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Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

Books/China/English/Song/visual culture

Understanding China Through Comics

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The third volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out, and it is good. In my previous reviews I talked about how well the books explained Chinese histor...

China/English/Public History/Qing/visual culture

China's first statue?

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I found this in 圖書日報, I think from 1910. It is a statue of Lin Zexu that may be China’s first public statue. It is of course not the first statue to exist...

China/English/Teaching/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

The internet is awesome-Chinese history in film version

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

British Pathé  has put some 80,000 of their old newsreels on YouTube. This is a massive treasure trove of cool stuff, and the many hours I will spend looking at...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Media

Socialism is good

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Finally. Just in time for the end of the semester. I managed to find an on-line version of Socialism Is Good. Well, not just a version. There are lots of fairly...

China/English/Food/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

I made tea eggs today

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, ...

Books/China/English/Republican/Science and Technology

Unearthing the Nation

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Grace Yen Shen’s Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China is a really good book. Shen says that at first “it took a lot o...

bibliography/China/English/Teaching

Digital resources

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been looking through two really useful digital resources lately. One is the Hathi Trust website. They have been digitizing stuff for some time, and the s...

China/Classics/English/Gender/Qin-Han/Teaching

Exemplary Women

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A new translation of the Lienu zhuan is out, under the title Exemplary Women of Early China The book was compiled by Liu Xiang, mostly from older sources, so it...

Books/China/English/Nationalism/Public History

China's Museums

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I have been reading China’s Museums, part of the Cambridge University Press series Introductions to Chinese Culture. I am finding the table of contents pa...

China/Countryside/Current Events/English/Public History/Qing

History and tourism in China

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

China File has been following the attempts of the town of Bishan  to make itself into a tourist destination. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in China, and...

China/English/Teaching/visual culture

Boxers and Saints

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I did a class that focused on the Boxers last semester, and one of the things I talked about was Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers and Saints. This is a two volume ...

Books/China/English/Song/War

Professors as booty

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Patricia Ebrey’s new book on the Song emperor Huizong. For those of you who don’t know him he known for being the most artistica...

China/English/Food/Public History

Underage drinking in Southeast Asia

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently the Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore is worth seeing. Although I have not been, it seems that they currently have an exhibit up on “Guinness by...

China/English

Historians fight against the sea

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Our very own Konrad is featured in an Inside Higher Ed article on the digital embargoing of dissertations. For those of you who are not aware of it, the America...

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