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Books/Diaspora/Historiography/India/International Affairs/Revolution

Can a historian malign a ruling race?

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A book I have been reading for fun this summer is Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. It is a history of the various ...

Books/Cultural/Popular Culture/Science and Technology

Can you speak Chinese?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Books/Han Dynasty/Philosophy/Teaching

Huainanzi and teaching Early China

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I really liked using Huainanzi in my upper-division Early China class this semester.  I have a habit of switching books a lot in all my classes, in part because...

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/Gender/Historiography

Women Warriors in Japanese History? Yes, but…

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The subtitle to this article tells you most of what you need to know: Christobel Hasting, “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan’s Women Samurai, Were Era...

Books/Japan/Popular Culture/Teaching/visual culture

Pan-Asian Hell

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

People like Hell. Most religions seem to have one, and depicting it is a classic way of instructing the masses about the wages of sin. Reproducing these images ...

Books/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Teaching Revolutionary China : China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A book that seems to have worked well for me in my teaching is Zhu Qihua China : China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle The class was History of Modern China,, syllabu...

1960s/Books/China/Food/Yuan

Fake News? Chinese Cannibalism Cookbooks?

Posted on February 26, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Sy Montgomery’s review of CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History By Bill Schutt includes the following paragraph: Next time you eat Chinese, for example...

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...

Articles/Authors/Books/China/China-U.S./Christianity/East vs West/Foreign Views/Frog in A Well/Historiography

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...

Books/Classics/Literature/Pedagogy/Teaching/Translation

Books with “Laozi” on the cover

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Konrad called my attention to Paul R. Goldin’s “Those Who Don’t Know Speak: Translations of the Daode Jing by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.”1 As you mig...

Archives/Books

Archives, China and America: A Review of Wang Chengzhi and Su Chen

Posted on March 26, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

  Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Wang, Chengzhi, and Su Chen. Archival Resources of Republican China in North America. Columbia University Press, 2...

Books/Historiography/visual culture

Understanding China-The interview

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Stone Bridge Press is bringing out a deluxe edition of Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics, which I have been reviewing here and enjoying very m...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

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