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Culture/Gender/photography/Republican

Mass weddings in China-New Life Movement

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

This is a picture from a New Life Movement Mass Wedding in Nanjing. Couples could be married for a fee of only $20 after filling out a few forms and being check...

Diaspora/photography

The Chinese in Chicago

Posted on September 22, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you want to see a bunch of old Chicago Tribune pictures of life in Chinatown? Of course you do. Here is Anna May Wong visiting Chicago And Mei Lanfang Protes...

Books and Articles/Conferences/Current/Recent Events/Diaspora/General/Japan/photography

AAS Love – Self Promotion Edition

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s a good week for me and the Association for Asian Studies. I just got my Journal of Asian Studies in the mail. Not only did I get the journal, but

English/Japan/Memory/photography/War/昭和

Hiroshima +50 (and +40)

Posted on September 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I haven’t participated in that many “historic” events, but I’m now old enough that my early pictures qualify as historic documents, at l...

English/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/photography/昭和

Hirohito’s last birthday

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m almost done, I suppose, with the first phase of my image digitization and pedagogy project, namely scanning a significant chunk of my Japan slides and...

Archaeology/Art/General/Japan/photography

Cultural and Physical History Mystery

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Michelle Damian, who I met at ASPAC, has a new post up in her project journal with an intriguing mystery: One type of vessel that has intrigued me is the massiv...

Academia/Archives/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/photography/War

Archival Incidents, or What is it with Pictures?

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as “newly discovered” photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. ...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/General/Japan/photography/US-Japan

Vagaries of Honolulu

Posted on June 19, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things I always look forward to when I go to Honlulu is visiting the Okonomiyaki restaurant in the International Marketplace — there just aren&...

Academia/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/English/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan/War/昭和

What’s New?

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The University of Hawai’i at Manoa Center for Japanese Studies has a new collection of Occupation-era photographs. I’m struck by two things in parti...

Cultural/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Memory/photography/US-Japan/明治/昭和

Girls’ Day 2007, Hilo

Posted on March 3, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

The Hawai’i Japanese Center had an open house today for Girls’ Day, and I brought my camera. I didn’t make my 5-year old sit through the borin...

General/Japan/Occupation/photography/US-Japan

Photos of Japan, 1951

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 13 Comments

One of my former students and her boyfriend have been scanning in old photos, and they happened upon some gems taken by the young man’s grandfather when h...

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