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Mass weddings in China-New Life Movement

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

This is a picture from a New Life Movement Mass Wedding in Nanjing. Couples could be married for a fee of only $20 after filling out a few forms and being check...

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...

1970s/Culture/Current Events

Who will Xi Jinping be?

Posted on August 24, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you have been following the Olympics (which I mostly have not) you probably watched the closing ceremonies, and saw Japan’s Prime Minister Abe zip thro...

Aviation/Culture/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...

Culture/martial arts/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Pedagogy/大正/明治/昭和

Reading Note: Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan”

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Before I praise Benesch’s book, a complaint: Oxford UP pricing is absurd. Now that’s not unusual for academic hardbacks, monographs that go to libra...

Culture/Food/Pigs

History of Pigs

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As we seem to be the internet center for Chinese history and pigs I thought I would call to your attention Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and ...

China/Classics/Culture/East vs West/English

Ungraded Love or Double Standards? Stanley Fish, Stephen Asma, and Confucius

Posted on January 13, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

Stanley Fish, no stranger to controversy, has a piece on the New York Times online blog, Opinionator, Favoritism Is Good (January 9, 2013). Fish is known for su...

Books/China/Countryside/Culture/English/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Rustic poetry

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The contrast between the center and the periphery is a common theme in Chinese literature. To be an official sent from the capital to the provinces, or a sent-d...

China/Culture/English/Food

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions: It's a Post-Authentic World

Posted on March 24, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

A note to those who are imprudent enough not to follow the Japanese side of Frog in a Well:  Jonathan Dresner has a smart, witty, and informative piece, Credent...

Asian American/China/Class/Culture/English/Social History

From all the junks, the one I need more is music

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Slate has a piece up on the Asian-ization of Western classical music. It’s more historically informed than you might think for a Slate piece, although it ...

China/Culture/English

Dragons, Dragons Everywhere! But They Don't Shake the World

Posted on January 21, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

This week you run across dragons just about everywhere. President Obama welcomed the Year of the Dragon from the White House (here), while Paul French did likew...

China/Culture/East vs West/English

Dragons in the News: Is a Long a Dragon?

Posted on January 18, 2012 by C. W. Hayford / 7 Comments

The Year of the Dragon is upon us – should we be afraid? Around the English speaking world, magazine covers and editorial writers rely on the dragon as a colorf...

China/Culture/Current Events/English/Public History

Zhang San and Li Si's Excellent Adventure

Posted on April 15, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

China Hush reports that the Chinese film and TV industries have been ordered to stop making time-travel dramas, on the grounds that “The producers and wri...

China/Culture/English

Year of the Hare… um "Rabbit"?

Posted on January 28, 2011 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

February third is the Lunar New Year, celebrated in East Asia as the New Year or Spring Festival. The Reuters article “Chinese Ready for Upheaval, Sex in ...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./Culture/English/Foreign Views

Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face

Posted on December 12, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...

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