Darwin the Confucian
As today is Darwin Day I thought I would post something on China’s reception of Darwin’s work. He tended to be confused with Spencer at first, and E...
Category: China
Upcoming Asian History Carnival
I’ll be posting the 19th Asian History Carnival at Frog in a Well – Korea on the evening of February 14th, Seoul time. Learn more about the Asian Hi...
Comparative Colonialism-Taiwan
Japan Focus has a nice article by Anne Booth on Japanese colonialism in Taiwan (and Korea) The standard view is that the post-war development of both places ha...
Obama for Minister of the Left
Some historians have gone so far as to endorse Barak Obama for the office of President of the United States. Lots of people who seem to have very little affinit...
Taiwanese modernity
One of my colleagues asked me a question about Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times. For those of you who have not seen it, it is a set of three love stories all...
Teaching Confucius
Tomorrow I get to teach Confucius to my Rice Paddies class. This used to be a fairly easy thing to do, until the unspeakably annoying E. Bruce and A. Taeko Broo...
How to get rich in Chinese business
This is from the Hawai’i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture1 It is a wonderful reading to use in classes, as our hero Dou Yi manages to make dough in p...
Journals: European Journal Of East Asian Studies Vol 6 No 2
Below is the table of contents of the new issue of this journal: European Journal Of East Asian Studies 2007 ; VOL 6 ; PART 2 (2007/12/01) EALA Wiki Entry fo...
Fortune Cookie History
A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the origin of the Fortune Cookie! As the NY Times reports, the origi...
It's not history, but it's not bad
Here at Frog in a Well we have always prided ourselves on being the best salientian group blog on Chinese history. While we are still the undisputed masters of ...
Germans and China
I have been reading Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of Total War in Imperial Germany Cornell, 20051 I was mainly in...
Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette
The lively and informed blog, Jottings from the Granite Studio, January 8 has a well turned piece “This date in history: The Death of Zhou Enlai.” The piece sho...
Journals: East Asia – An International Quarterly Vol 24 No 4
Below is the table of contents of the new issue of this journal: East Asia – An International Quarterly 2008; Vol 24; PART 4 (2008-January) EALA Wiki Entr...
Miss Taiwan?
A hunting parting in Xinzhu, 1935 A great new resource provided by Paul Barclay of Lafayette College. They have digitized a great collection of photos of...
Eighth Route Army POW Policy
Frog in a Well welcomes a guest posting from Sayaka Chatani, who is a PhD student in the History Department of Columbia University. Her research interests are i...