December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few Korea bits. Also lots of other neat stuff.
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December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few China bits. Even a few from elsewhere! Also lots of other neat stuff.
Let us give thanks
China Daily has a nice article on attempts to import the American/Canadian holiday Thanksgiving into China. Some foreign holidays fit well with Chinese culture,...
Down with the Xia!
People who have been following the Three Dynasties chronology debate have already seen this article by Li Liu and Hong Xu “Rethinking Erlitou: legend, his...
Coming Soon: The 21st Asian History Carnival
The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations fo...
Changeless China (post 3,743 in a series)
Strange Maps (quite possibly the coolest blog in the universe) has this map of more-or-less Han China. The map comes from here, and is part of a summary of a &#...
Chinese history sucks
As a profession anyway. Historians are notorious for thinking that the past matters a lot, and most of us even think the past matters even if it has nothing to ...
More public sphere
Lots of stuff out there on how response to the earthquake is leading to a more robust public sphere in China. People are self-organizing, money is being collect...
The end of polygamy in China
As some of our American readers may know the California Supreme Court has recently ruled that men and men in California can get married. This has led a number o...
1911 in pictures
Via BibliOdyssey an exhibition of the prints of the 1911 revolution from Princeton. The prints are great, if a little small. One thing that struck me was the di...
Different understandings of history
Charles links below to an interesting piece from China Digital Times (original from Sina.com ) It is a piece by Xiong Peiyun (熊培云) defending (sort of) Chinese n...
China's Robinson Crusoe
I’ve been reading Wolf Totem and having a lot of fun doing so. The book, based on Jiang Rong’s time as a sent-down youth in Inner Mongolia. was a hu...
Upcoming Asian History Carnival
Jeremiah Jenne over at Jottings from the Granite Studio1 will be hosting an Asian history carnival sometime during the week of May 5th. If you have postings you...
Upcoming Asian History Carnival
Jeremiah Jenne over at Jottings from the Granite Studio1 will be hosting an Asian history carnival sometime during the week of May 5th. If you have postings you...
You can't say that
CDT has a list of the keywords that Chinese internet censors are looking for and banning. This is an old list from 2004,1 but some new words have been added lat...