Weird Orientalism
The kids and I have been playing a game called Great Wall of China, which is a German board game1 (actually a card game) designed by Reiner Knizia, who judging ...
Category: English
International gender studies conference
For those of you who happen to be in Shanghai, Fudan University will be hosting China’s first international gender studies conference in a couple of weeks...
Destruction in the name of progress
Kashgar, China, a city often on the map for historians (especially historians of the silk road) has recently come to the attention of many around the world beca...
English/Foreign Views/General/globalization/Japan/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/US-Japan/昭和
Before the miniseries, there was….
I’m not sure when my family got this game, but I remember playing with it in the late 70s. Though Shogun is described as a “digital” game, the...
The twentieth anniversary
I have, as it turns out, very little to say that I didn’t say five years ago, but I’ll reproduce it under the fold. Reading this year’s crop o...
Student Protests in Han China
June is the month to blog about student protests in China. There have been a lot of them, and like other types of protesters Chinese students often consciously ...
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Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido
I almost didn’t check Chris Bradford‘s Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior out of the library when I saw it, but some instinct told me that it was...
Male and female lightly engaged in erotic excess
The behavior of the people, the cosmic order, and the stability of the state were all linked in traditional Chinese political theory. Disorder in one would lead...
Edging out the competition
For all those keeping track, behind youtube, the most recent site to be blocked by the firewall is blogspot. This means, for our readers in China, that China Be...
China at War
Something cool via Wikipedia. A film of a naval engagement in the First Sino-Japanese war. It comes from a Japanese site, and I’m not sure of the provenan...
But what about the books?
So supposedly they are going to tear down my office building and replace it with a new one. This may end up not happening, and it will probably not happen real ...
人民日报's Suez Canal (and other commentary)
As I was flipping through the People’s Daily from the 1950s recently, something completely unrelated to my research caught my attention[1]: political c...
Revising history: Brief notes
Quick hits: It’s one of the most difficult periods of modern history to teach, and I love using primary sources for the tough times, so I’m always g...
May 4th is irrelevant
May Fourth is here and one of the things that makes the 21st century great is that if you want to read some May Fourth writers you don’t have to go to you...