Archives, China and America: A Review of Wang Chengzhi and Su Chen
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...
Category: Books
Understanding China-The interview
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...
Yuan Mei, Food Network star
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...
Food History Themes and Exceptions
Once is a fluke. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a conspiracy. There’s a theme that runs through a great deal of food history writing, nearly all of ...
Zhuangzi’s brain
I have been reading Wilt Idema The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun. The book is a translation of various versions of the story of Zhuangzi and th...
Understanding China
Understanding China through Comics Volume 4 is out! As I have reviewed the other volumes, I was sent a free copy of this one. This volume deals with the Ming a...
Teaching Late Imperial Chinese cultural history
Update So I think I have figured this one out, with a little help from my friends, both here and via e-mail. I will be using Tim Brook’s Troubled Empire t...
Chinese Canon wars
From Xiaoqun Xu1 we get a wonderful description of a battle over the Chinese canon between Liang Qichao and Hu Shi. This took place in the pages of page...
Early Medieval China
Just for fun I have been reading Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook.1 It is a very good book, written by a collection of the superheros of the field. The advert...
Understanding China Through Comics
The third volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out, and it is good. In my previous reviews I talked about how well the books explained Chinese histor...
So that's why..
I’ve been reading Peter Harmsen’s Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. I like it a lot. Part of the reason I like it is that he is a journalist...
Unearthing the Nation
Grace Yen Shen’s Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China is a really good book. Shen says that at first “it took a lot o...
China's Museums
I have been reading China’s Museums, part of the Cambridge University Press series Introductions to Chinese Culture. I am finding the table of contents pa...
Teaching Asian Civilizations
As I was cleaning out my office I found a copy of Approaches to Asian Civilizations by Wm. Theodore de Bary and Anslie T. Embree.1 First published in 1964, the ...