Boundaries within Asia
Interesting article on the problem understanding Central Asia: the first problem is that nobody agrees on what or where it is. Apparently, East Asianists —...
Category: General
The Chairman vanishes (but is found again!)
One of the nice things about teaching modern China is that the Communists, as a text-centered party, wrote a lot of things. A lot of them have been translated i...
Asian History Carnival #1
Welcome to the first Asian History Carnival! The deadline for submissions was 10/10, which just happened, this year, to fall on the holiday of Columbus Day (obs...
Windschuttle on Mao
I am feeling very remiss for not having posted since Konrad gave me a log-in. I am a PhD student at Cambridge looking at China and Southeast Asia. My dissertati...
Act Now! Don't Delay!
Send me [dresner at hawaii dot edu] your nominations of your best Asian history blogging in time for tomorrow’s Inaugural Asian History Carnival! Remember...
Enryo shinaide….
Last call: The inaugural Carnival of Asian History Blogging will go up tomorrow! Send me [dresner at hawaii dot edu] your best, your friends’ best, your b...
The modern Confucius
An advertisement from the 20’s or 30’s, reprinted in上海广告. 上海：上海画报出版社, 1995. This ad is for Golden Arrow cigarettes, and it announces a special contest. If you c...
Happy Birthday China! Happy Birthday Freedom!
According to People’s Daily English Edition China has turned 5,056 years old today. 5,000 years of timeless Chinese civilization, plus 56 years of New China. Al...
Yuan Shikai, Daoist
Another neat thing from Tales of Old China. They have a whole section of French Images, which mostly seem to be postcards and newspaper clippings from somewhere...
Asian History Carnival
亜史祭 The Historical Blogosphere has a Carnival, an Early Modern and Ancient/Medieval carnival, even a Bad History carnival, but it doesn’t yet have a regio...
China is dirty
Many of our countless readers already know this resource, but one of the things I like to read and teach with is Tales of Old China, a website put up by SinoMed...
Tokugawa Hidetada
Slightly embarrasing to admit though since my own research is in the sengoku era but I have started to wonder about one thing and anyone might have heard the re...
Poem of Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Last time I was in Japan I went through a lot of bookshelves looking for relevant litterature for my research. At the library of Gifu university they have a lot...
Hitler Watch: Koizumi
Is Koizuimi Junichiro another Hitler? One former LDP’er thinks so, and Chinese academician Feng Zhaokui agrees [via]: Feng’s Fear History They both ...
What is a family?
Via Reason’s Hit and Run I find this story about a Taiwanese women who wanted to harvest the sperm of her recently deceased fiancée so that she could get pregna...