A Break With Tradition
I’m going to break with Frog In A Well tradition this once, and comment here on something that has almost nothing to do with Asian history. I could easily...
Category: General
Fuji Kawashima, 1938-2006
The Korean Studies mailing list has been full of people’s recollections of the the Koreanist Fuji Kawashima of Bowling Green State University, who died re...
Asian History Carnival #3 Is Up
over on the China side
Asian History Carnival #3 Is Up
over on the China side
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Asian History Carnival #3
Welcome to the third Asian History Carnival! It’s traditional for blog carnivals to have some kind of internal organization…. Heh.
Hightower Obituary
If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Asian History Carnival Coming Soon!
I will be hosting the third edition of the Asian History Carnival on Sunday, March 5. Deadline for nominations of posts — anything about Asian history wri...
Meetings, On and Off Line
This just came across the H-Japan list: From: Kristin Lehner The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is happy to announce that ou...
I won't cry for the wasted years
Reading Mote’s Imperial China 900-1800 I came across an interesting quote (p.45) On the (rather irregular) death of Emperor Zhuangzong of the Later Tang i...
Pruning hooks into spears
K.C. Johnson calls our attention to a post by which discusses the state of military history. K.C. is mostly interested in getting military historians the repres...
Who Owns Koguryo Now?
Yonson Ahn’s article in the latest Japan Focus tracks the historiography of the Korean/Manchurian Koguryo state up to the present “textbook wars....
World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?
My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...
Graduate Conference at Columbia
I participated in the East Asia Graduate Students conference at the weekend, and it was great to meet so many people working in the field, especially those with...