China is now Japan
It’s official. China is now Japan. Or, more specifically China is now the country that poor countries in the third world are supposed to be emulating. Whe...
Category: Blogs and Carnivals
Beer in China
Robert Bickers has a nice post up at China Beat on the early history of Qingdao beer. Its a good post and sheds a lot of light on the early history of what is n...
Basic principles of Chinese History
From China Geeks via CDT the basic principles needed to write Chinese history. As one commenter pointed out, they would almost work as the principles to write a...
Shanghai gets ready for its close-up
If you are tired of reading about the past, you could read about the future instead. Gina Russo has a great pair of posts up at China Beat on Shanghai’s p...
It was twenty years ago today
If three times is a trend then there is now a trend of historical liveblogging about China. CDT is doing a liveblog of the Tiananmen demonstrations for the 20th...
Bad sons
Over at A Ku Indeed Chris asks about Mencius 4A28, in which Mencius commends Shun for transforming his father. He (Shun) considered that if one could not get t...
History Carnival #75: Semisesquicentennial! Terquasquigenary! Septuagesiquintennial!
Note: The History Carnival is still looking for a May 1st host, as well as hosts for the summer and beyond. Contact Sharon Howard (sharon$@$earlymodernweb$.$org...
Academics read the newspaper
And find good things (On time zones in China) And bad things (On Qing cultural history) Both of these articles are attempts by non-specialists to explain China,...
Bad Daoism
Calling Sam Crane. Apparently Laozi is the best way to understand modern American Conservatism. Original here. Favorable notice here. It is nice to know that L...
Mysteries of History (transportation division)
Here is a bit of a puzzle for our readers to clear up. A while back I pointed at a nice collection of 17th Century Dutch pictures of Japan. Jonathan Dresner was...
Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?
John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, p...
Making China democratic
Over at A Ku Indeed people have been discussing Bell’s East and West, which is an attempt to create a dialogue between Western and Eastern concepts of rig...
Liveblogging the Boxers
Military historian David Silbey is going to be blogging through the Boxer Uprising as seen through the New York Times. Though this is a little more of a distant...
I like sex better than bear paws
Over at A Ku Indeed people, including myself, have been discussing Daniel Bell’s East Meets West which looks at the importation of foreign concepts of hum...
Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face
What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...