AAS Blogging: outsourced
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...
Category: China
Revolution in pictures
Here, from Stapleton’s Civilizing Chengdu is Yang Wei, Chinese Revolutionary, in prison, November 25, 1911. Below is a picture of Yang as superintendent o...
In hot water
Some of you may know that Old China Hand James Fallows has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about frogs. Specifically he has been waging war against the common trop...
Source: Chinese Canadian Newspapers
Historical sources of various kinds are making it online all the time. I recently came across a digital collection of Chinese newspapers from Canada available a...
Education in pictures
As we are at mid-semester I thought it would be a nice time to think about Education, with a little help from Feng Zikai, Republican China’s best-known ca...
Why can't an economist be more like a(n) historian?
Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue are all economists and they are doing interesting work on rural-urban migration in China. Given that China has better reg...
Dogs again
As a follow-up to Konrad’s post below I came across something on dogs in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, where he is lamenting the passing of the old city, ...
Guest Blogger- Ou-yang Hsiu
Lots of bits of Chinese prose would make great blog entries. (A blog is basically a biji, more or less) Plus, they make great things to teach from. So, if any o...
Wartime Dog Killing Squads
The Chinese Communist campaign against animals that is most talked about is the Four Pests campaign of the late 1950s launched against various pests and sparrow...
Tonghak and Taiping
I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...
China Rises? China Wakes?
“Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.” Napoleon? Although there’s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote ...
China gets modern
A nice photo essay from Financial Times on railways in Inner Mongolia. Lots of nice pics, but the thing that amazed me was that the author was traveling with a...
Chinese incomes
Another in our long series of teaching aids from Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin via Brad DeLong
China and the Middle Ground
This week, our East Asia History Reading Group had the fortune of discussing Richard White’s The Middle Ground with Professor White himself. The purpose o...
Confucius through the ages
Although the revival of Confucius in China naturally tends to emphasize a timeless vision of an unchanging Sage and set of teachings, the 儒家 have actually chang...