The Wall Is Great!
One of these days we’re all going to get tired of Great Wall metaphors for China…. I hope. For now, it’s being over-visited by tourists and st...
Category: General
Grading Finished; Blogging Resumes
She really has no conviction to her writing. It seemed merely argumentative and she was just trying to prove her points through facts. That’s alright to m...
Naughty or Nice?
As it is time to think about the good or bad behavior of children, I have been wondering why so many Chinese sage-kings had rotten kids. Lewis points out that o...
“Anti-americanism” – an important law of thumb
I guess it is not only my experience – looking upon the past and getting oneself surprised about “how could I say/do this?” 15 years ago, when...
“D-Mat” and the whole “blood type/temperament” thing…
Wondering if anyone else on FIAW has seen this article by David Picker in the NYT about Matsuzaka Daisuke’s blood type… I don’t think Picker h...
Announcement: East Asian Libraries and Archives Wiki
The Frog in a Well project is expanding. While we hope our three bilingual collaborative weblogs dedicated to the study of East Asian history will continue to d...
AHC #10 is up
Gracchi at Westminster Wisdom has put together a fantastic 10th AHC. The material ranges from the Russian Near East to Japan, Mongolia to India, and closes out ...
Pearl Harbor and the longue duree
In honor of the 65th anniversary, HNN has a Pearl Harbor extravaganza this week. There’s a little recap, and the obligatory zombie error smackdown, which ...
Photos of Japan, 1951
One of my former students and her boyfriend have been scanning in old photos, and they happened upon some gems taken by the young man’s grandfather when h...
Love and Inspiration
My aunt, Alice Schlossberg, passed away on Sunday. She was the first Asianist and history teacher in my family, and I will miss her terribly. Perhaps my first r...
Chairman Mao’s teacher
A nice article in Modern China on Mao’s teacher Yang Changji. The article draws on Yeh Wen-Hsin’s work on the provincial background of many of the second group ...
Keeping Halal in the Ming dynasty
As regular readers know, I am interested in the question of how people are defined as Chinese. One nice bit of data comes from Hans Kuhner. He is looking at a p...
Cinderella, dressed in yellow, went to Scotland and kissed a fellow
Via Cliopatria, a website with Scottish broadsides from 1810-1830. One is obviously satirical, announcing the arrival of a Chinese doctor Dr. Puff Stuff Sham Qu...