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Category: China

1970s/China

The American Geographical Society’s China

Posted on August 25, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

In a recent posting, I took a look at the Taiwan volume in an old series of colorful books called the “Around the World Program” published by the Am...

China/Maps

Historical Maps of Wuhan

Posted on March 29, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

As may be clear from my recent postings on rumours in Wuhan, the language of Wuhan, a timeline and bibliography about Wuhan, and a post on Wuhan on the eve of r...

China/Language

The Language of Wuhan

Posted on March 5, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The Wuhan dialect is often described as a “southwestern mandarin variety” of Chinese. For over a century foreigners, especially missionaries who liv...

1911/China/Revolution

Wuhan on the Eve of a Revolution

Posted on March 1, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I stumbled across the American traveler William Edgar Geil’s Eighteen Capitals of China (1911). I wasn’t impressed. Even for its time, it is particu...

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...

China/Gender

Too Many Men Again

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s an article about China making the rounds: “Too Many Men” ; “In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. Both nations ...

China/Film/Han Dynasty/Qin

The Last Supper (2012): Xiang Yu Overthrows the Qin in order to…protect Diversity?

Posted on February 4, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I’ve been listening to the lectures given by Prof. Ou Fan Leo Lee (李歐梵) for his Coursera course Classics of Chinese Humanities: Guided Readings from the C...

China/Classics/Games/Philosophy

Encountering Classical Chinese Philosophy Through Translation and a Text Adventure Game

Posted on January 28, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Over winter break I usually spend a good deal of time with my nephew, codename Loke, now 11 years-old. Over the past few years, I have hidden a bonus Christmas ...

China/Han Dynasty/Philosophy

Advice from Xu Gan in the Balanced Discourses

Posted on January 13, 2018 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Over the holidays I had a chance to read John Makeham’s translation of Xu Gan’s (170-217 CE) late Han dynasty Balanced Discourses 中論 (Ctext).1 The w...

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...

China/Historiography/Yuan

An update on the Marco Polo problem

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I said when I introduced the History Carnival that I’d been doing a lot of private blogging in the form of online course materials, and I really should sh...

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...

China/Economics

Salt, China, and Wikipedia

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Slate has a post up on the abolition of the Chinese salt monopoly, and they are amazed  that something that has existed for 2,600 years is now being abolished. ...

Books/China/Historiography/Poetry/Translation

Early Medieval China

Posted on August 23, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

Books/China/English/Song/visual culture

Understanding China Through Comics

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

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