On Wikipedia
Charles had a nice post a while back on Wikipedia and the changing world of scholarship. He deals pretty well with what wikipedia is (an on-line, collectively e...
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Chinese in the Great War
As it is 11/11 Blood and Treasure has a nice post up on Chinese laborers along with a link with lots of great pics. B&T suggests that Chinese laborers in th...
The end of export-led growth?
I don’t post much about current affairs1 but the current Chinese stimulus package seems worth talking about. To forestall the possibility of an economic d...
Virtual Forbidden City
Imagethief has been discussing the Virtual Forbidden City. Basically this is something that looks a lot like a Second Life site but you have to download the who...
Mountains, Vikings, and Chinese Poetry
Lots of people seem to like Chinese poetry. The latest NYRB has a review of a reprint of A.C. Graham’s Poems of the Late T’ang by Eliot Weinberger.1...
What to do with temples?
Another in our occasional series on teaching aids. One aspect of Chinese modernization that most teachers mention is the modernizing state’s need for buil...
Invisible Books – Might Have Been Written But Never Were
The Italian writer Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a dreamy fabulation on cities that Marco Polo might have visited – if only they had existed. Of cou...
A Blog Post Upon Roast Pig
I was reading a discussion of progressive economics at Progressive Historians and was stopped dead in my tracks by a quote from Henry George There is a delusion...
Living With Wikipedia (China Beat) and Social Bookmarking
China Beat asked me to pull together some thoughts on “WIKIPEDIA, the Free Encyclopedia.” With help from several friends, including Alan Baumler and Konrad Laws...
Chinese Rough Music
China Beat has a post up from Kate Merkel-Hess on the latest evolution of the “human flesh search engine”, which can be described as Chinese netizen...
A disappointment
I’ve been enjoying the textbook I’m using for World History this fall: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s The World: A History. It covers the entire w...
21st Asian History Carnival Pt II Now Posted
Leanne Ogasawara has posted Pt II of the 21st Asian History Carnival at her Tang Dynasty Times. Although she complains that the blogosphere is in a depression a...
Pirates!
September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Again. I was going to do a short bit on the current state of Chinese pirate scholarship1 but Robert Ant...
Pearl Buck's Intriguing Staying Power: Imperial Woman
Parade Magazine (September 14, 2008) asked Laura Bush what she’s been reading: “The Imperial Woman, by Pearl S. Buck. I picked up this book after re...
"Never the Twain Shall (Track) Meet": Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Olympic Lies
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management has a well informed insider’s view of the Olympics, “Olympics Reveal East-West Divide.” (F...