Forty Years Ago
The New York Times has a short interview with two women who played pivotal roles in the Cultural revolution NIE YUANZI was an ambitious college professor whose ...
Category: Historiography
A simple Miscellany
Ralph Luker‘s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of 1421 by Bill Poser and friends (in two parts; note: Is Menzies just making up words in ...
Long March Revision: Diminishing Sources
Christian Science Monitor has a substantial article about Sun Shuyan’s new book Long March (previously noted here), leadng this time with the book’s...
Satire, self-parody and court jesters
I was looking for a good way to announce my new position as a member of the Carnival of Bad History team, when Geoff Wade sent this to H-Asia, and Prof. Goodman...
Bashing Mao Bashing
My one regret, really, of not going to the AAS this year, was that I could not go to the 20th Century China Forum round table on Chang and Halliday’s Mao:...
Chasing Emperors
My wife found this pin in her collection, and has no recollection of how we got it. I did a little digging and found that the “Civil Air Patrol” was...
Duelling histories? part 3
I thought I would revive this title once more and add another post to the series on recent historiographical clashes in South Korea since I recently came across...
Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories
Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...
Women on the Long March
Natalie Bennett reports that a new oral history investigation of the Long March experience is being published. Over 10 months, travelling mainly by bus and trai...
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Asian History Carnival #3
Welcome to the third Asian History Carnival! It’s traditional for blog carnivals to have some kind of internal organization…. Heh.
Duelling histories? Part 2
Continuing on the subject of the new, controversial history book 해방 전후사의 재인식 (‘A new understanding of Korea’s liberation’), I wanted to link to this rather help...
Duelling histories? Part 1
Another couple of history-related articles from the English-language Korean media that were brought to my attention on the mailing list of the British Associati...
World Historical Trends: Valentine's Day Surgery?
My father sent along this article about the rise in Shanghai of plastic surgery being marketed to couples as a Valentine’s Day celebration/present. I don&...
Colonialogy
I think we need a new word for the study of colonialism, imperialism and the post-colonial discourses, pro and con. Pro? Who’s in favor of it? Well, this ...
Menzies and the problem of the "Smoking Gun" document
Menzies’ thesis won’t die. Just when it seemed to be fading out (unless Menzies’ argument about Mongol exploration is really his next focus), ...