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China/Education/General/Post-Mao/Teaching

Braudel in Shanghai

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There has been a good deal of comment on Chinese history textbook revisions of late. Mao is gone! For foreigners who can only name one Chinese historical figure...

China/Class/General/Labor/Post-Mao

Why is China so clean?

Posted on September 2, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A long time ago I realized the street litter in poor countries is different than that in rich ones. In part this is because the poor countries seem to hire more...

Archaeology/China/General/Nationalism

Shine on you crazy diamond

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Have you been to the British Museum? One of the best museums in the world, largely because it contains the loot of empire, stuff the Brits brought back from all...

Academia/Archaeology/Art/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/English/Gender/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Teaching

History Carnival #38

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...

China/General

Sharing syllabi

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As is becoming a timeless tradition here at Frog in a Well, I am posting my syllabi for comment and suggestions. Not much China stuff this semester. I am stuck ...

Archaeology/China/China-Japan/English/General

Miscellany

Posted on August 27, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via HNN It’s a 270-year old antique building! It’s a brothel! Monument or Disgrace? Neolithic astronomy: Big Dipper in ancient stone. Paper Producti...

China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/General/Japan

Miscellany

Posted on August 27, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Heard on a Prairie Home Companion Joke Show: A couple goes to the theater, and afterwards the woman turns to the man and says “I don’t get Japanese ...

Academia/English/Gender/General/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Sharing Syllabi: Japanese Women

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I saw the immortals overlooking the volleyball court on our recent visit to the Kona side of the island, and felt an affinity. The Waikoloa Hilton is like that....

General/Japan

In Memorium: Edward Beauchamp

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From the UH News: Professor Emeritus Edward Beauchamp died Aug. 8 at the age of 72. Beauchamp joined the College of Education in 1969 and was a valued faculty m...

China/General/Imperialism/Sino-Japanese Wars

Virtual nationalism

Posted on August 24, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via ESNW I found this interesting post about anti-japanese attitudes in Chinese virtual worlds. http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/08/national_politics_within_vir...

China/Chinese/General/Language/Post-Mao

他媽的

Posted on August 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

I caught a couple of episodes of Firefly on TV a bit back. The thing that hooked me was that some of the characters were swearing in Chinese, of a sort. The ser...

Academia/China-Japan/Cultural/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/War

Defining Japaneseness: a miscellany

Posted on August 14, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This report (with followups here) suggests that Japan is no longer a “classless society” but I wonder to what extent the concept of class simply to ...

Books/China/English/General/Web Sites and Resources

Used books online in China

Posted on August 9, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 5 Comments

The book markets and used bookstores of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and pretty much everywhere in between; their dusty piles of colourful, frayed cultural revol...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Identity/Nationalism/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Chinese in Motion

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 13 Comments

Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...