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Economics/globalization/Historical analogies/Historiography

Was Late Imperial China Early Modern?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Zou Jiajun posted on the Sinologists Facebook group asking how the term “Early Modern” got to be used in China studies. This is a an interesting question, since...

Asian American/Diaspora/Ethnic Minorities/globalization/Historiography/Imperialism/India/Nationalism

Diaspora experience as a function of modernity, imperialism, and nationalism.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From my online course on Asia-US migration, an upcoming discussion: The second half of [Vinay] Lal’s book [The Other Indians: A Political And Cultural His...

1980s/globalization/India/Nationalism/World

The Right Turn

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Basharat Peer interview with Pankaj Mishra on China and India is worth reading, and not that long, but I was particularly struck by this bit towards the end: &#...

Academia/Diaspora/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism

Moving Migration Into History

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Via Aaron Bady, I saw a wonderful article by Imke Sturm-Martin about the challenges of integrating migration history into the mainstream of European historical ...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Food/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/Memory/Nationalism

Credentialism and Other Modern Traditions

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Japan Times article on Japan’s application to UNESCO to have 和食 [washoku, Japanese cuisine] declared an internationally recognized “intangible c...

Academia/Books and Articles/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/昭和

Feeling Like an Empire: Colonial Radicalization

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

What makes Louise Young’s Japan’s Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism such a fascinating, troubling work is that she deta...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/US-Japan/安土桃山/江戸

Young Samurai: Way of the Dragon and the Battle of Osaka

Posted on May 29, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The third installment of Chris Bradford’s Young Samurai series shifts modes mid-book, when the action moves from the original Harry Potter-esque bildungsr...

Academia/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Pedagogy

Syllabus Blogging: Modern Japan and World History

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s been a while since I did some syllabus blogging, but the most interesting course I was going to teach last semester didn’t come through,1 so it...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading The Way of the Sword while listening to the “Restoring Honor” event, I began to wonder if our current shift to discourses of honor and warri...

Academia/bibliography/Current/Recent Events/Economic/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Nationalism/Pedagogy/Teaching

Adjusting to the new narrative

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My China-side colleague, Alan Baumler, noted that China seems to have supplanted Japan as the go-to model for economic development. This has, he says, required ...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/globalization/International Affairs/Japan/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Political/Politics/平成/昭和

ASPAC Blogging: Japan’s Political Present and Future

Posted on July 16, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

My copanelists on Saturday were political scientists, and it was a good update for me on what what’s going on with Japan in the last ten years or so. R...

Academia/General/globalization/Japan/Religion

Conference Blogging: ASPAC 2009 at Soka University

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

ASPAC was at Soka University of America this year. It’s in the hills above Laguna Beach, just down the road from Irvine, on the edge of a nature reserve. ...

English/Foreign Views/General/globalization/Japan/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/US-Japan/昭和

Before the miniseries, there was….

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not sure when my family got this game, but I remember playing with it in the late 70s. Though Shogun is described as a “digital” game, the...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/Gender/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

I almost didn’t check Chris Bradford‘s Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior out of the library when I saw it, but some instinct told me that it was...

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