Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea
this via: White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would like to see a U.S. role in Iraq ultimately similar to that in South Korea. “The Korean model is ...
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Paul Chiasson’s contribution to Menzies’ thesis has been getting press again. Though it’s been pretty thoroughly rejected by knowledgable acad...
A rose by any other name
As many of our readers already know, the Taiwanese government has re-named the Chiang Kai-shek memorial in Taibei, now known as the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Ha...
Reflecting on a semester
We’ve been talking about our syllabi for a while here at the Frogs, but we haven’t done a lot of post-semester commentary. I had two Asia courses th...
Leni Riefenstahl meets Busby Berkeley
Eugenia Lean’s new book is very interesting. It is a study of Shi Jianqiao’s 1935 assassination of Sun Chuanfang, the former warlord who had killed ...
Married couples
2 married couples, from China Digital Times As both Mother’s Day and her birthday are coming up, I thought I would post something romantic for my wife. GT...
Zhu De's Request for a $20 Million Favor
In the Sino-Japanese conflict that stretched from the 1930s until 1945 Chinese “puppet” military forces were to be found wherever Japanese occupatio...
How air-minded was China?
Airplanes and airpower were an important part of Chiang Kai-shek’s vision of a new China. In part I think this may have been connected to his disappoi...
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What’s New?
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Center for Japanese Studies has a new collection of Occupation-era photographs. I’m struck by two things in parti...
It's not Imperialism
Via Yahoo a roundup of recent stuff on China’s involvement in Africa. China of course has growing economic interests in Africa and very little interest in...
Maps and Empire
Maps have been an important part of empire in China for a long time. In the Warring States period spies were always trying to steal maps, and defeated states pr...
More technological coolness
This is probably not news to many of our readers, but you can now download the entire 1941 animated film Princess Iron Fan from Internet Archive. It is p...
More geographical coolness
Konrad’s post on the GIS dataset below is well worth looking at, as this is a very cool dataset.
China Historical GIS Data Sets Project Available
There was an announcement on H-Asia which might be of interest to historians and researchers that appreciate the power of GIS geographic information data. This ...
A stupid idea that will never work
Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...