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Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

Anecdotes/Contemporary/Current Events/Current/Recent Events

Internet Culture and Rough Music

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Not really a post, but more of an idea. I ran across this, about victims of the alleged Las Vegas  shooting who are being harassed on-line. I say alleged, becau...

Current Events/Food/General/Humor

Trump Promotes Chinese Food: Egg roll on White House Lawn

Posted on April 23, 2017 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

      In an unusual move, last Monday the White House lawn was given over to egg rolls. The Italian Ambassador contributed to the moment by bringing “ciao mein....

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

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...

China/Countryside/Current Events/English/Public History/Qing

History and tourism in China

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

China File has been following the attempts of the town of Bishan  to make itself into a tourist destination. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in China, and...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Imperialism

Opium warlord dies

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you study the history of drugs in Asia1 the period right after 1945 marks an important divide. Down to maybe 1840 (or in some contexts much later) drugs (mos...

China/Current Events

Wukan as history

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Ho-fung Hong has an interesting post up on the Wukan protests and the history of popular protest in Imperial China.1 While in the Western media protests like Wu...

China/Current Events/English/Qing/War

The good old days of empire

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

My local paper ran an editorial (version here) by Rich Lowry which gave readers more Qing dynasty history than they normally get.  As an American conservative h...

Archaeology/China/Current Events/Public History

Managing History in China

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Historic Preservation is the process of  preserving historic stuff, mostly building and sites. China has lots of history. 5,000 years of it, in fact. Historical...

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/Current Events/Economics/Geography

A fun toy

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The Economist has a fun toy where you can compare Chinese provinces to various foreign countries.  Some of the comparisons don’t help much, given that som...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/English

This is your historical analogy on drugs

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently Google is just like the British East India Company. Or so at least the toadies of the CCP would have you believe.  According to People’s Daily,...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events

Sinai -etic analogies

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Jeremiah Jenne has a post up at Fallows1 where he looks at the possibility of a Jasmine Revolution in China. He concludes that it is not that likely, as the CCP...

China/Current Events/English/visual culture

Yellow Peril Mk 3.

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 10 Comments

Lots of people have already commented on the Chinese professor video, which is getting a lot of play in the US. If you have not seen it, it is  set in the year ...

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