Gregory Henderson Reporting on a Massacre
I’ve recently been looking through 한국전쟁과 집단학살 (Organized Massacres and the Korean War) by 김기진. The work focuses primarily on crimes against civilians carr...
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Taiwan Bookstores EALA Page Updated
I have updated the Taiwan Bookstores page on the EALA wiki, adding two books and updating the link for SMC Publishing. If you are in Taipei and are looking for ...
Changeless China (post 3,743 in a series)
Strange Maps (quite possibly the coolest blog in the universe) has this map of more-or-less Han China. The map comes from here, and is part of a summary of a &#...
You lost to a girl?
Reading through 中华民国文化史 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1 I found something interesting in the section on 国术. 国术 is a term for what today would be cal...
Summer is here
Today is the first day of summer here in Pennsylvania, which must mean it is time for a reading from 呂氏春秋 Lüshi Chunqiu LSCQ is best described as a philosophica...
Celebrity endorsements
For those of you who missed it, Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama. I’m not sure how much this matters. Very few Gore supporters were going to vote for McCain....
Foreign influence on China's revolution
I found this picture on Southeast Asia Visions1 It is from Siam and China by Besso, Salvatore (1914) I was a bit confused about what it was showing. Surely Marc...
If you prick Taiwanese savages, do they not bleed?
I want to share just one more short passage from Small Sea Travel Diaries, the English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiw...
Chinese Description of Dutch Suicide Tactics
Another quick quote from Small Sea Travel Diaries, the English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiwan in the 17th century b...
A Moment of Humility
I just finished reading Small Sea Travel Diaries which is an English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiwan in the 17th cen...
Show me the money
From the Times via CDT an article about a group of Chinese intellectuals who are asking for some new people to be put on Chinese currency. This is actually a bi...
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis*
How did the modern Chinese historians create a national history? One aspect of this is the creation of protohistory, explaining what was going on in a place bef...
Breaking news
The top 10 Chinese archaeological finds for 2007 have been announced (Chinese descriptions are a bit longer).1 The winner is the Lingjing Paleolithic Site in He...
More public sphere
Lots of stuff out there on how response to the earthquake is leading to a more robust public sphere in China. People are self-organizing, money is being collect...
Comparative religion
Teaching about religions is always tricky in part because I and most of my students are heavily influenced by the Christian (especially Protestant) idea that th...