Henny Savenije’s Korea Website
I’ll continue posting on Western perceptions of Korea here at Frog in a Well throughout the week. I have at least seven parts planned for it. In the meant...
Category: General
Last night I saw upon the stair a little man who was not there
Elvin’s The Retreat of the Elephants has a section on dragons. Specifically, why reliable, skeptical observers like Xie Zhaozhe, who published his Fivefold Misc...
Self-Introduction: Owen Miller
Greetings. I’m a PhD student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. I am approaching the end of my PhD, or at least the beginning of ...
Self-Introduction: Remco Breuker
My name is Remco Breuker. I am very excited to be part of this new weblog on Korean history. I am finishing up a Ph.D. on medieval Korean history, more specific...
Self-Introduction-McVeigh
I’d like to introduce myself. I teach in the East Asian Studies Department at the University of Arizona and specialize in Japan. I lived in Japan from 198...
Searching Google Print for Old Books on Korea
Google print, which is scanning thousands of books in major research libraries, is useful when you want to scan across many English language books for terms. It...
Self-Introduction: Jonathan Dresner
I’m very grateful to Konrad for including me in this project. I’ve really enjoyed blogging in the Japan and China Frogs and I’m looking forwar...
Self-Introduction: K. M. Lawson
My name is Konrad Mitchell Lawson. I am in my second year of a PhD in history. My research interests relate to treason, traitors, and the aftermath of war in mo...
“The Apprentice”
I recently learned [29 October 2005 show, round 3] that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, recently indicted for his role in, at the very least, the coverup ...
Frog In the Well Index, Logo, and Buttons
I have uploaded a new index page for us here at Frog in a Well. It displays our new Frog in a Well logo, based on a painting by Joseph Y. Lo, who has kindly giv...
Women hold up half of heaven
I recently got a postcard asking me to assign a pamphlet “Li Fengjin: How the New Marriage Law Helped Chinese Women Stand Up” translated by Susan Glosser and pu...
Gresham’s Law
The Great Yuan—how grave and dignified, Its authority by the crafty and duplicitous monopolized. ‘Repairing’ the Yellow River dikes [1351], ‘reforming’ th...
My Tradition’s Bigger Than Your Tradition
In an argument about Japanese-American draft-resistor internees during WWII, Eric Muller wrote in my book I argue that vocal and visible protest of government o...