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Category: Imperialism

1945-1950/1960s/1970s/1980s/Colonial/Current/Recent Events/Imperialism/Japan/Korea/Korea-Japan/North Korea/US-Korea

“North Korea: Hangover of the 20th Century”

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Missouri Southern State, Pittsburg State’s rival/sister school across the state line in Joplin, does “international semesters” in the Fall, an...

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...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Imperialism

Opium warlord dies

Posted on January 24, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you study the history of drugs in Asia1 the period right after 1945 marks an important divide. Down to maybe 1840 (or in some contexts much later) drugs (mos...

Anecdotes/China/Diplomacy/English/Imperialism

A clash of symbols

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

In the introduction of Julia Lovell’s The Opium War she discusses an incident from November, 2010. David Cameron had gone to China, and it being November ...

Anecdotes/Books/China/English/Historiography/Imperialism

History and hats

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

One book that I use in my classes is Bickers’ Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in Shanghai. The book is the story of William Tinkler, an Englishman wh...

China/English/Imperialism/Literature/Qing

Boxers and history

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Via Jeremiah Jenne, a link to an Economist article on the legacy of the Boxers. It is without a doubt the best article on Chinese history I have ever seen in a ...

China/China-Korea/Identity/Imperialism/Translation

The Will of a Traitor

Posted on May 12, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 5 Comments

There is a lot of treason to be found in the vicinity of LOC number DS777.5195.W34 in the Harvard-Yenching library. It’s Wang Jingwei (汪精衛) territory, inf...

China/China-Japan/Diaspora/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Japan/Nationalism

Imperial Visits and Attitudes

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I just learned of the Japanese Emperor and Empress’ visit to Hawai’i [via]. It’s not the first time that a member of the Japanese Imperial fam...

China/English/Foreign Views/Imperialism/Qing/Tibet

Following Younghusband to Lhasa

Posted on March 26, 2009 by Scott Relyea / 12 Comments

Just a quick post of a wonderful website I stumbled upon doing a bit of background research for a point I needed to make in the chapter I’m currently work...

China/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Imperialism

"Never the Twain Shall (Track) Meet": Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Olympic Lies

Posted on September 8, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management has a well informed insider’s view of the Olympics, “Olympics Reveal East-West Divide.” (F...

Articles/China/Identity/Imperialism/Tibet

Learning about Tibet III

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Having learned any number of things about Tibet recently I thought I would learn some more, and thankfully the new Modern China (34.2) arrived with an interesti...

China/English/Imperialism/Manchukuo/Republican

Racial harmony in China's North-East

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

In honor of Black History Month I thought I would post something on W.E.B. Dubois and China. I knew that DuBois had dabbled in almost every radical movement ima...

China/Economics/Imperialism/Taiwan

Comparative Colonialism-Taiwan

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

 Japan Focus has a nice article by Anne Booth on Japanese colonialism in Taiwan (and Korea) The standard view is that the post-war development of both places ha...

China/Imperialism/Qing/Teaching

Teaching with Tools

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One of the classes I will be doing next semester is History 200, Introduction to History, which is our methods course for majors, usually taken when they are so...

China/China-Japan/China-Korea/Identity/Imperialism

Asian symbols

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Useless Tree has a post up on the Chinese roots of the Korean flag. This post led me to look up an interesting, if rather old, article on the use of R...

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