Defining Japaneseness: a miscellany
This report (with followups here) suggests that Japan is no longer a “classless society” but I wonder to what extent the concept of class simply to ...
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Used books online in China
The book markets and used bookstores of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and pretty much everywhere in between; their dusty piles of colourful, frayed cultural revol...
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Chinese in Motion
Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...
Yun Chi-ho’s Diary Online
Owen has posted some great links on the study of pre-modern Korean history. In one of his postings he mentioned the National History Compilation Committee (국사편찬...
Finding historical riches
A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...
Homer B. Hulbert Event
I made a visit to the foreigner’s cemetery located at on the Seoul Union Church grounds in Hapjeong. Today banners were hanging in several places around t...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
Asian History Carnival #6
The 6th Asian History Carnival will be hosted at Frog in a Well – Korea on August 8th! We are looking for good posts on Asian history posted around the in...
A Guokui for the contemporary masses
I was checking through CDT the other day (as I do when I’m in the mood to circumvent certain walls that surround my current location) and came across the ...
Self-introduction: Scott Relyea 李皓同
Hi everyone at 井底之蛙, First of all, I’d like to thank Konrad for the invitation to join the Frog in a Well community. I’m happy to become part of wha...
Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology 2006 Conference
Thanks to Antti for making note of the fact that all the papers for the 2006 annual conference of the Korean Society for Cultural Anthropology are available onl...
Yasukuni: Why the Emperor Stopped Going
There have been two relatively important Japan history-related news items in the news of late. There have been revelations about US covert funding of Japanese p...
Patriotic School Athletics – under the Japanese and After
To observe that modern “physical culture” (athletics) training in the compulsory schooling system is something closely linked to the conscription sy...
Japanese Historical Text Initiative at UC Berkeley
A recent message on H-Japan from Yuko Okubo at UC Berkeley announced an interesting online resource: The Japanese Historical Text Initiative Here is a part of t...
Korea University: 2nd International Forum on Korean Studies
Last week I attended (actually, I think the word “crashed” is more accurate) the 2nd International Forum on Korean Studies held by Korea University....