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Asian History Carnival 21
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Asian History Carnival #21 is up
Tang Dynasty Times has the latest — and a great collection it is, too — and promises to have a second edition in a month!
Coming Soon: 21st Asian History Carnival
The first of two parts of the 21st Asian History Carnival will be coming soon on August 23rd to the Tang Dynasty Times! Read more and submit your nominations fo...
The Sideshow in Korea?
Yet the costly Iraq war must also be recognised as a sideshow in the Bush global counteroffensive against Islamist militancy, just as the far more costly Korean...
South Korea As Seen from Singapore: The “Korea Boom,” “Korea” Mobilized~
I can’t resist adding this, my admittedly very superficial observations based on slightly more than two months of residence in Singapore: South Korea...
Introduction
Hi, I’m new to the blog, and just wanted to introduce myself. I just completed a Ph. D. in the History of Science (2007) on the formation of “state...
I hate this time of year
I still hate this time of year. Though the post and comments are of generally high quality, and the introduction of actual Japanese scholars and sources into th...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Asian History Carnival #20
The Asian History Carnival #20 is now up at Jottings from the Granite Studio! It comes in three parts: Asian History Carnival #20 Part I Asian History Carnival ...
Taiwan 1946: Asking, “What is Democracy?” – in Japanese
I’m sitting in the Taiwanese National Library here in Taipei and just finished looking through an unusual publication put out in December, 1946 by 臺灣新生報社,...
End of Semester Bits-n-pieces
You grade sixty tests, and what do you get? Three months older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don’t you call me, cause I can’t go! I owe book orders ...
Archival Incidents, or What is it with Pictures?
Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as “newly discovered” photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. ...
Wonders of Modern Life
I’m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, ｼﾞｬﾊﾟﾆｰｽﾞﾃﾞｲｱｽﾎﾟﾗ, 足立伸子 （編著), including my article ...
How do you say “Fast of the First Born” in Japanese?
I was thinking about whether to even attempt a contribution to the latest symposium on the role of historical animosities — and their appeasement — ...