/Libraries/Okinawa

Collecting Local Materials in Okinawa

Posted on May 12, 2011 by sayaka / 3 Comments

It seems there is increasing attention to Okinawan history recently. Okinawa is such an obviously interesting place for its own rich cultures, languages, custom...

Archives/bibliography/Guides/Libraries

Collecting Local Materials in Miyagi

Posted on April 17, 2011 by sayaka / 2 Comments

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...

Archives/English/Events/Foreign Views/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

December 7, 1941, Pittsburg, Kansas

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Archives/Web Sites

Modern Digital Library vs Google Books

Posted on March 18, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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...

Archives/China/Current Events/English

Looking behind the curtain

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

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 ...

Academia/Archives/Art/Cultural/General/Historiography/Japan/Maps/Museums/Teaching/Web Sites

Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scannin...

Archives/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Web Sites

Dangerous Data

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Archives/China

The Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House.

Posted on December 8, 2008 by gina / 0 Comment

Robert Culp’s Articulating Citizenship and other articles[1] claim that the largest holdings of textbooks is in the Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing Ho...

Archives/China/China-Japan/Sino-Japanese Wars

Beware of Female Spies

Posted on August 22, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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 ...

Posts navigation

1 2 Next »

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org
© 2023 Frog in a Well
Powered by WordPress | Theme: Graphy by Themegraphy