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Category: Gender

Culture/Gender/photography/Republican

Mass weddings in China-New Life Movement

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

This is a picture from a New Life Movement Mass Wedding in Nanjing. Couples could be married for a fee of only $20 after filling out a few forms and being check...

Art/Gender/visual culture

Art and status and women and mirrors and…

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image from the back of a Song dynasty mirror in the collection of Martin J. Powers. As he describes it One [woman], on the right, tends a child and s...

Gender/Japan/Teaching

Opening vignettes on Tokugawa prostitutes

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I never really responded to Jonathan’s post on opening vignettes as pedagogy, but I do like using them. In fact, I will be using a couple Monday. Sometime...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Gender/Qing/Republican/Social History/Teaching

Did Chinese women go to opium dens?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since someone asked me if Qing women went to opium dens, I thought I would answer and put up some of my evidence. Short answer – I don’t think so, a...

Books/Gender/Historiography

Women Warriors in Japanese History? Yes, but…

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The subtitle to this article tells you most of what you need to know: Christobel Hasting, “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan’s Women Samurai, Were Era...

China/Gender

Too Many Men Again

Posted on April 21, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s an article about China making the rounds: “Too Many Men” ; “In China and India, men outnumber women by 70 million. Both nations ...

Gender/Qing

Would the Boxers vote for Trump?

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Of course not. They were not registered, and in any case that would be foreign interference in an election that would Hurt The Feelings Of The American People. ...

Aviation/Diaspora/Gender/visual culture

The Oriental and its readership

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here are two pictures The one on the right is a cigarette ad from the 1930s. The one on the left is the Chinese aviatrix Lee Ya-Ching, who I have mentioned befo...

Diplomacy/Events/Gender/Propaganda/visual culture

For my next impression, Josephine Owens!

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

Gender/Propaganda/visual culture

Women and jewlery

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is a great picture of Madame Chiang Kai-shek via Getty it’s an interesting picture,  at least for me, since it ties in with a couple of interesting t...

Aviation/Gender/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Oriental Women

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the “First Chinese civilian aviator.” In her various tours of No...

Books/Gender/Literature/Translation

Zhuangzi’s brain

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Wilt Idema The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun.  The book is a translation of various versions of the story of Zhuangzi and th...

China/Classics/English/Gender/Qin-Han/Teaching

Exemplary Women

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A new translation of the Lienu zhuan is out, under the title Exemplary Women of Early China The book was compiled by Liu Xiang, mostly from older sources, so it...

China/English/Gender

Manchu underwear

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, I was reading the 1911 edition of Encyclopedia Britannica, specifically the entry on China. For those of you who don’t know it, the 1911 edition is co...

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