Frog in a Well nominated for best Asian group blog
Cool. Asia Blog Awards has nominated Frog in a Well for Best Asian Group Blog in a new edition run by AsiaPundit. Vote here!
Category: General
Frederic Wakeman, 1937-2006
Obituary here We used his Fall of Imperial China as a text when I was an undergrad, and The Great Enterprise was one of the first things I read in grad school. ...
Arrrrgh, Jun lad,
Today is international talk like a pirate day, which was created to prove that the internet does not always have to be a place of serious scholarship and high-m...
Acting quickly, he formed a committee to study the issue
Via Crooked Timber, an adaptation of Little Sisters of the Grasslands that will appeal to anyone who likes Maoist kitsh, or who works in an American university,...
“Resistant collaborators” and “collaborative resisters”
I am in a small room on Kyushu University’s campus now trying to finalize the second volume of my Russian textbook on Korea’s history, and while plo...
나의 리움미술관 기행기
나의 리움미술관 기행기 명색이 미술사학도이지만, 솔직히 말해 미술관 기행이 별 재미가 없다. 유명한 작가의 작품은 거기에 켜켜이 쌓여있는 아우라의 무게에 짓눌려 재미가 없다. 유명하지 않은 작가의 작품은 오랫동안 제도 밖에 머물어 가난하고 빈곤하다. 그렇게 “제도”의 힘은 강력하다. 특...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
That 9.11 Incident
Of course I remember 9/11/01. You don’t forget the day when you think you’re watching a rerun of a terrible accident — how quickly they got fo...
Elvis is everywhere
A nice little picture from Shenbao, one of Shanghai’s most important early 20th century newspapers. The caption complains about Chinese women. Specifically it p...
The Shanghai Taxicab test
Go look at this. Not much to say, other than that it seems to confirm that the Chinese are starting to catch up to the South Koreans in becoming video game fana...
Self-intro: M.G. Sheftall
Mina san, konnichiwa. My name is M.G. Sheftall. I’m an ex-pat NY’er (attended and Stuyvesant High School and Fordham University there) living in Jap...