December 2008 History Carnival
“In retrospect, historians are usually right.” — Der Spiegel interviewer (11-11-08). This has been a lively month for history blogging, for so...
Category: Nationalism
Another Disappointment
I always get a little nervous when a world history textbook cites details about Japanese history which I’ve never heard of before. I’m still mostly ...
Migration, Nationalism, Empire
Tessa Morris-Suzuki’s recent Japan Focus article, “Migrants, Subjects, Citizens: Comparative Perspectives on Nationality in the Prewar Japanese Empi...
Show me the money
From the Times via CDT an article about a group of Chinese intellectuals who are asking for some new people to be put on Chinese currency. This is actually a bi...
Olympics, China's Dreams, and the Fear of Nationalism
The new book Olympic Dreams: China and Sports, 1895-2008 (Harvard University Press) by Xu Guoqi 1 , is a good read but also a serious piece of research which us...
China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Okinawa/War/昭和
How do you say “Fast of the First Born” in Japanese?
I was thinking about whether to even attempt a contribution to the latest symposium on the role of historical animosities — and their appeasement — ...
Korean War Criminals in the Movement to “Set History Straight”
Frog in a Well welcomes a guest posting from Sayaka Chatani on the issue of Korean War Criminals and the difficulty Korean historians have found in addressing t...
Unity across the Taiwan strait
Via China Digital Times a You Tube presentation for foreigners who know f****1 all about Chinese history explaining why Tibet was, is and always will be part of...
AHA 2008: a very limited perspective
It was a very busy conference for me, but my meetings didn’t leave me a lot of time for panels.1 None, in fact, except for our own, which was great fun. I...
1949 Banning Japanese Subtitles
On the second page of the June 25th issue of The Korean Free Press (자유신문 自由新聞) there is a very small article which shows how long the process of eliminating the...
Ethnocentrism and the Origins of Korean Nationalism
In the opinion pages of the 2007.09.17 issue of Chosun Ilbo, there is an article which discusses the nationalism (민족주의) of Korea’s “386 generation.&...
Korean War Criminals
Sayaka over at Prison Notebooks has been reading up on the history of Korea’s wartime B/C war criminals for a short paper she has been writing. In additio...
The Chinese Monster
Near Kwanghwamun this afternoon there were a number of nationalist Anti-China placards set up. Could China someday become the new Japan? I think it is too early...
Now you can join the Righteous Army
Seodaemun prison was open to the public today and as I write this posting various patriotic performances are underway on the grounds of a prison where the priso...
Kim Dae-jung – the “Pro-Japanese” Traitor?
Leaflet being handed out near the Japanese embassy today: On every trip I have made to Korea I have come across leaflets handed out at station exits accusing so...