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Category: Historiography

Academia/Anecdotes/Historiography

Jonathan Spence has ascended to heaven on a dragon

Posted on December 29, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Well, actually, that is how the death of the emperor was announced in the 1987 Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor, which came out just as I was starting ...

Books/Diaspora/Historiography/India/International Affairs/Revolution

Can a historian malign a ruling race?

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A book I have been reading for fun this summer is Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. It is a history of the various ...

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...

Historiography/Humor/Pedagogy

Grand Centennial Best Opening Vignette Contest!

Posted on January 30, 2019 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Jonathan’s “On the Opening Vignette” is so fresh and smart that the only response is to turn it into a contest: who can write the best opening...

Books/Gender/Historiography

Women Warriors in Japanese History? Yes, but…

Posted on October 4, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The subtitle to this article tells you most of what you need to know: Christobel Hasting, “How Onna-Bugeisha, Feudal Japan’s Women Samurai, Were Era...

Academia/Historiography/Pedagogy/Textbooks/Theory

Why Read Wineburg?

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Like a lot of people, I got my copy of Sam Wineburg’s new book Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) [University of Chicago Press, 201...

Choson/Foreign Views/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/安土桃山

Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender and Yi Soon Shin: Fallen Avenger: Bad

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

At Planet Comicon in Kansas City last month, I came across a gentleman selling a comic book series based on the Hideyoshi invasions of Korea, known in Korea as ...

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...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

China/Historiography/Yuan

An update on the Marco Polo problem

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I said when I introduced the History Carnival that I’d been doing a lot of private blogging in the form of online course materials, and I really should sh...

Articles/Authors/Books/China/China-U.S./Christianity/East vs West/Foreign Views/Frog in A Well/Historiography

China from “Over There” to “Back Then”: A Second Helping on E.A. Ross

Posted on November 3, 2016 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Alan Baumler’s juicy February 19 post “Edward Alsworth Ross and The Good Old Days of Scholarship,” inspired me to look back through my notes.1...

Historiography/visual culture

Visual Digital History

Posted on May 25, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Laura Putnam has an article out in the new issue of AHR “The Transnational and the Text-Searchable: Digitized Sources and the Shadows They Cast“ One...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Books/Historiography/visual culture

Understanding China-The interview

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Stone Bridge Press is bringing out a deluxe edition of Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics, which I have been reviewing here and enjoying very m...

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