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Category: Economics

Economics/Teaching

The economics of maize

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here, for your teaching pleasure, is a long quote on the value of corn (maize) in China. I often mention in class that New World crops were economically valuabl...

Economics/globalization/Historical analogies/Historiography

Was Late Imperial China Early Modern?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Zou Jiajun posted on the Sinologists Facebook group asking how the term “Early Modern” got to be used in China studies. This is a an interesting question, since...

Economics/Food/International Affairs

Canadian pot and the lessons of opium

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Apparently Canada has legalized pot. The New Republic is speculating that they may find it hard to get an official distribution system to replace the old illega...

1980s/Current/Recent Events/East vs West/Economic/Economics/Japan/US-Japan

President Trump’s Historical Consciousness: Bowling Ball Edition

Posted on March 15, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Trump, at a recent event, recycled an old chestnut I haven’t heard in years He accused Japan of using gimmicks to deny U.S. auto companies acces...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Economics/Teaching

Teaching export-led growth

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach about export-led growth in Asia? Like to talk about the process of oh, say China, gradually exporting increasing amounts of stuff to the U.S., and ...

China-Japan/Economics/Food

Protests, national identity, and food

Posted on July 26, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via LGM I find this piece on anti KFC protests in China. KFC was once known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, but they have changed their name to KFC, in part to make ...

China/Economics

Salt, China, and Wikipedia

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Slate has a post up on the abolition of the Chinese salt monopoly, and they are amazed  that something that has existed for 2,600 years is now being abolished. ...

China/Economics/English/Environment

Land of rice, without fish

Posted on April 28, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There has been a some talk about China and fish of late, and while I generally don’t like me too posts, I think China’s relationship with fish is in...

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...

Anecdotes/China/China-U.S./Current Events/Economics/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...

China/Current Events/Economics/Republican

Knitting with steel

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

NYT reports (via CDT) that China is offering to help California build a high-speed rail network. The Times’ take is that the worm has certainly turned if ...

China/Countryside/Economics

Why can't an economist be more like a(n) historian?

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue are all economists and they are doing interesting work on rural-urban migration in China. Given that China has better reg...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Economics/English/Historiography

Nine Nations

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

With Obama in China lots of websites want to say something about China and What It All Means. For example, The Atlantic has a post by Patrick Chovanic that desc...

Archaeology/China/Economics/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Modern Archaeology

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Great Leap Forward era backyard iron furnaces have been unearthed [via] and there is discussion about whether to preserve them as historical evidence, even a cu...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Economics

Beer in China

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Robert Bickers has a nice post up at China Beat on the early history of Qingdao beer. Its a good post and sheds a lot of light on the early history of what is n...

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