Asian History Carnival #16
The Sixteenth Asian History Carnival is now up! Check it out over at the Japan history weblog.
Category: China
Poverty and Prison Camps
I recently finished reading Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949 by Frank Dikötter. You can find pictures from the book posted on his we...
Summer must be here
People seem to be too busy doing nothing to post much, but what good is technology if you don’t use it? By a mountain path. Few guests. A huqin‘s so...
Protests and the public sphere
Every society has its own traditions of protest, things that people can do that will get them attention and hopefully enable them to get redress for thei...
(A Little) Chinese History at ASPAC
There was, I’ll admit, a lot of Chinese content at ASPAC which I didn’t see. Such is life. I did see two papers which I want to discuss here briefly...
The Chinese brand
Daniel Drezner has a post up about the troubles that the Chinese brand name is facing at present. (Dan is thinking about China this week) From tires that kill y...
Drop and give me twenty
While here in Shanghai I have been doing a bit of research. My new project is on 训练 and military training during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in par...
ILoveShopping
I’m not sure why some people think that posting pictures of the books you just got is blog-worthy, but as I am in Shanghai I have also been testing my wei...
Taiwan gained and lost
Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...
"President" Chiang Kai-shek
So, what is the current status of Chiang Kai-shek in China? He is the most troublesome of the Republican era-figures for the mainland to figure out. Anyone who ...
China's Traditional, right?
Cultural Revolution? Yan’an Purge? It’s an ugly campaign season, a mix of talent show, debate, old-fashioned politicking and dirty tricks. It’...
Accumulated History: A miscellany
As always, stuff for which I don’t give a tip of the hat mostly came from HNN Pushing back, archaeology style: 8000 year old writing probably early form o...
China reconstructs
One thing about China is that they are always re-building historical sites. Here are some guys building a new…something…. at the old Ming palace in ...
The Chairman is pleased
How is the cult of Mao doing? Well, this is a statue of the Great Helmsman at Yuhuashan in Nanjing. It is part of a rather temporary-looking exhibit on his life...