Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Category: China
Other Well-dwellers
Some years ago while studying in Beijing I bought a good number of nicely bound hardback volumes from a series entitled the “Library of Chinese Classics&#...
I won't cry for the wasted years
Reading Mote’s Imperial China 900-1800 I came across an interesting quote (p.45) On the (rather irregular) death of Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang i...
Pruning hooks into spears
K.C. Johnson calls our attention to a post by which discusses the state of military history. K.C. is mostly interested in getting military historians the repres...
World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?
My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...
Graduate Conference at Columbia
I participated in the East Asia Graduate Students conference at the weekend, and it was great to meet so many people working in the field, especially those with...
AHC #3 Coming Soon!
The third edition of the Asian History Carnival will be on March 3rd (3/3), but we still don’t have a volunteer for host! So, if you’re an Asian His...
Colonialogy
I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...
AHA Panel Proposal
Hello everyone I am trying to put together a panel for the AHA next year. I am interested in the construction of modern womanhood in early 20th century culture ...
Nomads and China
As the final installment in our exciting series of syllabus posts I present my last class for the semester, Nomadic Empires and China It is a topics class, so i...
Taiwanese Heroin
It has been rainy rather than snowy around here of late, which is very unusual for this time of year. While walking in a cold wet rain I began to try and think ...
Asia on the move
As we have been posting syllabi and asking for comments I thought I would do something radical and post one for a class that I will not be teaching until next F...
Notes from the Chinese Underworld
I appear to have been guilty of smuggling, or at least receiving contraband goods. Probably the Triads or somebody like that was involved as well. Too cool. Whi...
Rice Paddies
Following Jonathan’s lead, here is my syllabus for History of East Asia, more commonly known as Rice Paddies. I suppose the first question to answer is wh...
Menzies and the problem of the "Smoking Gun" document
Menzies’ thesis won’t die. Just when it seemed to be fading out (unless Menzies’ argument about Mongol exploration is really his next focus), ...