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Migration, Nationalism, Empire

Posted on September 1, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s recent Japan Focus article, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empi...

Diaspora/Japan/Popular Culture

Otakon: Desperately Seeking Academics

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I hear through the grapevine that the organizers of Otakon, the huge anime/manga/pop culture convention held every in August in Baltimore, are looking for acade...

Academia/bibliography/Books and Articles/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Science and Technology/US-Japan/明治

Wonders of Modern Life

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, ｼﾞｬﾊﾟﾆｰｽﾞﾃﾞｲｱｽﾎﾟﾗ, 足立伸子（編著), including my article ...

Diaspora/Events/Japan/US-Japan

Conference at the Huntington Library

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

I’ve been wanting to write about a wonderful local resource, the Huntington, for a long time, but couldn’t figure out how to work it into a post. It...

China/Chinese/Diaspora/Gender/Identity/Post-Mao

中华文化永恒精神价值

Posted on February 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

早报有好奇怪的文件关于中国得婚姻制度。作者叶鹏飞谈到中国的离婚率上升。在一部分时一个建立在史学研究基础上的观点。他说道国外婚姻制度的改变，特别斯泰芬尼·库茨（Stephanie Coontz) 的书。对我来说这是很有意思，因为在美国的报纸如果有一事可以说有”永恒精神“就是我们的婚姻制度。但是，他也说道中国文化的...

Academia/Diaspora/Japan/Memory/Nationalism

AHA 2008: a very limited perspective

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It was a very busy conference for me, but my meetings didn’t leave me a lot of time for panels.1 None, in fact, except for our own, which was great fun. I...

China/China-Japan/China-U.S./Diaspora/Japan

Fortune Cookie History

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the origin of the Fortune Cookie! As the NY Times reports, the origi...

China-Japan/Diaspora/Food/Japan/US-Japan

Fortune Cookie History

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

A grad student from Kanagawa University may have cracked the great riddle of Asian cuisine: the origin of the Fortune Cookie! As the NY Times reports, the origi...

Archaeology/China/Diaspora/Economics

The Chinese are way more advanced than the Americans

Posted on January 1, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Geoff Wade sent a long message to H-Asia detailing the current status of the raising of the Nanhai1, a large Song dynasty (or maybe Ming dynasty, accounts vary)...

Academia/Diaspora/English/Japan/US-Japan

Infrequency

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I was looking over the new US Census name frequency lists [via] and noticed that there were no obviously Japanese names in the top 1000.1 In fact, the highest r...

Art/Diaspora/Japan/Museums/US-Japan

Giant Robot Exhibition

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

The Japanese American National Museum once again displays its amazing ability to hone in on topics of widespread interest while still staying true to its missio...

Diaspora/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Literature/昭和

Diasporic Remnants

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’m always interested in interesting tales and connections regarding the Japanese diaspora. Here’s a couple that I’ve run across: New research...

China-Japan/Cultural/Diaspora/Historiography/Japan/Memory/War

Reminder to self: Complicating History

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

This is an old-fashioned web-log post: links that I don’t want to lose in the ether or the depths of my Eudora folders. Both are from Japan Focus, and bot...

Diaspora/Education/General/International Affairs/Japan/US-Japan/明治

Hawaiian Kanji

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

No, I’m not going to show you some cartoon of a spam musubi or a “remove your shoes” sign. This is, apparently, serious stuff: Educators worki...

China/Diaspora/English/Labor/Post-Mao

It's not a direct flight

Posted on July 13, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

An account of how one Chinese migrant got to Italy, from Pieke et. al Transnational Chinese I got out of China with an official passport. A fake one. I mean it ...