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Category: Museums

Labor/Museums/Public History

Is the Shanghai Textile Museum the best museum in China?

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

The Shanghai Textile Museum 上海纺织博物馆 150 Aomen Rd; 澳門路150号(right near the M50 art district) is not one of the most famous museums in China. Lonely Planet dismiss...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

Academia/Art/Japan/Museums

Samurai Exhibit Pwned

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 8 Comments

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been targeted by an anonymous artistic and political intervention that parodies the current Lords of the Samurai exhib...

Academia/Archives/Art/Cultural/General/Historiography/Japan/Maps/Museums/Teaching/Web Sites

Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scannin...

Events/Film/Japan/Museums

Film Festival

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Just received this from friends at the Japanese American National Museum: The Japanese American National Museum is accepting film & video submissions for th...

Art/Current/Recent Events/Events/Japan/Museums

Samurai-related events, Bowers Museum

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

The Bowers Museum in southern California opens a new exhibition this Sunday, “Art of the Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum.” In con...

Art/Diaspora/Japan/Museums/US-Japan

Giant Robot Exhibition

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

The Japanese American National Museum once again displays its amazing ability to hone in on topics of widespread interest while still staying true to its missio...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/US-Japan/War

The Rice Bowl and the Bomb

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Japan Focus and the NYTimes seem to be in sync at the moment, with a spate of pieces on resurgent nationalism and Japanese war memory.1 Say what you like about ...

Academia/Education/English/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/War/昭和

Japanese War Memories at ASPAC

Posted on July 1, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not going to go though quite the same song-and-dance I did with Japanese Diaspora or South Asian studies because these issues are much more familiar t...

Korea/Links/Museums/Nationalism

Korea: The Uniqueness

Posted on June 5, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Over at my own blog Muninn I have posted an entry talking a bit about the portray of Japan and Korea in the “Hall of Asian Peoples” in New York̵...

Academia/China-Japan/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Museums/Nationalism/Occupation/War

Grading Finished; Blogging Resumes

Posted on December 24, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Colonial/Conferences/Historiography/Intellectual/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Museums/Nationalism

Empty history

Posted on October 25, 2006 by Owen / 7 Comments

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...

Academia/Archaeology/Art/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/English/Gender/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Teaching

History Carnival #38

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...

Archaeology/Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Koryŏ/Late Chosŏn/Law/Libraries/Museums

History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Owen / 0 Comment

For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...

Christianity/Korea/Museums/Religion

Museum: The Korean Christian Museum at Soongsil University

Posted on July 28, 2006 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

In my constant search for quiet, smoke-free, and affordable coffee shops to study in, I recently came upon the Starbucks near Soongsil University (숭실대학교), which...

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