Overreading Erotica
There’s a lot of presentist fallacies and overdrawn conclusions — just because a society has a reputation for sexual restraint doesn’t mean th...
Category: General
Data: Personal v. Historical
A recent initiative in the US to limit access to birth and death records [via] along with other personal data would severely limit the ability of historical and...
Wartime Media
Brett at Airminded notes the Japanese National Archives war poster collection including detailed poison gas attack instructions and anti-fire civil defense. The...
AHC #3 Coming Soon!
The third edition of the Asian History Carnival will be on March 3rd (3/3), but we still don’t have a volunteer for host! So, if you’re an Asian His...
AHC #3 Coming Soon!
The third edition of the Asian History Carnival will be on March 3rd (3/3), but we still don’t have a volunteer for host! So, if you’re an Asian His...
AHC #3 Coming Soon!
The third edition of the Asian History Carnival will be on March 3rd (3/3), but we still don’t have a volunteer for host! So, if you’re an Asian His...
CFP: Graduate Students’ Convention in Prague
I expect a lot of people will have seen this call for papers from Charles University in Prague already, but I’m reproducing it here in case you haven̵...
AHA Panel Proposal
Hello everyone I am trying to put together a panel for the AHA next year. I am interested in the construction of modern womanhood in early 20th century culture ...
Nomads and China
As the final installment in our exciting series of syllabus posts I present my last class for the semester, Nomadic Empires and China It is a topics class, so i...
Taiwanese Heroin
It has been rainy rather than snowy around here of late, which is very unusual for this time of year. While walking in a cold wet rain I began to try and think ...
Asia on the move
As we have been posting syllabi and asking for comments I thought I would do something radical and post one for a class that I will not be teaching until next F...
History, or politics by other means
I would like to share my musings and solicit opinions on one issue I always was interested in – namely, to what degree the ways in which states attempt to...
Self Introduction: Jiyul Kim
I want to thank Kirk for his invitation to join this award winning site. To begin with, I am a soldier in the US Army, a Colonel, and currently a professor in t...
Thoughts on Yusin
Readers here might be interested in giving thoughts about a query and my comment regarding Yusin on the Korean Studies Discussion List by Dr. Alon Levkowitz. Hi...
Notes from the Chinese Underworld
I appear to have been guilty of smuggling, or at least receiving contraband goods. Probably the Triads or somebody like that was involved as well. Too cool. Whi...