Down with the Xia!
People who have been following the Three Dynasties chronology debate have already seen this article by Li Liu and Hong Xu “Rethinking Erlitou: legend, his...
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What can China learn from the Jews
Via 鲍昆 an interview with Lydia Liu1 Liu’s work has to to with the difficulties of cultural contact and translation in the 19th century, so it is nice to s...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”
Do Chinese lie? The Western media have jumped on recent revelations about doctoring the Olympic opening ceremonies and allegations about false ages of their gym...
Asian History Carnival 21:1
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Lin Yutang and Chinese literature
One of my neighbors was doing some spring cleaning and brought me this. Lin was a notable if somewhat minor intellectual figure in China but his real fame came ...
Documentary on Taiwanese Child Laborers in WWII
A friend of mine here in Taiwan lent me what is probably the best historical documentary I have seen in a long time: 緣的海平線 SHONENKO 臺灣少年工的故事. Whenever I come ac...
The Sideshow in Korea?
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean...
舊版報紙資訊網: Initial Thoughts and Technical Review
I have been spending a few days looking at one of the important early postwar newspapers in Taiwan, 臺灣新生報, using the microfilm collection on the 6th floor Taiwa...
National Taiwan University Library
I’ve started an entry for the NTU Library at the EALA wiki. Besides the fact that this is a wonderful library by any international standard, I’m rea...
Old Friends in New Contexts
One of the fun things for me about the “Rise of China” and the prominence it continues to gain in Western media, economics and culture, is reconnect...
Noted without comment
Some interviews with those involved here.
樂學書局: The Lexis Book Co.
Thanks to a tip shared by a fellow graduate student I met here yesterday, I learnt about another excellent academic bookstore here in Taipei which is, I’m...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Taiwan 1946: Asking, "What is Democracy?" – in Japanese
Over on Frog in a Well – Japan I wrote a posting about a 1946 Taiwanese pamphlet written in Japanese put out by 臺灣新生報 that may be of interest to readers o...
Are the Chinese fascists?
Jed Perl has a piece up attacking Chinese art at TNR. As any number of people have pointed out Contemporary Chinese ArtTM is booming. For Perl, however, it̵...