Asian History Carnival #4
It’s up now at Miscellany. It’s been slightly updated since I first put it up, Konrad sent me a few extra pieces.
Category: General
World Congress
Antti has already got there first and flagged this up at his site, but for those people not on the Korean Studies list or regular Hunjang visitors, the Academy ...
Petition to reinstate expelled Korea University students
Dear colleagues, What follows below is a petition for the annulment of the severe punishment meted out by the Korea University (KoryO taehakkyo) authorities to ...
Japan's war guilt
As is being discussed elsewhere, the Dower exhibit on Visualizing Cultures has become controversial, as it contains images that some people find offensive, spec...
China-Japan Historical Struggle Reaches MIT
History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. — Maya Angelou, Inaugural Poem I had planned t...
Asian History Carnival
I’ll be hosting the next edition of the Asian History Carnival over at my site Miscellany on Friday 5th May. Please get any suggestions to me before then ...
Imperial Self-Images
This is a picture of the Empress Dowager Cixi She is shown in the guise of Guanyin attended by two of her eunuchs in the guise of bodhisattvas. 1 According to P...
Introduction
Greetings, and thanks to Konrad for inviting me to join. I’m a historian of Japan. I received my Ph.D. in 2001 and now teach in the Asian Studies departme...
Read the Bones
Forensic anthropologists who got a look at the earliest known human remains found in North America think he looks Ainu rather than Native American. Some Ainu’s ...
Local democracy in China (Special finals week edition)
On his recent trip to Washington Hu Jintao was asked about democracy in China. To the surprise of some observers he did not immediately grow horns and start eat...
Moral Panic
Tim Burke has been blogging on moral panics in the context of oral sex, rape, and children’s television. Reading his stuff I was struck by the most famous...
Chasing Emperors
My wife found this pin in her collection, and has no recollection of how we got it. I did a little digging and found that the “Civil Air Patrol” was...
Oracle Bones
In Peter Hessler’s Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present* I found the story of Xu Chaolong.(p.194) I found it interesting because of what it ...
Menzies Continued
It has been suggested to me that it may be a good time to begin a new discussion of the original Menzies topic, which was first posted in January and has now ga...