樂學書局: The Lexis Book Co.
Thanks to a tip shared by a fellow graduate student I met here yesterday, I learnt about another excellent academic bookstore here in Taipei which is, I’m...
Category: China
Pictures of China
Opium burning, 1917-1919. Beijing Duke university has put the entire Sidney Gamble archive on-line. Some of these have been published already (Gamble is pretty ...
Between Nanjing and Chongqing
I posted a piece on Asia Media (July 10 2008) which reviews Steve MacKinnon’s new book, Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Univer...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Taiwan 1946: Asking, "What is Democracy?" – in Japanese
Over on Frog in a Well – Japan I wrote a posting about a 1946 Taiwanese pamphlet written in Japanese put out by 臺灣新生報 that may be of interest to readers o...
Are the Chinese fascists?
Jed Perl has a piece up attacking Chinese art at TNR. As any number of people have pointed out Contemporary Chinese ArtTM is booming. For Perl, however, it̵...
Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map
After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...
Taiwan Bookstores EALA Page Updated
I have updated the Taiwan Bookstores page on the EALA wiki, adding two books and updating the link for SMC Publishing. If you are in Taipei and are looking for ...
Changeless China (post 3,743 in a series)
Strange Maps (quite possibly the coolest blog in the universe) has this map of more-or-less Han China. The map comes from here, and is part of a summary of a &#...
You lost to a girl?
Reading through 中华民国文化史 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1 I found something interesting in the section on 国术. 国术 is a term for what today would be cal...
Summer is here
Today is the first day of summer here in Pennsylvania, which must mean it is time for a reading from 呂氏春秋 Lüshi Chunqiu LSCQ is best described as a philosophica...
China under construction
Apparently China produces a lot of cement From the Oil Drum, via Andrew Sullivan, Another in our series of cool teaching graphics.
Celebrity endorsements
For those of you who missed it, Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama. I’m not sure how much this matters. Very few Gore supporters were going to vote for McCain....
Chinese history sucks
As a profession anyway. Historians are notorious for thinking that the past matters a lot, and most of us even think the past matters even if it has nothing to ...
It's the shoes
For people who have read Sherman Cochran it is not news that Chinese merchants developed brand names and consumers developed brand loyalty. Cochran mostly focus...