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Category: Foreign Views

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/US-Japan/安土桃山/江戸

Young Samurai: Way of the Dragon and the Battle of Osaka

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The third installment of Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series shifts modes mid-book, when the action moves from the original Harry Potter-esque bildungsr...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Media/US-Japan

History as it happens

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Though I’m usually not shy about speaking historically when big events happen, I’ve been very reticent on the Tohoku disasters. As others have point...

Academia/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Syllabus Blogging: Modern Japan and World History

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s been a while since I did some syllabus blogging, but the most interesting course I was going to teach last semester didn’t come through,1 so it...

Archaeology/Books/China/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qin-Han

Monumental Histories

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Quite by coincidence, I ended up reading three books on Chinese monuments, but not until the third did I realize that what I was reading was a history of modern...

Archives/English/Events/Foreign Views/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Memory/US-Japan/War/昭和

December 7, 1941, Pittsburg, Kansas

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Data Visualization and Data Quality

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The inestimable Rob MacDougall is running a course on Digital History, and even better, he’s running it more or less publicly! I’m getting all kinds...

Anecdotes/China/China-U.S./Current Events/Economics/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

China, the Hobgoblin of Small Minds

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I had a student ask me in class, recently, about whether China, among other countries, was planning to take advantage of our coming collapse to move into a posi...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Anecdotes/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Japan/martial arts

Young Samurai II: A Bad Start

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

I picked up the second installment of the Young Samurai at the library today. I was thinking about starting it, and looked at the back inside dust cover, where ...

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

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

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...

Books and Articles/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/江戸

Judge Ooka’s Sidekick: A Samurai Never Fears Death and The Sword that Cut the Burning Grass by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler

Posted on July 3, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Wandering through the children’s section of our local public library with my son, I encountered a new-to-me children’s mystery series based in Tokug...

Academia/Anecdotes/Foreign Views/Japan/Religion/US-Japan/昭和

Japan as apocalyptic fulfillment

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I have to get to my AAS blogging, I know, but I have to share something I ran across reading — of all things — David Walsh’s HNN reports from ...

China/Current Events/English/Foreign Views

China Rises? China Wakes?

Posted on February 12, 2010 by C. W. Hayford / 4 Comments

“Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.” Napoleon? Although there’s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote ...

Academia/China-Japan/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/US-Japan/War/大正/明治

TR’s legacy for FDR: Japanese Aggression?

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I really didn’t want to get into the discussion about James Bradley’s op-ed and interview because it’s finals season, and because the argument...

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