China Historical GIS Data Sets Project Available
There was an announcement on H-Asia which might be of interest to historians and researchers that appreciate the power of GIS geographic information data. This ...
Category: China
Where's my check?
A lot of discussion of who China scholars in the U.S. -really- work for. (Hint, it’s not Cleo) One thread of the discussion, from Far Eastern Economic Rev...
How Taiwan Became Chinese
Salon.com is having an interesting little discussion of Tonio Andrade’s new book How Taiwan Became Chinese. I have not yet read the book, but I am familia...
A stupid idea that will never work
Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...
Solar eclipse
Via View from Taiwan we learn that the statue of Sun Yat-sen in the Presidential Palace in Taipei has been replaced with a potted plant.
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Asian History Carnival #12
Asian History Carnival #12 A Carnival is an event which exists outside of the ordinary flow of time (which explains why this particular one is two weeks late) a...
Who lives in a Pineapple under the Sea of Japan…?
From Inside Asia I learn that China has created regulations to increase the number of domestic cartoons shown in China. This is a fairly standard bit of cultura...
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal Online
I am happy to announce the completion of a project that I have been working on in my spare time for about a month now: the digitization of the Sino-Japanese Stu...
A Few Small Changes
While doing a regular WordPress software upgrade at Frog in a Well, I have made a few small technical changes to the three blogs: 1) In the list of Frog in a We...
Gavin Menzies, Historian
A few weeks ago I received a flyer from a publisher who shall remain nameless. They are soliciting people to write pro and con essays on various historical cont...
When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant
After Mao Zedong died in 1976, they put his body on display in one of those see-through coffins which Lenin made popular. Shortly after, the NBC evening news co...
Globalized Chinese Culture
Chinese culture is global culture. Though Hawai’i is, in some ways, not a good sample, nonetheless there’s an awful lot of Chinese culture which has...
Family and Community in Asia (or, do my job for me)
As our regular readers know, there is a tradition here of posting our syllabai for comments. One class I will be teaching in the Fall is ASIA 200, Introduction ...
Has anyone seen the scissors?
Tang-dynasty scissors, via wikipedia Perhaps they are not as interesting as pigs, but I had a question about scissors. I was reading the 海王 chapter of Gu...