Moral Panic
Tim Burke has been blogging on moral panics in the context of oral sex, rape, and children’s television. Reading his stuff I was struck by the most famous...
Category: China
Chasing Emperors
My wife found this pin in her collection, and has no recollection of how we got it. I did a little digging and found that the “Civil Air Patrol” was...
Oracle Bones
In Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present* I found the story of Xu Chaolong.(p.194) I found it interesting because of what it ...
Menzies Continued
It has been suggested to me that it may be a good time to begin a new discussion of the original Menzies topic, which was first posted in January and has now ga...
China at war
Via Gusts of Popular Feeling I found this site by John Dower where he uses Japanese woodblocks to teach a number of things about the Japanese history of the war...
What is a professor?
The importation of new professions into China has always been something that has interested me a great deal. Perhaps the most interesting of these is academics,...
齊芳罷官 (Qi Fang removed from office)
Qi Fang, China’s contestant for the Miss Universe pagent, has resigned. (abdicated?) The China Daily story linked to above gives most of the sordid detail...
Earliest Chinese Writing?
People’s Daily Online is reporting that 7000 year old characters have been found which seem to be direct precedents to known Chinese characters. [via] The...
Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories
Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...
Where are the Chinese women?
From IHT via some blog I forgot, here is a little review of a book on “Chick Lit” Chick Lit is a marketing category full of books about young women ...
The Chinese are everywhere
From Granta via Reason here is a little thing by Lindsey Hilsum on Chinese businesses in Africa. It’s really just a little journalistic squib mostly about...
Recent Downtime
I want to apologize for the recent few days of instable contact with Frog in a Well and some downtime. I’ll expand this post with more of an explanation l...
Women on the Long March
Natalie Bennett reports that a new oral history investigation of the Long March experience is being published. Over 10 months, travelling mainly by bus and trai...
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Asian History Carnival #3
Welcome to the third Asian History Carnival! It’s traditional for blog carnivals to have some kind of internal organization…. Heh.
Hightower Obituary
If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...