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Category: Ethnic Minorities

Asian American/Diaspora/Ethnic Minorities/globalization/Historiography/Imperialism/India/Nationalism

Diaspora experience as a function of modernity, imperialism, and nationalism.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From my online course on Asia-US migration, an upcoming discussion: The second half of [Vinay] Lal’s book [The Other Indians: A Political And Cultural His...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Asian American/China/Diaspora/English/Ethnic Minorities/Web Sites and Resources

When the Chinese went out for Jews

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

For the benefit of our Chinese readers, as well as anyone else who has not seen this excellent piece, I would like to introduce Scott Seligman’s “Th...

China/Current Events/English/Ethnic Minorities/Religion/Tibet

Heartland Mandala

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I was surprised to learn, about ten days ago, that PSU was going to be hosting a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks creating a sand mandala. This is a touring comp...

China/English/Ethnic Minorities/Taiwan

If you prick Taiwanese savages, do they not bleed?

Posted on June 8, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

I want to share just one more short passage from Small Sea Travel Diaries, the English translation of Yu Yonghe’s journal and essays from his trip to Taiw...

China/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities

U.S.-China Cooperation

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have no idea where the U.S. China relationship is going, but I have usually thought that whatever rhetoric was coming from either side of the Pacific there we...

Authors/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/English/Ethnic Minorities/Mongols and Mongolia

China's Robinson Crusoe

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been reading Wolf Totem and having a lot of fun doing so. The book, based on Jiang Rong’s time as a sent-down youth in Inner Mongolia. was a hu...

China/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity/Ming

Keeping Halal in the Ming dynasty

Posted on November 12, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 8 Comments

As regular readers know, I am interested in the question of how people are defined as Chinese. One nice bit of data comes from Hans Kuhner. He is looking at a p...

China/English/Ethnic Minorities/General/Qing/Republican/Tibet

Self-introduction: Scott Relyea 李皓同

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 2 Comments

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...

China/Ethnic Minorities/General/Nationalism/Post-Mao/Republican

Tibet by rail

Posted on July 11, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 22 Comments

It has been in the news of late that China has built a rail line to Tibet. It cost $3.2 billion, and the train cars have to be pressurized, but you can now get ...

China/Education/Ethnic Minorities/General

Even Barbarians can become good

Posted on June 30, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

How does one become a good person? That is a question that crops up a lot when one reads the Confucians. In fact, for Confucians the processes of self-cultivati...

China/Ethnic Minorities/General/Social History

Taiwanese Heroin

Posted on January 26, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

It has been rainy rather than snowy around here of late, which is very unusual for this time of year. While walking in a cold wet rain I began to try and think ...

Articles/China/English/Ethnic Minorities/General/Historiography/Japan

Boundaries within Asia

Posted on October 14, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Interesting article on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists —...

China/Diplomacy/Economics/Ethnic Minorities/General/Identity

Mickey Mouse in China

Posted on June 27, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There are some interesting articles in the current Modern China, and the one I would like to comment on at present is “Wang Luobin: Folk Song King of the Northw...

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