China and the atom bomb
How is “common knowledge” different in China than elsewhere? At present of course things are increasingly the same, but that is due in part to years...
Category: China
Working to Protect Your Human Rights
In Communist controlled “liberated districts” of Japanese occupied China, your local treason elimination squad was directed to safeguard your human ...
A sinologist in Iraq
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...
Pinyin or bust
A recent obituary of John DeFrancis emphasized his personal desire to see the Chinese overhaul its writing system, claiming that the failure of the Communist go...
Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?
John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, p...
Like mixing water with water
Students often come to classes on China looking for the Timeless Wisdom of the Easttm As a historian I tend to dislike giving it to them, since the point of his...
Weird pictures
BibliOdyssey has a post up on European images of 17th century Japan. Yes, I know. Who cares about Japan? There is also a link to an older post on Athanasius Kir...
Making China democratic
Over at A Ku Indeed people have been discussing Bell’s East and West, which is an attempt to create a dialogue between Western and Eastern concepts of rig...
Liveblogging the Boxers
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...
A Dictionary that Could Change your Life
I see a lot of passing on of digital tools, and a fellow Fulbrighter sent along this link, a Chinese dictionary where you can write in the characters and it loo...
The Relaunching of Sino-Japanese Studies
I wanted to post a plug for a project that I have been involved with recently: Announcing the relaunch of Sino-Japanese Studies online For fifteen years Sino-Ja...
Starting a new year
As is something of a tradition here, these are my syllabai for the upcoming semester. East Asia Early China Honors College Unit C on bronzes and classical China...
R.I.P. John DeFrancis
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Meet the meat
Foreigners have two contradictory images of “Chinese men”. One is the effeminate scholar with long fingernails and the other is the kung fu dude. Th...
A crack in the firewall?
The Chinese firewall seems to be acting up. On Saturday, authors of the New York Times, Washington Post, CBS and other newspapers I’m sure noted that the ...