The Lead Poisoning Thesis
Some research is startling, and some research confirms what we already guessed or assumed, but there’s some research which falls between these categories:...
Category: English
Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics
Reading The Way of the Sword while listening to the “Restoring Honor” event, I began to wonder if our current shift to discourses of honor and warri...
Tears and sincerity
A while back I was wondering why people in classical Chinese texts seemed to cry so much. Was being able to shed tears on demand something that people were supp...
"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism
Over at the invaluable Danwei, Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...
Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Memory/US-Japan/江戸
Judge Ooka’s Sidekick, part two: The Ghost In the Tokaido Inn and In Darkness, Death
After reading the last two installments in the Hooblers’ samurai detective series, I got hold of the first two. There are still two I have not read, obvio...
JOURNAL WATCH: H-DIPLO JOURNAL AND PERIODICAL REVIEW
A major problem nowadays is to somehow find that newly published article in a journal you don’t subscribe to – I miss enough articles in the journals I do subsc...
Blogging and Events
I am in Portland, at ASPAC 2010, and having my usual conference fun. It’s a pretty full schedule, so I’m not going to try to blog during, but I̵...
Private views of Chinese history
Recently I went to the Jianchuan museums, which are in Anren, just outside Chengdu. It is an interesting place first because it is huge, financed by mogul Fan J...
Cities and Nationalisms Conference
This conference will take place in London on 17-18 June 2010. “Cities have been intimately connected with nationalisms of many kinds. The architecture and spati...
Academia/Colonial/Conferences/English/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/US-Korea
AAS 2010 Blogging: Annexation Centennial
Final exams crash onto my desk tomorrow, but I’m as organized as I can be in advance, so I thought I’d do a little belated AAS blogging, especially ...
Guides at Frog in a Well
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
Famous bloggers
I have been remiss in pointing out that you should all go see how famous our 弟妹 blog on Japan is getting to be Or at least how one of its bloggers is moving int...
AAS Blogging: outsourced
I didn’t get to any China-specific panels at the AAS, but the good folks at China Beat have a few panel summaries worth taking a look at. You can find som...
Revolution in pictures
Here, from Stapleton’s Civilizing Chengdu is Yang Wei, Chinese Revolutionary, in prison, November 25, 1911. Below is a picture of Yang as superintendent o...