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Category: China-Japan

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...

China-Japan/Economics/Food

Protests, national identity, and food

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via LGM I find this piece on anti KFC protests in China. KFC was once known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, but they have changed their name to KFC, in part to make ...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

China-Japan/Japan/martial arts/Military/Propaganda

Heroes and big swords in Shanghai

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The 1932 Shanghai War produced its share of heroes, since any war needs heroes, both for domestic and foreign consumption. I just found two stories of a Chinese...

China/China-Japan/Nationalism/War

Japanese Counter-Insurgency: Strategy or Tactic?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Robert Farley’s article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and implementation begs the question of whether COIN, as it’s called now, ...

China-Japan/Japan/Memory/War/昭和

Japanese Counter-Insurgency: Strategy or Tactic?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Robert Farley’s article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and implementation begs the question of whether COIN, as it’s called now, ...

Anecdotes/Books/China/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs..

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading Emily Whewell’s review of this new book on the Chinese and Japanese treaty port systems and extraterritoriality brought back a long-ago scholarly ...

Academia/Anecdotes/China-Japan/Japan

A memory stirs…

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Reading Emily Whewell’s review of this new book on the Chinese and Japanese treaty port systems and extraterritoriality brought back a long-ago scholarly ...

Books/China/China-Japan/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Japanese views of China

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

December 13 seems as good a day as any to talk about Japanese imperialism. One of the books I taught this semester was Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive.1 It̵...

China/China-Japan/Historiography/Nationalism/Qing

Daiyou Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan’s relationship with t...

China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/War/明治/昭和

Senkaku Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan’s relationship with t...

China/China-Japan/English/Taiwan

From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 23, 2011 by sayaka / 4 Comments

I posted this on Frog in a Well Japan. — Earlier this month, I met a descendent of the Taiwanese aboriginal group, Sysiyat tribe (賽夏族), and his wife. The ...

Anecdotes/China-Japan/Colonial Taiwan/Japanese

From Hirohito to Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on June 23, 2011 by sayaka / 4 Comments

Earlier this month, I met a descendent of the Taiwanese aboriginal group, Sysiyat tribe (賽夏族), and his wife. The Sysiyat is a relatively small tribe living in W...

Anecdotes/China-Japan/War/昭和

Japanese Soldiers Use an Accountant’s Trick

Posted on December 30, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...

Academia/China-Japan/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/US-Japan/War/大正/明治

TR’s legacy for FDR: Japanese Aggression?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I really didn’t want to get into the discussion about James Bradley’s op-ed and interview because it’s finals season, and because the argument...

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