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Category: China-U.S.

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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...

Anecdotes/China-U.S.

Modern media culture was born in China. In 1931.

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Did you know that Charles Lindbergh, the biggest media star of the 1930’s, went to China? Well, I didn’t. He was there in 1931, after he had become ...

Anecdotes/China/China-U.S./Current Events/Economics/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...

China/China-U.S./English/Intellectual/Republican

"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism

Posted on July 17, 2010 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Over at the invaluable Danwei,  Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./English/Events/Web Sites and Resources

AAS Blogging: outsourced

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I didn’t get to any China-specific panels at the AAS, but the good folks at China Beat have a few panel summaries worth taking a look at. You can find som...

Books/China/China-U.S./Civil War/English/Republican

A sinologist in Iraq

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Graham Peck’s Two Kinds of Time has been re-issued. This is good news for everyone, and especially for those of us who got a copy for Christmas. (Thanks S...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Newspapers/Qing

Liveblogging the Boxers

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Military historian David Silbey is going to be blogging through the Boxer Uprising as seen through the New York Times. Though this is a little more of a distant...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./Culture/English/Foreign Views

Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face

Posted on December 12, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...

China/China-U.S./Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Taiwan

Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”

Posted on August 28, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

Do Chinese lie? The Western media have jumped on recent revelations about doctoring the Olympic opening ceremonies and allegations about false ages of their gym...

China/China-U.S./English/Web Sites and Resources

Review of the Museum of Chinese in the Americas

Posted on April 15, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I just found the wonderful open access journal Museum Anthropology Review. There are a few reviews available there that will be of interest to Frog readers. See...

China/China-U.S./English/Historiography/Teaching

Five Things That Didn’t Happen (But Might Have)

Posted on March 7, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 18 Comments

Kate Merkel-Hess at China Beat had an intriguing list last month, Five Chinese Historical Events That Don’t Get Much Attention, (2/ 11/08) which was in turn ins...

China/China-Japan/China-U.S./Diaspora/Japan

Fortune Cookie History

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the origin of the Fortune Cookie! As the NY Times reports, the origi...

China/China-U.S./Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette

Posted on January 8, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 6 Comments

The lively and informed blog, Jottings from the Granite Studio, January 8 has a well turned piece “This date in history: The Death of Zhou Enlai.” The piece sho...

China/China-U.S./Current Events

Don't Toy With China

Posted on November 6, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

I wrote an op-ed piece “Don’t Toy With China” for ASIA MEDIA, a web journal run by the UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE.  The piece looks at how the real i...

China/China-Korea/China-U.S./Diaspora/English/General/Identity/Japan/Post-Mao/Qing

(A Little) Chinese History at ASPAC

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

There was, I’ll admit, a lot of Chinese content at ASPAC which I didn’t see. Such is life. I did see two papers which I want to discuss here briefly...

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