"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism
Over at the invaluable Danwei, Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...
Category: China
JOURNAL WATCH: H-DIPLO JOURNAL AND PERIODICAL REVIEW
A major problem nowadays is to somehow find that newly published article in a journal you don’t subscribe to – I miss enough articles in the journals I do subsc...
Sweaty Traitors – Character Simplifications That Just Weren't Meant to Be
I had an old instructor of Chinese language many years ago who took every opportunity to pick fun at the evil Reds on the mainland. I think he fled China in 194...
The Most Effective Kind of Education
While there are many historical problems worthy of exploring in the study of history, I personably believe that one of the most important is an attempt to under...
Private views of Chinese history
Recently I went to the Jianchuan museums, which are in Anren, just outside Chengdu. It is an interesting place first because it is huge, financed by mogul Fan J...
Cities and Nationalisms Conference
This conference will take place in London on 17-18 June 2010. “Cities have been intimately connected with nationalisms of many kinds. The architecture and spati...
Evidence and Torture
As can be seen in this New York Times article and BBC report from May 31 reports some interesting news on the legal front when it comes to torture: The top judi...
The Will of a Traitor
There is a lot of treason to be found in the vicinity of LOC number DS777.5195.W34 in the Harvard-Yenching library. It’s Wang Jingwei (汪精衛) territory, inf...
May Fourth
Did you know that May 4th is Star Wars Day? Yet another example of how history piles up.
Guides at Frog in a Well
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
Donald McGill looks at China
As readers of Orwell know, the British of the interwar period were fond of buying comic and risque postcards while on seaside vacations, and Donald McGill was t...
Knitting with steel
NYT reports (via CDT) that China is offering to help California build a high-speed rail network. The Times’ take is that the worm has certainly turned if ...
Famous bloggers
I have been remiss in pointing out that you should all go see how famous our 弟妹 blog on Japan is getting to be Or at least how one of its bloggers is moving int...
Spring is here
A beautiful Spring day. What could be better on a day like this than grading papers? Cubs lost the opener 16-5. Spring really is here