Recycling images
This picture should of course be familiar to a many of our readers. It’s from 点石斋画报, probably the most famous of the late-19th century illustrated magazines. Th...
Category: China
Labor and the public sphere
Via H-Asia I found China Law Digest, which seems to have a lot of interesting stuff. One of these is a story about migrant laborers in Fujian organizing themsel...
Chinese Invasion
As summer is here soon we may be getting reports of the dreaded Chinese Snakehead fish. Invasive species are of course nothing new, but Zebra Mussels and Eurasi...
Does China exist?
The question of China’s existence or non-existence in the eyes of foreigners is an old one. At least for the early European explorers China really did exist, an...
井底之蛙 Site Launch
Welcome to 井底之蛙, the newest addition to Frog in a Well. This new academic group blog is primarily focused on the study of the history of China, broadly defined,...
Self-Intro: K. M. Lawson
My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson. I have recently finished my first year of a PhD in history and I am currently spending the summer in Seoul to work on my Kore...
The China History Group Blog
This is the new China history group blog at FrogInAWell.net. I’m in the process of putting together a great group of students/scholars of China’s history ...