Managing History in China
Historic Preservation is the process of preserving historic stuff, mostly building and sites. China has lots of history. 5,000 years of it, in fact. Historical...
Category: China
Make it Just So, Mr. Fukuyama
I have been reading Francis Fukuyama’s new book The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution. It is, as the title suggests...
Japan and Catfish
On the assumption that some of our readers teach East Asian History and thus may on occasion have to talk about Japan, history, and earthquakes, I offer two lin...
Zhang San and Li Si's Excellent Adventure
China Hush reports that the Chinese film and TV industries have been ordered to stop making time-travel dramas, on the grounds that “The producers and wri...
Chalmers Johnson remembered
His wife on his life and career.
Assassination and uprisings
On April 8th, 1911 five days before the scheduled Canton revolt an independent radical from Singapore assassinated the Manchu governor of Canton, Fu Qi. This t...
Widespread Panic in 1911
On March 31, 1911, the Japanese consul in Fuzhou filed a report on Chinese concerns about foreign invasion. That foreigners were going to divvy China up into co...
A fun toy
The Economist has a fun toy where you can compare Chinese provinces to various foreign countries. Some of the comparisons don’t help much, given that som...
Sun Yat-sen: If only a Revolution -were- like a dinner party
Livebloging 1911 Someone once said “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined...
Revolt in Canton
Live-blogging 1911 Live-blogging is (for historians) the process of blogging about something in the past as if it was happening in the present. Since this is th...
This is your historical analogy on drugs
Apparently Google is just like the British East India Company. Or so at least the toadies of the CCP would have you believe. According to People’s Daily,...
Sinai -etic analogies
Jeremiah Jenne has a post up at Fallows1 where he looks at the possibility of a Jasmine Revolution in China. He concludes that it is not that likely, as the CCP...
Year of the Hare… um "Rabbit"?
February third is the Lunar New Year, celebrated in East Asia as the New Year or Spring Festival. The Reuters article “Chinese Ready for Upheaval, Sex in ...
Monumental Histories
Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...
Boxers and history
Via Jeremiah Jenne, a link to an Economist article on the legacy of the Boxers. It is without a doubt the best article on Chinese history I have ever seen in a ...