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Books/Books and Articles/China/Teaching/visual culture

Teaching with old photographs

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One thing that I have started teaching with this semester is Ed Krebs and Hanchao Lu, eds., China in Family Photographs: A Peoples History of Revolution and Eve...

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

Books and Articles/Food/Japan/Nationalism

Science, Social Science, and Pseudoscience of Diet/Culture Thesis

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Eminent food historian Rachel Laudan alerted me recently to the existence of new scholarship, cultural psychology, giving support to the idea that different bas...

Books and Articles/English/Japan/Literature/Premodern/US-Japan/幕末/江戸

What do Samurai Have To Do With It?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...

Academia/Anecdotes/Books and Articles/English/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/War/明治/江戸

Seppuku: A Samurai Suicide Miscellany

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

For a little entertainment this Thanksgiving, I read Andrew Rankin’s Seppuku: A History of Samurai Suicide (Kodansha, 2011).1 Since I’m teaching bot...

Academia/Books and Articles/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts/Memory/Pedagogy/幕末/江戸

Turnbull Book on Ako

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Stephen Turnbull, one of the most prolific and controversial writers on Japanese military history, has written a book on the 47 Samurai incident. The Samurai Ar...

Academia/Books and Articles/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/昭和

Feeling Like an Empire: Colonial Radicalization

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

What makes Louise Young’s Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism such a fascinating, troubling work is that she deta...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/US-Japan/安土桃山/江戸

Young Samurai: Way of the Dragon and the Battle of Osaka

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The third installment of Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series shifts modes mid-book, when the action moves from the original Harry Potter-esque bildungsr...

Books and Articles/Japan

New Offerings from Hawai’i

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

I’ve been absent from Frog in a Well for some time for reasons I explain here, so feel a bit rusty at this. But I was inspired by my receipt of the new Un...

1945-1950/Books and Articles/Film/Korea/US-Korea

Cultural Consumption and Comprehension

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There’s an interesting article up at Japan Focus this week, “Disarming Japan’s Cannons with Hollywood’s Cameras: Cinema in Korea Under U.S. Occupati...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Data Visualization and Data Quality

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The inestimable Rob MacDougall is running a course on Digital History, and even better, he’s running it more or less publicly! I’m getting all kinds...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading The Way of the Sword while listening to the “Restoring Honor” event, I began to wonder if our current shift to discourses of honor and warri...

Anecdotes/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts

Young Samurai II: A Bad Start

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I picked up the second installment of the Young Samurai at the library today. I was thinking about starting it, and looked at the back inside dust cover, where ...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Memory/US-Japan/江戸

Judge Ooka’s Sidekick, part two: The Ghost In the Tokaido Inn and In Darkness, Death

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

After reading the last two installments in the Hooblers’ samurai detective series, I got hold of the first two. There are still two I have not read, obvio...

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