Eloquent oddities
There aren’t a lot of good Japanese-themed quizzes out there…. You Are a Sarariiman! Or “salaryman.” Whatever. Treadmill off, treadmill ...
Category: General
Finding historical riches
A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...
A Guokui for the contemporary masses
I was checking through CDT the other day (as I do when I’m in the mood to circumvent certain walls that surround my current location) and came across the ...
When is historical information not informative?
Taemin at Sanch’on hunjang does an excellent job of taking apart the English information sign for a Chosŏn government official’s tomb in Seoul. The ...
The good life
I came across this story while reading the Liaozhai 聊斋 The Loyal Mouse According to Yang Tianyi, once he saw two mice coming out of a hole. One was swallowed by...
Self-introduction: Scott Relyea 李皓同
Hi everyone at 井底之蛙, First of all, I’d like to thank Konrad for the invitation to join the Frog in a Well community. I’m happy to become part of wha...
English Translations of Korean Literature
Brother Anthony is hosting a list of Korean Literature in English translation. You can find it at this site: Korean Literature in English Translation Before 200...
Yellow Peril
I’ve been re-reading some Jack London stories of late, and being struck by the Chinese in them. There are actually a lot of Chinese, as the areas he tended to w...
Patriotic School Athletics – under the Japanese and After
To observe that modern “physical culture” (athletics) training in the compulsory schooling system is something closely linked to the conscription sy...
Voice of the people
One nice thing about Chinese history is that there is a long history of recording popular songs. From the Han at least it was assumed that popular songs reflect...
We’re not in Hebei anymore, Toto
A Chinese Peasant Pearl Buck has been getting a good deal more attention in China of late. Part of it is no doubt the fact that she wrote about China and won th...
전시소개: 잊혀진 제국/헤르만 산더의 여행
안녕하세요? 갑작스런 비에 다들 무사하신지… 이번에는 한국어로 포스팅하겠습니다. 다들 한국어 실력이 워낙 출중하신지라 걱정은 되지 않습니다만. 지금 서울에서는 재미있는 사진전들이 개최되고 있습니다. 간략히 소개하자면 1. 잊혀진 제국: 서울대학교 박물관 2. 헤르만 산더의 여...
Gyewon Kim: Self-Introduction
To begin with, I’m very pleased to be involved in this weblog. Thanks, 미치 (K. M. Lawson)! My name is Gyewon Kim. I’m doing my PhD in art history in McGill Unive...
Tibet by rail
It has been in the news of late that China has built a rail line to Tibet. It cost $3.2 billion, and the train cars have to be pressurized, but you can now get ...
Creating East Asia
东亚三国的近现代史 A History of Modern and Contemporary East Asia is a book that got a lot of press when it first came out, since it was written by a team of scholars fr...