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Category: Cultural

Cultural history.

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Can you speak Chinese?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Cultural/Culture/Guides/Japanese/Public History/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

A brief note on Google Culture

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Google Culture is apparently producing some original content: “A brief history of Kimono” https://shinpaideshou.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/fun-link-fr...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

Books/Cultural/Environment/Food/Historiography

Food History Themes and Exceptions

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Once is a fluke. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a conspiracy. There’s a theme that runs through a great deal of food history writing, nearly all of ...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/Premodern/江戸

Yes, I watched it.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

As Jamie Noguchi said, I see these movies so you don’t have to: my review of 47 Ronin is up at HNN. As expected, it’s a blazing failure, with few de...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/大正/幕末/明治/昭和

Modern Japan in Anglophone Historical Fiction

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

ASPAC 2013 Jonathan Dresner Pittsburg State University “But writers of fiction do not stumble onto locales or times: they choose them and they use them to...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Food/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/Memory/Nationalism

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Japan Times article on Japan’s application to UNESCO to have 和食 [washoku, Japanese cuisine] declared an internationally recognized “intangible c...

Cultural/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/江戸

The Three Stages of Ninja

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

The ninja question came up last week in my Samurai class — we were talking about possible writing projects — so I had to do my ninja spiel, which ha...

Academia/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/平成

Old Myths, New Myths: Problems of Informed Punditry

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

The Asia/Pacific Journal, aka Japan Focus, has a fascinating interview with Heinrich Reinfried, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies at the University St. Gall...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Memory/US-Japan/江戸

Judge Ooka’s Sidekick, part two: The Ghost In the Tokaido Inn and In Darkness, Death

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

After reading the last two installments in the Hooblers’ samurai detective series, I got hold of the first two. There are still two I have not read, obvio...

Colonial/Cultural/Gender/General/Korea/Korean

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 13, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

When I was preparing for my oral exams last semester, the professors who do not work on East Asia (I had a European historian and a Latin American historian in ...

Academia/Cultural/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy/江戸

Lines which make me less likely to adopt a world history textbook

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

So, I got a new one in the mail, and I start scanning through, with the usual particular attention to the Japan material, and right there in the “Cultural...

Cultural/Diaspora/General/International Affairs/Japan/Nationalism/US-Japan

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I just learned of the Japanese Emperor and Empress’ visit to Hawai’i [via]. It’s not the first time that a member of the Japanese Imperial fam...

Academia/Archives/Art/Cultural/General/Historiography/Japan/Maps/Museums/Teaching/Web Sites

Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scannin...

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