Revisionism (History news round up I)
It’s been a bit quiet around here lately, but hopefully that will improve with the new year. To kick things off this year I thought I’d gather toget...
Category: Historiography
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...
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 ...
The History of Sino-Japanese Relations as seen in Japan's Most Popular Travel Guide
The Globe-trotter Travel Guidebook, which is the official English name for 地球の歩き方 (Lit: The way to wander the world) is the most popular Japanese travel guide s...
Empty history
I’m spending a few weeks in Korea, mainly for the Academy of Korean Studies organised World Congress of Korean Studies that will be taking place this week...
Military history MIA? WIA? KIA?
There has been a good deal of discussion on Cliopatria and elsewhere on the topic of military history. This discussion was sparked off by a piece in the Nationa...
Frederic Wakeman, 1937-2006
Obituary here We used his Fall of Imperial China as a text when I was an undergrad, and The Great Enterprise was one of the first things I read in grad school. ...
AHC Call for Posts, plus
Roy Berman, the MutantFrog himself, will host the next Asian History Carnival at Mutant Frog Travelogue on the 18th. Get your nominations in to him directly (ro...
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History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
Sharing Syllabi: Japanese Women
I saw the immortals overlooking the volleyball court on our recent visit to the Kona side of the island, and felt an affinity. The Waikoloa Hilton is like that....
James B. Palais (1934-2006)
I was very saddened to hear that Professor James Palais has died. Everyone in the world of Korean history will have heard of him and anyone who has read any of ...
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Chinese in Motion
Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...
Japanese War Related Survey and its Results
Sasaki Kei, one of our contributors at the Japanese history blog here at Frog in a Well pointed out some results of a survey recently released in the Japanese p...
Creating East Asia
东亚三国的近现代史 A History of Modern and Contemporary East Asia is a book that got a lot of press when it first came out, since it was written by a team of scholars fr...
Carnival of Bad History #6
Welcome to the Sixth Edition of the Carnival of Bad History! I’m going to start with that most excellent material — that which is found and nominate...