Japanese War Related Survey and its Results
Sasaki Kei, one of our contributors at the Japanese history blog here at Frog in a Well pointed out some results of a survey recently released in the Japanese p...
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Prof. Yi Hŏnch’ang (이헌창) and his “Outline of Korean Economic History”
A couple of days ago, I had the happy opportunity to meet Prof. Yi Hŏnch’ang (이헌창, 고려대), one of Korea’s leading economical historians. The meeting t...
The Korean Folk Village
A few days ago I visited the Korean Folk Village near Suwŏn. You can learn all about the village from the English version of its propaganda video, complete with...
Carnival of Bad History #6
Welcome to the Sixth Edition of the Carnival of Bad History! I’m going to start with that most excellent material — that which is found and nominate...
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Laughter and Tears on the Charles
A book I’ve been waiting for for a long time is finally almost out [PDF]. Adam Kern, an old friend from graduate school, has been working on Edo-period hu...
Forty Years Ago
The New York Times has a short interview with two women who played pivotal roles in the Cultural revolution NIE YUANZI was an ambitious college professor whose ...
A simple Miscellany
Ralph Luker‘s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of 1421 by Bill Poser and friends (in two parts; note: Is Menzies just making up words in ...
How much do your students remember?
I’m looking over the Condensed History of China (Thanks, Simon) and thinking to myself “yeah, it’s brutally short, but if my students remember...
Long March Revision: Diminishing Sources
Christian Science Monitor has a substantial article about Sun Shuyan’s new book Long March (previously noted here), leadng this time with the book’s...
Satire, self-parody and court jesters
I was looking for a good way to announce my new position as a member of the Carnival of Bad History team, when Geoff Wade sent this to H-Asia, and Prof. Goodman...
Tombs on Tuesday
Apparently, failure to follow sterile work protocols have resulted in damaging molds in the Takamatsuzaka tomb. I don’t understand why, in situations like...
Asian History Carnival #4
Big thanks to Katrina for putting together our fourth Asian history carnival. You can find it at Miscellany.
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...
To Stab a Historian
I have been compiling notes and comparing various narratives of modern Japanese history in preparation for my orals. It is easy to lose touch with the bigger pi...