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Category: Historical analogies

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...

Christianity/Frog in A Well/Historical analogies/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Religion/Textbooks

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...

Books and Articles/English/General/Historical analogies/Korea/Korea-China/Korean War/US-Korea/World

The Sideshow in Korea?

Posted on August 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

English/General/Historical analogies/Korea/Korean War/US-Korea

Korea: Better than Vietnam, anyway

Posted on January 13, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

Thomas C. Reeves, perhaps my least favorite HNN blogger, is arguing that the success of South Korea justifies our Middle East policies, especially Iraq. The com...

Blogs and Carnivals/Historical analogies/Historiography/Korea

Asian History Carnival #15

Posted on June 25, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Welcome to the Fifteenth edition of the Asian History Carnival! The picture is of the beautiful pavilion at the Center for Korean Studies at UH-Manoa, where ASP...

Contemporary/English/General/Historical analogies/Korea/Korean War/US-Korea

Analogy Alert: Iraq/Korea

Posted on May 31, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

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 ...

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