More on public history
I posted a while back on how the Chinese are more aggressive in re-building historical sites than one would expect in the West. Angela Zito explains some possib...
Category: China
Our Japanese Comrades
I’ve been paging through 抗战漫画 a book re-printing lots of wartime cartoons. Although some work has been done on these, one thing I have not seen commented ...
Ding Mocun, Lung Ying-tai and Lust, Caution
Ang Lee‘s (李安) new movie Lust, Caution (色，戒) is apparently being released later this week in the United States. The movie won a Golden Lion at the Venice ...
20th Century Chinese Women's History for Undergraduates…..
A blatant request for help1: I’m teaching my 20th century China course in the Spring, and book order season is upon us already! Last time I taught it, I u...
Oy
Yes, its sort of dumpster-diving, but there is a really dumb post on Chinese history up from John Derbyshire. In the process of explaining why he is not quite I...
Why Study?
Jeremiah from Granite Studio has post about the debate in American universities about the relationship between education and training. Anthony Kronman claims t...
Teaching Qing History
In comments for the previous post Jonathan Dresner asked if Zelin’s new Merchants of Zigong would be a good book for an undergraduate class on the Qing. I...
We have never valued ingenious articles
The generally excellent blog Jottings from the Granite Studio has an interesting post up on practical learning. The post is about the tendency of American unive...
Exporting Maoism
In my Intro to Asian Studies class this semester I am teaching Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s The Girl From the Coast The story is a fictionalized account of his...
National sudies fever
China’s intellectual world needs to bundle up better, and wear its galoshes, since it tends to catch a lot of “fevers.” The current one is for...
Take grain as the key link
Securing grain supplies and providing food security for the peasants was always one of the main duties of the Chinese state, partly because of their deep concer...
Manchukuo Stamps
We welcome a guest posting by Alexander Akin, an occasional comment contributor here at Frog in a Well and currently a PhD Candidate in Harvard’s departme...
The Buddha goes to war
Xue Yu’s new book Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle against Japanese Aggressions, 1931-19451 is the first major work I have fo...
Was China stagnant for 700 years?
Brad DeLong has a long post up on the economic history of China. It’s not all that good, but as he is asking for comments people might want to go and give...