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Category: Foreign Views

Academia/Foreign Views/Japan

Japan’s Imperial Universities Today

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The last time I looked at Japanese universities in a global ranking, I commented that most of the universities on this list were the product of the US Occupatio...

Foreign Views/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/US-Japan/平成/昭和

HNN, NYT Post Competing Japan Election Analysis

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

HNN has posted an extended version of the Soft and Fuzzy history I posted a few days ago. What I’ve added, for the general readership, is more background ...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/General/Historiography/Japan/War/明治

World War Wannabee: Russo-Japanese War?

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Brett Holman notes a new contender in the “really First World War” sweepstakes — the Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars being leading early c...

China/China-Japan/Diaspora/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I just learned of the Japanese Emperor and Empress’ visit to Hawai’i [via]. It’s not the first time that a member of the Japanese Imperial fam...

English/Foreign Views/General/globalization/Japan/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/US-Japan/昭和

Before the miniseries, there was….

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not sure when my family got this game, but I remember playing with it in the late 70s. Though Shogun is described as a “digital” game, the...

anniversaries/China/Current Events/English/Events/Foreign Views/Post-Mao

The twentieth anniversary

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

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...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/Gender/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

I almost didn’t check Chris Bradford‘s Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior out of the library when I saw it, but some instinct told me that it was...

China/English/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Qing/Tibet

Following Younghusband to Lhasa

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Scott Relyea / 12 Comments

Just a quick post of a wonderful website I stumbled upon doing a bit of background research for a point I needed to make in the chapter I’m currently work...

China/Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Ming/Post-Mao

Zhou Confucianism? Ming Quality Control?

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

In an absolutely fascinating article on the modern petition redress system1 focusing on attempts by regional officials to prevent petitions from reaching a nati...

China/English/Foreign Views/Web Sites and Resources

When America looked East (or maybe West)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Speechwars.com lets you see how many times American presidents have used various words in their State of the Union addresses. This is not a perfect representati...

Current/Recent Events/Foreign Views/General/Japan/Nationalism/Religion

Sumo and tradition

Posted on February 5, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

The NYTimes Lede blog [thanks, Mom!] linked Michael Phelps’ marijuana scandal to a scandal in Japanese sumo1 which has resulted in four retirements. They ...

Art/Foreign Views/General/Historiography/Japan/Web Sites/江戸

Dutch Futurists

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 14 Comments

Alan Baumler pointed me to peacay’s recent post of Dutch images of 17th century Japan. Some of them are quite accurate — the images of samurai, in p...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Newspapers/Qing

Liveblogging the Boxers

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Military historian David Silbey is going to be blogging through the Boxer Uprising as seen through the New York Times. Though this is a little more of a distant...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./Culture/English/Foreign Views

Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face

Posted on December 12, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...

China/Current Events/Foreign Views/Newspapers/Post-Mao

奥巴马mania

Posted on December 4, 2008 by gina / 5 Comments

I just joined this website, but I was surprised to see no post about the American elections in China (perhaps I found it surprising because it has been so press...

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