China – Page 40 – Frog in a Well

Why is China so clean?

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A long time ago I realized the street litter in poor countries is different than that in rich ones. In part this is because the poor countries seem to hire more...

Archaeology/China/General/Nationalism

Shine on you crazy diamond

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Have you been to the British Museum? One of the best museums in the world, largely because it contains the loot of empire, stuff the Brits brought back from all...

China/General

Sharing syllabi

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As is becoming a timeless tradition here at Frog in a Well, I am posting my syllabi for comment and suggestions. Not much China stuff this semester. I am stuck ...

Archaeology/China/China-Japan/English/General

Miscellany

Posted on August 27, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via HNN It’s a 270-year old antique building! It’s a brothel! Monument or Disgrace? Neolithic astronomy: Big Dipper in ancient stone. Paper Producti...

China/General/Imperialism/Sino-Japanese Wars

Virtual nationalism

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via ESNW I found this interesting post about anti-japanese attitudes in Chinese virtual worlds. http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/08/national_politics_within_vir...

China/Chinese/General/Language/Post-Mao

他媽的

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

I caught a couple of episodes of Firefly on TV a bit back. The thing that hooked me was that some of the characters were swearing in Chinese, of a sort. The ser...

Books/China/English/General/Web Sites and Resources

Used books online in China

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 5 Comments

The book markets and used bookstores of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and pretty much everywhere in between; their dusty piles of colourful, frayed cultural revol...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Identity/Nationalism/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Chinese in Motion

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 13 Comments

Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...

China/English/Events

Asian History Carnival #6

Posted on August 2, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...

China/Economics/English/General/Post-Mao/Republican

A Guokui for the contemporary masses

Posted on August 1, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 0 Comment

I was checking through CDT the other day (as I do when I’m in the mood to circumvent certain walls that surround my current location) and came across the ...

China/General/Literature

The good life

Posted on July 29, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I came across this story while reading the Liaozhai 聊斋 The Loyal Mouse According to Yang Tianyi, once he saw two mice coming out of a hole. One was swallowed by...

China/English/Ethnic Minorities/General/Qing/Republican/Tibet

Self-introduction: Scott Relyea 李皓同

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 2 Comments

Hi everyone at 井底之蛙, First of all, I’d like to thank Konrad for the invitation to join the Frog in a Well community. I’m happy to become part of wha...

China/China-Japan/General/Imperialism

Yellow Peril

Posted on July 23, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been re-reading some Jack London stories of late, and being struck by the Chinese in them. There are actually a lot of Chinese, as the areas he tended to w...

China/Civil War/General/Poetry/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Voice of the people

Posted on July 20, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One nice thing about Chinese history is that there is a long history of recording popular songs. From the Han at least it was assumed that popular songs reflect...