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Can you speak Chinese?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Current Events/Current/Recent Events/Hong Kong/Politics/Popular Culture/visual culture

Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

Popular Culture/Religion/Republican/Science / Technology

Radio in China

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I was looking around for some information on Chinese radio during the Republic and discovered that there is not much out there. There are some cites in this the...

Japanese/Movies/Popular Culture

Chinese Anti-Japanese films

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

There is a new book out, though sadly only in Japanese so far, about Chinese Anti-Japanese films. There are countless Sino-Japanese war movies and TV shows, and...

Books/Japan/Popular Culture/Teaching/visual culture

Pan-Asian Hell

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

People like Hell. Most religions seem to have one, and depicting it is a classic way of instructing the masses about the wages of sin. Reproducing these images ...

Politics/Popular Culture/Republican/Social History/visual culture

Chinese Manhua and social criticism

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...

Books and Articles/Cultural/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/martial arts/Pedagogy/Popular Culture/US-Japan/江戸

Ninjas at Night, Dragons at Dawn: Magic Tree House does Japanese History

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House series is intended to educate and entertain by taking its protagonists to different times and places, real and mythic...

Communism/Occupation/Popular Culture/US-Japan

The Red Flag Song

Posted on October 30, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

On May 1, 1946 Oscar Olander, a former commissioner of the Michigan State police, entered Tokyo early on the morning of “Food May Day” as part of hi...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/globalization/Japan/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword: Ancient Culture, Modern Politics

Posted on August 30, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Reading The Way of the Sword while listening to the “Restoring Honor” event, I began to wonder if our current shift to discourses of honor and warri...

English/Foreign Views/General/globalization/Japan/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/US-Japan/昭和

Before the miniseries, there was….

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not sure when my family got this game, but I remember playing with it in the late 70s. Though Shogun is described as a “digital” game, the...

Books and Articles/English/Foreign Views/Gender/General/globalization/Historiography/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/martial arts/Popular Culture/江戸

Young Samurai Book One (of at least three): Harry Potter Bushido

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

I almost didn’t check Chris Bradford‘s Young Samurai: The Way of the Warrior out of the library when I saw it, but some instinct told me that it was...

Books and Articles/Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Popular Culture

Say hello to your new robot overlords!

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

A recent article in the Japan Times, pointed out to me by a resourceful student (thanks Lindsay!), shows that the future imagined in Ghost in the Shell and othe...

Books and Articles/Cultural/General/Japan/Literature/Popular Culture/幕末/明治

The Teahouse Fire: Painstaking

Posted on February 11, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

I don’t often get unsolicited books with handwritten notes from the authors, unless I worked with them in some way. What was even more surprising is that ...

Cultural/Current/Recent Events/English/Japan/Law/Medieval/Popular Culture/平成

Only in Japan: Yakuza Sued

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The New York Times is reporting on tensions between the Dojinkai and the civilians living in the neighborhood of their headquarters. Two features of this are wo...

Diaspora/Japan/Popular Culture

Otakon: Desperately Seeking Academics

Posted on May 1, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I hear through the grapevine that the organizers of Otakon, the huge anime/manga/pop culture convention held every in August in Baltimore, are looking for acade...

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