(A Little) Chinese History at ASPAC
There was, I’ll admit, a lot of Chinese content at ASPAC which I didn’t see. Such is life. I did see two papers which I want to discuss here briefly...
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Vagaries of Honolulu
One of the things I always look forward to when I go to Honlulu is visiting the Okonomiyaki restaurant in the International Marketplace — there just aren&...
Taiwan gained and lost
Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...
Upcoming: ASPAC Blogging
Later this week I’m going to be going over to Honolulu for ASPAC 2007, the Pacific Region Asian Studies conference. The program is here: I’ll be pre...
Japan in the Hall of Asian Peoples
Over at my own blog Muninn I have posted an entry talking a bit about the portray of Japan and Korea in the “Hall of Asian Peoples” in New York̵...
Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea
this via: White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush would like to see a U.S. role in Iraq ultimately similar to that in South Korea. “The Korean model is ...
Reflecting on a semester
We’ve been talking about our syllabi for a while here at the Frogs, but we haven’t done a lot of post-semester commentary. I had two Asia courses th...
Married couples
2 married couples, from China Digital Times As both Mother’s Day and her birthday are coming up, I thought I would post something romantic for my wife. GT...
RG242: Foreigners in North Korea
There are all sorts of interesting materials in the National Archives collection of Captured North Korean Documents in record group 242 that I introduced in an ...
Unity is Almost Always a Myth
In an otherwise interesting discussion of North Korean defector readjustment and North-South relations in the Washington Post, Samuel Songhoon Lee drops this In...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Origami Revolution
I can’t recommend highly enough Susan Orleans’ profile of Origamist Robert Lang, in which she describes not only his groundbreaking technical and ar...
Gavin Menzies, Historian
A few weeks ago I received a flyer from a publisher who shall remain nameless. They are soliciting people to write pro and con essays on various historical cont...
The course we all have to teach
Alan Baumler, my colleague from next door has sent along this “call to arms” As some of our regular readers may remember, there is a Frog tradition ...