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Category: Aviation

Aviation/Science / Technology/Science and Technology

Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Hey look! Up in the sky! It’s …scholarship! Well, my bibliography on Asian aviation anyway. More importantly, it looks like the whole Oxford Bibliog...

Aviation/Japan/visual culture/War

Where’s my Flying Imperialism?

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

While googling around looking for advertising posters for Asian airlines of the 20’s and 30’s I found this. It is from a series of prints showing the Japanese e...

Aviation/Republican/visual culture

Multi-cultural Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a nice picture of Chiang Kai-shek and his government’s outreach to minority nationalities. It comes from 蒙藏月報1935,3(6) (Mongolia and Tibet Monthly...

Aviation/visual culture/War

Chinese government graphics

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One thing that you notice when you look at Chinese government reports and such from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s is how amazing the graphics are. I ...

Aviation/Diaspora/Gender/visual culture

The Oriental and its readership

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...

Aviation/Culture/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...

Aviation/Gender/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Oriental Women

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the “First Chinese civilian aviator.” In her various tours of No...

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