Whither Taiwan?
If you were wondering how different the new Ma government in Taiwan would be from the DPP government it is replacing you should go read Michael Turton’s a...
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Needling Needham
The Needham Question is hot, hot, hot! Thanks to Simon Winchester’s The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked t...
The end of polygamy in China
As some of our American readers may know the California Supreme Court has recently ruled that men and men in California can get married. This has led a number o...
Seismic politics
There is not much I can say about the earthquake in Sichuan, although I am glad to hear that all the people I know in Sichuan are safe. One thing that is pretty...
Japan Calendar Converter Dashboard Widget
After creating an OS X dashboard widget to converting Korean 檀紀 years into to western years, it was only a matter of time before another moment of distraction g...
Big Book Sale at Columbia University Press
Some great bargains at the Columbia University Press White Sale with lots of offerings in Asian history and literature.
Different understandings of history
Charles links below to an interesting piece from China Digital Times (original from Sina.com ) It is a piece by Xiong Peiyun (熊培云) defending (sort of) Chinese n...
School Strikes in Colonial Korea: 1937-1939
I had a chance to look into two primary sources on ‘school strikes (同盟休校)’ (mostly in common schools) in the colonial period of Korea (the Kominka p...
Gold Diggers of 1936
Antonia Finnane’s new book1 on modern Chinese fashion is very good in all sorts of ways, but I was struck by a couple of cartoons by Guo Jianying. The fir...
China's Robinson Crusoe
I’ve been reading Wolf Totem and having a lot of fun doing so. The book, based on Jiang Rong’s time as a sent-down youth in Inner Mongolia. was a hu...
Stop malingering
Some time ago Stefan Landsberger1 sent me some images of propaganda posters from the War with Japan. I have not blogged about them as yet due to laziness, but a...
Online Registration For the Korean National Archives
I reported in my recent posting on the Korean National Archives that online registration for the site is broken for all non-Koreans. This is unfortunate since t...
You can't say that
CDT has a list of the keywords that Chinese internet censors are looking for and banning. This is an old list from 2004,1 but some new words have been added lat...
Qing China's modern economy
Shanghaist among others reports on Asia’s growing rice crisis. Well, actually it’s only a crisis if you are trying to live on less than a dollar a day. Mu...
Delicious Asia
China Beat has a nice post up linking to some teaching resources. Although they list some really good resources that you should all go look at they leave out th...