Education in pictures
As we are at mid-semester I thought it would be a nice time to think about Education, with a little help from Feng Zikai, Republican China’s best-known ca...
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Dogs again
As a follow-up to Konrad’s post below I came across something on dogs in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, where he is lamenting the passing of the old city, ...
Guest Blogger- Ou-yang Hsiu
Lots of bits of Chinese prose would make great blog entries. (A blog is basically a biji, more or less) Plus, they make great things to teach from. So, if any o...
Things I don’t know about Korea, part 2
I’m having great fun with this class, but I’m still discovering vast areas of ignorance as we move along: Eunuchs: The Kabo reforms abolish the offi...
China Rises? China Wakes?
“Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.” Napoleon? Although there’s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote ...
China gets modern
A nice photo essay from Financial Times on railways in Inner Mongolia. Lots of nice pics, but the thing that amazed me was that the author was traveling with a...
China and the Middle Ground
This week, our East Asia History Reading Group had the fortune of discussing Richard White’s The Middle Ground with Professor White himself. The purpose o...
Books on Hong Kong
Recently, I’ve been leaning my research towards Hong Kong (a subject I tend to write about a lot…). I found that a lot of scholars of China and scho...
Oh Hell
It occurred to me that some of our readers may also have occasion to teach about Chinese conceptions of the afterlife, and specifically Chinese Hell. I got some...
TR’s legacy for FDR: Japanese Aggression?
I really didn’t want to get into the discussion about James Bradley’s op-ed and interview because it’s finals season, and because the argument...
Brick, baby
I don’t know how many Chinese cities have these, but in Xian the buses mostly have Emergency Bricks They are set on those two pins, so they don’t mo...
China, where the future is already the past
I have tried to stay off the subject of how the internet will change the world, since there is enough of that on the internet already. I was struck by this piec...
Ueda Akinari translation
PMJS has published William Clarke and Wendy Cobcroft’s annotated translation of Ueda Akinari’s Tandai Shoshinroku, available as a free PDF and also ...
Sino-Korean relations (Or, why American newspapers stink)
John Judis has a nice peice up at TNR that uses Obama’s trip to Asia to illustrate why American newspapers are so worthless for the non bird-owning segm...
Nine Nations
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...