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China from “Over There” to “Back Then”: A Second Helping on E.A. Ross

Posted on November 3, 2016 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Alan Baumler’s juicy February 19 post “Edward Alsworth Ross and The Good Old Days of Scholarship,” inspired me to look back through my notes.1...

Articles/China/Education/Web Sites and Resources

Chinese philosophy: The wild goose gradually draws near the tree

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Update-The wild goose is getting closer to the tree Apparently we are experiencing a Chinese Philosophy Fever. The Atlantic has an article up on Michael Puett&#...

Articles/China/Labor/Teaching

China on the move

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I found a nice paper on migration inside China from Vox 1 They look at migrations inside China, and find a lot of things that you would expect. Network effects ...

Articles/China/Civil War/English/General/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Taiwan

Revising history: Brief notes

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Quick hits: It’s one of the most difficult periods of modern history to teach, and I love using primary sources for the tough times, so I’m always g...

Articles/China/Countryside/Japan/Ming/Pigs/Social History/visual culture

Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map

Posted on July 2, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...

Articles/China/Identity/Imperialism/Tibet

Learning about Tibet III

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Having learned any number of things about Tibet recently I thought I would learn some more, and thankfully the new Modern China (34.2) arrived with an interesti...

Articles/China/Diplomacy

How many times can we lose China?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

via James Fallows a link to James C. Thomson’s “How Could Vietnam Happen?” a 1968 piece that The Atlantic has lifted from their archive. Thoms...

Articles/China/Current Events/Economics/English/Japan/Post-Mao

China's Traditional, right?

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Cultural Revolution? Yan’an Purge? It’s an ugly campaign season, a mix of talent show, debate, old-fashioned politicking and dirty tricks. It’...

Articles/China/China-U.S./Current Events/English/Japan

Accumulated History: A miscellany

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

As always, stuff for which I don’t give a tip of the hat mostly came from HNN Pushing back, archaeology style: 8000 year old writing probably early form o...

Articles/China/Chinese/Countryside/Pigs/Republican/Social History

Pigs, Shit, and Chinese History, Or Happy Year of the Pig

Posted on January 28, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the y...

Articles/China/China-Japan/English/Historiography/War

Japanese War Related Survey and its Results

Posted on July 10, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

Sasaki Kei, one of our contributors at the Japanese history blog here at Frog in a Well pointed out some results of a survey recently released in the Japanese p...

Articles/Books/China/Civil War/English/Historiography/War

Women on the Long March

Posted on March 16, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Natalie Bennett reports that a new oral history investigation of the Long March experience is being published. Over 10 months, travelling mainly by bus and trai...

Articles/China/China-Korea/English/General/Historiography/Post-Mao/Social History

World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?

Posted on February 13, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...

Articles/China/China-Japan/Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Colonialogy

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

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 ...

Articles/China/English/Ethnic Minorities/General/Historiography/Japan

Boundaries within Asia

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Interesting article on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists —...

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