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Category: Diaspora

Books/Diaspora/Historiography/India/International Affairs/Revolution

Can a historian malign a ruling race?

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A book I have been reading for fun this summer is Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. It is a history of the various ...

Asian American/Diaspora/Ethnic Minorities/globalization/Historiography/Imperialism/India/Nationalism

Diaspora experience as a function of modernity, imperialism, and nationalism.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From my online course on Asia-US migration, an upcoming discussion: The second half of [Vinay] Lal’s book [The Other Indians: A Political And Cultural His...

Aviation/Diaspora/Gender/visual culture

The Oriental and its readership

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...

Diaspora/Diplomacy

The threat of Chinese imperialism in the 1920’s- Teacher training edition

Posted on January 5, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

In the 1920’s officials in the Dutch East Indies became concerned about the threat of Chinese Imperialism. This was a new concern for them. For a very lon...

Diaspora/photography

The Chinese in Chicago

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you want to see a bunch of old Chicago Tribune pictures of life in Chinatown? Of course you do. Here is Anna May Wong visiting Chicago And Mei Lanfang Protes...

Asian American/China/Diaspora/English/Ethnic Minorities/Web Sites and Resources

When the Chinese went out for Jews

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

For the benefit of our Chinese readers, as well as anyone else who has not seen this excellent piece, I would like to introduce Scott Seligman’s “Th...

Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Japan/昭和

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Atrocities/Contemporary/Diaspora/General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/US-Korea

Diaspora And Diplomatic Communities Memorialize Conflict

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

A memorial plaque was dedicated in a park in Palisades Park, New Jersey in 2010 which reads In Memory of the more than 200,000 women and girls who were abducted...

Academia/Diaspora/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism

Moving Migration Into History

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via Aaron Bady, I saw a wonderful article by Imke Sturm-Martin about the challenges of integrating migration history into the mainstream of European historical ...

Academia/Diaspora/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/明治

AAS 2010: Annexation Centennial

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...

Books and Articles/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/General/Japan/photography

AAS Love – Self Promotion Edition

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s a good week for me and the Association for Asian Studies. I just got my Journal of Asian Studies in the mail. Not only did I get the journal, but

China/China-Canada/Diaspora/Web Sites and Resources

Source: Chinese Canadian Newspapers

Posted on March 13, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Historical sources of various kinds are making it online all the time. I recently came across a digital collection of Chinese newspapers from Canada available a...

China/China-Japan/Diaspora/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

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...

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/Diaspora/General/Historiography/Japan/US-Japan

Ron Takaki has passed away

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

AndrewMc passes on the word from AsianWeek that one of the founders of ethnic studies and real multi-ethnic immigration history has passed away. Takaki was an A...

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