History ‘faction’
According to the Hankyoreh, historical novels are all the rage at the moment in Korea. This doesn’t really surprise me all that much as historical novels ...
Category: Historiography
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...
Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan/War/昭和
What’s New?
The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Center for Japanese Studies has a new collection of Occupation-era photographs. I’m struck by two things in parti...
More geographical coolness
Konrad’s post on the GIS dataset below is well worth looking at, as this is a very cool dataset.
Where's my check?
A lot of discussion of who China scholars in the U.S. -really- work for. (Hint, it’s not Cleo) One thread of the discussion, from Far Eastern Economic Rev...
Samurai Baseball: Off Base or Safe at Home?
[A version of this piece was published on Japan Focus (April 4, 2007)] Baseball fans, lovers of a good fight, and those who are curious about how we go about un...
Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books and Articles/Colonial/Historiography/Koguryo/Korea/Korea-China/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea/World
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...
Archaeology/Blog Carnival/China-Japan/Cultural/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Korea-Japan/Occupation/US-Japan/War/Web Sites/昭和
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...
Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources
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...
When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant
After Mao Zedong died in 1976, they put his body on display in one of those see-through coffins which Lenin made popular. Shortly after, the NBC evening news co...
Boston and the Bamboo Grove
I must admit that I’ve not felt at all keen on bringing up here the most recent Korea-related history controversy to hit the news. As many readers are pro...
Is there such a thing as an innocent nation?
Moving away from the news reports for the moment, something a bit more speculative. The above question is one that crops up in my mind every now and then when I...
Bad History: Mongols good, US bad?
Jack Weatherford’s piece reprinted in the latest edition of (the increasingly inaptly named) Japan Focus argues that the US occupation of Iraq is a failur...
Orthodoxy, or more revisionism? (History news round up II)
Time for part two of my history news round up. Another big history-related story toward the end of last year concerned a proposed new rightwing history textbook...
5,000 years
One of those phrases that anyone dealing with Korean history must learn to live with is the ‘5,000 years’ business. Today I came across one of the m...