For my next impression, Josephine Owens!
This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...
Category: Events
SHAFR Roundtable on Pearl Harbor (Plus HNN Bonus Article)
In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the US at Pearl Harbor, the Society for the History of American Foreign Relations has published a ser...
December 7, 1941, Pittsburg, Kansas
One of our graduate assistants came in recently with an old newspaper that her husband had found on a deconstruction job. Considering that it was, apparently, s...
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...
America’s “Lost Decade”
Paul Krugman wrote a column in which he argued that the last decade in the US has been a waste of time, economically speaking: But from an economic point of vie...
Happy Birthday PRC
Chinabeat has put together some pretty good links that outline many of the festivities going on for the big 60th anniversary. The following link outlines 10 of ...
PRC National Anthem
In honor of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic on October 1st, my friend Carsey Yee has sent another video: The Two Chinese...
The twentieth anniversary
I have, as it turns out, very little to say that I didn’t say five years ago, but I’ll reproduce it under the fold. Reading this year’s crop o...
Film Festival
Just received this from friends at the Japanese American National Museum: The Japanese American National Museum is accepting film & video submissions for th...
Samurai-related events, Bowers Museum
The Bowers Museum in southern California opens a new exhibition this Sunday, “Art of the Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum.” In con...
Conference in Japan on Media in the Foreign Concessions
If you understand Japanese, are in Tokyo, and interested in the history of the foreign concessions of China, you may find a conference being held at Waseda of i...
Big Book Sale at Columbia University Press
Some great bargains at the Columbia University Press White Sale with lots of offerings in Asian history and literature.
'China Network' at Cambridge
If you will forgive the promotion, this may be of interest to other Frogs… Cambridge University’s humanities centre (CRASSH) recently received fundi...
Conference at the Huntington Library
I’ve been wanting to write about a wonderful local resource, the Huntington, for a long time, but couldn’t figure out how to work it into a post. It...