Thurify yourself
One of the things we have read for the May Fourth class I am teaching is Liang Qichao’s On the Relationship between Fiction and the Government of the Peop...
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Blood of the martyrs
The Chinese student group asked me to come out and talk at their showing of Jackie Chan’s 1911. As it was competing with the Stillers game attendance was ...
Very superstitious
Above is a charm carried by a Chinese soldier in 1938, re-printed in the journal Youth Front in 1938. It seems to be a Communist publication, although this bein...
Reconsidering Marco Polo
“Marco Polo’s reports of China, now judged mostly hearsay….” Perry Anderson, LRB I got an email from a student who found my blog post in which...
National Library of China- A fine place to do research
Most of our readers who might care already know this, but the National Library in Beijing is a fine place to do research on Republican China. It has it&#...
What do Samurai Have To Do With It?
I saw Margi Preus’s Heart of a Samurai (Amulet, 2010) and the title alone made me cringe: just what the world needs, another kid book touting the putative...
Zhong Kui comes to Sunnydale High
Sigh… I try to keep my posts to this blog to at least a minimal level of scholarly-ness. At the very least I try to avoid doing too many posts on weird Ch...
Winning Over the Puppets: Conclusion
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
The Eight Great Disorders and the Oppose Treason Campaign
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
Magnanimity, Repentance, and Reform
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
Traitors, Puppets, and Divided Responsibilities
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
The Wartime Gains of the Bureau
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
Zhu De and The Prices of Betrayal
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
The Registry of Good and Evil
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...
Megaphone and Frontline Propaganda
This posting is part of a series which comprise a draft dissertation chapter. Read more about it here. The first posting is found here. The post preceding this ...