Guards! Guards!
Security guard at Shanghai Public library (a very nice lady) One thing I’ve been noticing a lot (I’m in Shanghai) is that China may be the best-guarded s...
Category: China
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Paul Chiasson’s contribution to Menzies’ thesis has been getting press again. Though it’s been pretty thoroughly rejected by knowledgable acad...
A rose by any other name
As many of our readers already know, the Taiwanese government has re-named the Chiang Kai-shek memorial in Taibei, now known as the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Ha...
US Consular Report on Events in Taiwan after 2.28
Though I haven’t read much on the events surrounding the 2.28 violence in Taiwan in 1947, it generated a lot of paperwork for the state department which I...
Leni Riefenstahl meets Busby Berkeley
Eugenia Lean’s new book is very interesting. It is a study of Shi Jianqiao’s 1935 assassination of Sun Chuanfang, the former warlord who had killed ...
United States Wartime Propaganda in China
While looking through 1945-50 US State Department documents—the same collection where I came accross Zhu De’s request for a $20 million US loan to buy off...
Married couples
2 married couples, from China Digital Times As both Mother’s Day and her birthday are coming up, I thought I would post something romantic for my wife. GT...
Zhu De's Request for a $20 Million Favor
In the Sino-Japanese conflict that stretched from the 1930s until 1945 Chinese “puppet” military forces were to be found wherever Japanese occupatio...
How air-minded was China?
Airplanes and airpower were an important part of Chiang Kai-shek’s vision of a new China. In part I think this may have been connected to his disappoi...
It's not Imperialism
Via Yahoo a roundup of recent stuff on China’s involvement in Africa. China of course has growing economic interests in Africa and very little interest in...
AHC #13
The Thirteenth Asian History Carnival is now up over at my personal weblog Muninn! In addition to the usual selection of blog postings I have added a section to...
Maps and Empire
Maps have been an important part of empire in China for a long time. In the Warring States period spies were always trying to steal maps, and defeated states pr...
More technological coolness
This is probably not news to many of our readers, but you can now download the entire 1941 animated film Princess Iron Fan from Internet Archive. It is p...
Asian History Carnival Call for Submissions
I will be hosting the thirteenth installment of the Asian History Carnival at Muninn on the evening of April 21st. Please make your submissions by noon the 21st...
More geographical coolness
Konrad’s post on the GIS dataset below is well worth looking at, as this is a very cool dataset.