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Category: Intellectual

Books/China/English/Intellectual/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Sinology and Simon Leys

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

New York Review of Books Classics has re-printed Simon Leys’ The Hall of Uselessness: Selected Essays. This makes him the first Sinologist to crack the NY...

Anecdotes/China/Intellectual/Pre-Han/Teaching

Mixing water with water

Posted on September 12, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is a dialogue (from the Zuozhuan) I used in class this week. The Duke declares “It is Ju alone who is in harmony with me.” Yanzi replied, “Ju is in f...

China/English/Historiography/Intellectual

What Do Lin Yutang and Lin Biao Have in Common? They Were Both Memory Holed

Posted on February 2, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Global Voices, a quite useful and smart blog, on January 30 posted Two Versions of Mao’s China: History Retouched as Propaganda, which has an set of uncanny ...

China/English/Intellectual/Literature/Qing

Thurify yourself

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the things we have read for the May Fourth class I am teaching is Liang Qichao’s On the Relationship between Fiction and the Government of the Peop...

China/China-U.S./English/Intellectual/Republican

"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism

Posted on July 17, 2010 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Over at the invaluable Danwei,  Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...

Academia/English/Intellectual/Japan/Literature/Translation/江戸

Ueda Akinari translation

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

PMJS has published William Clarke and Wendy Cobcroft’s annotated translation of Ueda Akinari’s Tandai Shoshinroku, available as a free PDF and also ...

Academia/Books and Articles/General/Historiography/Intellectual/Japan/video/江戸

Productive Procrastination

Posted on May 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

The Journal of the Historical Society has put five recent articles up for free, including a four-year old essay by Herman Ooms on the state of Tokugawa intellec...

China/English/Intellectual

May 4th is irrelevant

Posted on May 2, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

May Fourth is here and one of the things that makes the 21st century great is that if you want to read some May Fourth writers you don’t have to go to you...

China/Historiography/Intellectual/Science and Technology

Need a dissertation topic?

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There is a very interesting review of Simon Winchester’s Bomb, Book, and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China (sold in America as The Ma...

Academia/General/Historiography/Intellectual/Japan

Japanology….

Posted on January 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

One of my general exam advisor/examiners has passed away: Donald Fleming who was Harvard’s preeminent intellectual historian for many years. I studied Eur...

China/Intellectual/Post-Mao/Web Sites and Resources

First, kill all the Legalists

Posted on March 1, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Sam at Useless Tree draws our attention to a really interesting website called 新法家(in English the New Legalist) I’m not quite sure who these people are, b...

China/English/Intellectual/Qing

Darwin the Confucian

Posted on February 12, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

As today is Darwin Day I thought I would post something on China’s reception of Darwin’s work. He tended to be confused with Spencer at first, and E...

Diaspora/English/General/Intellectual/Japan/Korea-Japan/Law/Literature/昭和

Diasporic Remnants

Posted on September 17, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’m always interested in interesting tales and connections regarding the Japanese diaspora. Here’s a couple that I’ve run across: New research...

China/General/Intellectual/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Republican

Chairman Mao’s teacher

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A nice article in Modern China on Mao’s teacher Yang Changji. The article draws on Yeh Wen-Hsin’s work on the provincial background of many of the second group ...

China/Gender/General/Intellectual

Ancient Chinese sex advice

Posted on October 30, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

One scholar who has had a lot of influence on my teaching on Early China is Mark Edward Lewis. I sometimes assign Sanctioned Violence in Early China, and if I h...

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