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Category: Education

Current/Recent Events/Education

Going to college in China and the U.S.

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

Via Facebook, (somehow) I found this Chinese parents sleep in “tents of love” outside their college kids’ dorms to make the goodbyes easier Th...

Articles/China/Education/Web Sites and Resources

Chinese philosophy: The wild goose gradually draws near the tree

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Update-The wild goose is getting closer to the tree Apparently we are experiencing a Chinese Philosophy Fever. The Atlantic has an article up on Michael Puett&#...

China/Education/Qing

Why go to college?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Tea Leaf Nation has a post up on a micro-trend of Chinese kids not going to college, or at least one parent not being willing to pay for it, on the grounds that...

Anecdotes/China/East vs West/Education/English

Going Native

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is something from Edward V. Gulick Teaching in Wartime China: A Photo-Memoir, 1937-1939. 1 When Gulick came to China he was a young, idealistic part of the...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Education/English

When the internet gives you bad historical analogies…..

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

From Washington Monthly using the Chinese exam system as an analogy for the S.A.T., referring to an essay from n+1. The anecdote that began the n + 1 piece disc...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Education/Historiography/Japan

History Carnival CVI (December 2011-January 2012)

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Welcome to the 106th Roundup of History Blogging, a double-sized edition. Fortunately, being a blog, we never really run out of space. First, the two biggest ev...

China/Current Events/Education/English/General/Republican

ASPAC Blogging: Change in Rural China

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I heard a few China papers at ASPAC and, though they weren’t all on one panel, they might well have been, because they all dealt with the rural response t...

Books/China/Education/English/Teaching

Zhu Xi on liberal education

Posted on April 2, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

I’ve been reading Gardner’s Chu Hsi: Learning to be a Sage. The book consists of a long introduction to Zhu Xi and his work (He was the Thomas Aquin...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Education/Japan/Media/Pedagogy/Science and Technology/Teaching

New Media and Japanese Studies

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

WARNING: those of you interested in Japanese studies but not in internet technologies, new media, and the whole question of how digital learning does or doesn&#...

China/Culture/Education/English/Republican

You lost to a girl?

Posted on June 24, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Reading through 中华民国文化史 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1 I found something interesting in the section on 国术. 国术 is a term for what today would be cal...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Education

Chinese tools

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

Here are a few cool tools for those of you (like my students) who are learning Chinese. Beijing sounds is a cool blog about how Chinese is spoken in Beijing, wi...

Academia/China-Japan/Education/Events/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan

“Early Modern” Periodization

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 5 Comments

I participated in a symposium on February 1st hosted by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Institute, on the topic of early modern periodization in East Asia. It w...

China/Education

Teaching Confucius

Posted on January 22, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 10 Comments

Tomorrow I get to teach Confucius to my Rice Paddies class. This used to be a fairly easy thing to do, until the unspeakably annoying E. Bruce and A. Taeko Broo...

Cultural/Education/Japan/大正

Controversy over the origins of the Japanese schoolgirl sailor uniform

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Nick Kapur / 3 Comments

For years private girls academy Fukuoka Jogakuin in Kyushu has been credited with first introducing in 1921 the famous sailor-style uniform worn by so many midd...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Classics/Education/Qing

Why Study?

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Jeremiah from Granite Studio has  post about the debate in American universities about the relationship between education and training. Anthony Kronman claims t...

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