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1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

Korea/Literature/Teaching/Translation

Korean social history through yadam

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I was recently sent a copy of Si Nae Park The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia U.P., 2020) It̵...

Literature/Poetry/Teaching

The Songs of Chu

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Gopal Suku’s new translation of Qu Yuan’s The Songs of Chu. I am not qualified to speak about it as a scholarly tran...

Literature/Qing/visual culture

Dress and identity in the Qing

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Guojun Wang’s Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. I am not particularly a student of drama, or of costume, but in the T...

Japan/Literature/Religion/Teaching

Was Hirata Atsutane Japan’s first Science Fiction writer?

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Maybe. Well, sort of. It kind of depends on how you define things. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) was one of the key thinkers and popularizers of Japanese Nativism...

Literature/Teaching/Translation

Who likes short shorts?

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Mu Aili and Mike Smith’s Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text. The book is, as you might have g...

Books/Classics/Literature/Pedagogy/Teaching/Translation

Books with “Laozi” on the cover

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Konrad called my attention to Paul R. Goldin’s “Those Who Don’t Know Speak: Translations of the Daode Jing by People Who Do Not Know Chinese.”1 As you mig...

Academia/Literature

David Todd Roy has died

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This saddens me a great deal. I saw him speak years ago when only one volume of his Jin Ping Mei translation was out, and I wondered if he would finish. He did ...

Libraries/Tang/Tibet/Translation/Web Sites

Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you teach about Dunhuang, or the Tang dynasty, or inter-cultural contact, or just like to read interesting things, you should be aware of the Early Tibet web...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

Literature/Teaching/Translation

Folding Beijing

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the primary sources I assigned for my History of East Asia class this semester was “Folding Beijing” a Chinese science fiction story by Hao J...

Anecdotes/Literature/Poetry/Translation

Li Bai and the whale

Posted on May 20, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the books I will be using in class this Fall is Sanyan Stories by Feng Menglong. In class we will be using the much condensed version from University of ...

Books/Gender/Literature/Translation

Zhuangzi’s brain

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Wilt Idema The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun.  The book is a translation of various versions of the story of Zhuangzi and th...

Historiography/Literature/Tang

Wang Wei and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Sarah M. Allen’s Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China.  One of the main texts she is look...

Literature/Translation

Literary Detectives (SO-27) OR The Strange Affair of the Flesh of the Bosom

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you have not read David Lodge’s Small World you should. It is a fine comic academic novel. At one point our hero is in a bar with a bunch of drunken Ja...

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