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General/Korea

A Chinese Warlord’s Predictions for the Korean War

Posted on July 4, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Yan Xishan, former warlord of Shanxi province and briefly premier of the Chinese republic wrote a book, Peace or World War, that was published in its English tr...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Conferences/English/General/Japan

Blogging and Events

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I am in Portland, at ASPAC 2010, and having my usual conference fun. It’s a pretty full schedule, so I’m not going to try to blog during, but I̵...

Colonial/Cultural/Gender/General/Korea/Korean

Thinking about the Japanese woman in Korean-Japanese (内鮮一体) couples

Posted on June 13, 2010 by sayaka / 5 Comments

When I was preparing for my oral exams last semester, the professors who do not work on East Asia (I had a European historian and a Latin American historian in ...

General/Korea

Guides at Frog in a Well

Posted on April 12, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...

Books and Articles/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/General/Japan/photography

AAS Love – Self Promotion Edition

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s a good week for me and the Association for Asian Studies. I just got my Journal of Asian Studies in the mail. Not only did I get the journal, but

1945-1950/1960s/Contemporary/Economic/General/Korea-Japan/Science / Technology/US-Korea

Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic

Posted on February 15, 2010 by John P. DiMoia / 7 Comments

I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...

General/Korea/Korea-Japan/Military

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 1 of many

Posted on February 2, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

Now that I’m teaching my Korean History course I am, of course, running into questions I cannot answer. I’m going to post them here periodically: Th...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Science and Technology

History Carnival #84: After the Tweeting is Done

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I’m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I’ve spent...

General/Japan/Politics

Recipe for a New Japan? A Dash of Venus

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

The recent victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) in the Lower House, just two years after its surprise victory in the Upper House, is only slightly les...

Academia/Books and Articles/Foreign Views/General/Historiography/Japan/War/明治

World War Wannabee: Russo-Japanese War?

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Brett Holman notes a new contender in the “really First World War” sweepstakes — the Seven Years War and Napoleonic Wars being leading early c...

Current/Recent Events/General/Japan/Political/Politics/平成

Soft and Fuzzy Historic Events

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Last time I lived in Japan, the LDP lost control of the Diet, and for a year and a half there was a Socialist Prime Minister in charge of an implausible coaliti...

Academia/bibliography/General/Historiography/Korea/Textbooks/Web Sites

Once more, dear friends, into the breach….

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

In my first post here I said that I was going to be teaching a Korean history course for the first time: I lied. Or rather, I was scheduled to teach it, but the...

1945-1950/Colonial/General/Korea-Japan/US-Korea

Electricity, Infrastucture: “Reconstruction”

Posted on August 24, 2009 by John P. DiMoia / 0 Comment

This image comes from a USIS publcity shot taken at Masan in the mid-  1950’s, detailing the work of electrical restoration undertaken prior to,  during, ...

Academia/bibliography/Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Teaching

Adjusting to the new narrative

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My China-side colleague, Alan Baumler, noted that China seems to have supplanted Japan as the go-to model for economic development. This has, he says, required ...

General/Korea

Reflecting on “Giants”

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Todd Crowell reports that Kim Dae Jung is seriously ill and reflects on his life and career as a “Giant of [Asian] Democracy” For Kim achieving the ...

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