Japanese Diaspora at ASPAC
As I mentioned here and here, I had some great discussions about the question of diaspora at ASPAC. The dividing line between Asian studies and Asian American s...
Category: Diaspora
(A Little) Chinese History at ASPAC
There was, I’ll admit, a lot of Chinese content at ASPAC which I didn’t see. Such is life. I did see two papers which I want to discuss here briefly...
Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources
Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Globalized Chinese Culture
Chinese culture is global culture. Though Hawai’i is, in some ways, not a good sample, nonetheless there’s an awful lot of Chinese culture which has...
Discover Nikkei
I’ve been working on a project with the Japanese American National Museum for my seminar “Japanophilia,” and have gotten to know their amazing...
Blogs and Carnivals/China/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Identity/Nationalism/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources
Chinese in Motion
Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...
Viewing Africa from Asia
(This is a comment on Tim Burke’s syllabus on Images of Africa cross-posted from his blog. I am putting it up here to see if anyone has any suggestions on image...
ASPAC Notes: Demographics and States
Historian of Empires Niall Ferguson [via Ralph Luker] recently wrote: Since 1989, the Russian mortality rate has risen from below 11 per 1,000 to more than 15 p...