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Category: Diplomacy

Diplomacy/Events/Gender/Propaganda/visual culture

For my next impression, Josephine Owens!

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...

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...

Anecdotes/China/Diplomacy/English/Imperialism

A clash of symbols

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

In the introduction of Julia Lovell’s The Opium War she discusses an incident from November, 2010. David Cameron had gone to China, and it being November ...

Books/China/Diplomacy/English

If we want to revere China, there is no greater reverence than to put the Chinese ways into practice

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Thanks to Columbia University Press I just got a copy of David Kang, East Asia Before the West: Five Centuries of Trade and Tribute1 This is  a very fine book, ...

China/Diplomacy/Ming

Ming Imperialism

Posted on February 21, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I just found something interesting about the early Ming. It appears from the Ming Shi-lu that the Ming founder at first just sent envoys to various tributary st...

China/China-U.S./Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Zhou Enlai and The Chinese Omelette

Posted on January 8, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 6 Comments

The lively and informed blog, Jottings from the Granite Studio, January 8 has a well turned piece “This date in history: The Death of Zhou Enlai.” The piece sho...

Articles/China/Diplomacy

How many times can we lose China?

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

via James Fallows a link to James C. Thomson’s “How Could Vietnam Happen?” a 1968 piece that The Atlantic has lifted from their archive. Thoms...

China/Diplomacy/Historiography/Imperialism/Qing

We have never valued ingenious articles

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

The generally excellent blog Jottings from the Granite Studio has an interesting post up on practical learning. The post is about the tendency of American unive...

China/Diaspora/Diplomacy/English/General/Post-Mao

Who cares what the Americans think?

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 23 Comments

Joshua Kurlantzick has an article in American Prospect that is both interesting and frustrating. It’s about Cambodia, and the Chinese language press there...

Articles/China/China-Japan/Diplomacy/English/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Colonialogy

Posted on February 7, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...

China/Diplomacy/English/General/Japan/War

Chinese Expansionism v. Chinese Expansion

Posted on September 8, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Andrew Meyer takes an interview with Lee Kuan Yew and turns it into a short (considering the subject matter) but deep meditation on the history of China and ...

China/China-Japan/Civil War/Diplomacy/English/Japan/Taiwan/War

51st State?

Posted on August 15, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From a formal legal standpoint, the United States never ceded possession of Taiwan [via Simon World], which it took from Japan in 1945, to the Nationalist gover...

China/Diplomacy/English/General/Ming

Hot Topics: Zheng He

Posted on July 20, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

This year is the six hundreth anniversary of the first voyage of Zheng He, notes the New York Times. The article makes no mention of Menzie’s 1421 thesis,...

Books/China/Diplomacy/Economics/General

Grain supply and military logistics in 18th century China.

Posted on July 5, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Reading Perdue’s China Marches West I was struck by how much historians are constrained by our sources and how we strain against them. The book itself (which is...

China/Diplomacy/Economics/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity

Mickey Mouse in China

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There are some interesting articles in the current Modern China, and the one I would like to comment on at present is “Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northw...

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