A Break With Tradition
I’m going to break with Frog In A Well tradition this once, and comment here on something that has almost nothing to do with Asian history. I could easily...
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Symposium Commemorating the Completion of the Occupation Period Magazine Article Database
The Prange Archive online magazine article database for the occupation period was an absolutely essential tool for me in my most recent research project. If you...
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Asian History Carnival #3
Welcome to the third Asian History Carnival! It’s traditional for blog carnivals to have some kind of internal organization…. Heh.
Hightower Obituary
If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...
The Case of Taiwa Shinron
In addition to preparing for my oral exams, the most significant project I have been working on recently involves research on the early US occupation period in ...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Other Well-dwellers
Some years ago while studying in Beijing I bought a good number of nicely bound hardback volumes from a series entitled the “Library of Chinese Classics&#...
Don’t Take it Literally
I think I’ll continue making posts here and there based on a collection of US military documents from early postwar occupied Korea that I discuss in my la...
A Most Unusual Invasion
Preparations for my oral exams this spring has prevented me from contributing much recently but I have started to take an hour away from my orals reading every ...
Who Owns Koguryo Now?
Yonson Ahn’s article in the latest Japan Focus tracks the historiography of the Korean/Manchurian Koguryo state up to the present “textbook wars....
World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?
My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...
Overreading Erotica
There’s a lot of presentist fallacies and overdrawn conclusions — just because a society has a reputation for sexual restraint doesn’t mean th...
Data: Personal v. Historical
A recent initiative in the US to limit access to birth and death records [via] along with other personal data would severely limit the ability of historical and...
Wartime Media
Brett at Airminded notes the Japanese National Archives war poster collection including detailed poison gas attack instructions and anti-fire civil defense. The...