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Japan/Posts/Teaching

Tokugawa Japan-What’s the question?

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, again this fall I will be having students in my upper-level class (in this case Early  Modern Japan) do a group research project. The end of the project wil...

Education/Hong Kong/Posts

Hong Kong Education in Chinese Schools 1929

Posted on May 23, 2023 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

Today I was browsing through US national archives microfilm reels containing state department records related to British Asia, 1910-29.1 There is always fun and...

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Cleaning Up Tables from Primary Sources in ChatGPT

Posted on March 4, 2023 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I’ve been following with interest the debates around the rapid emergence of powerful large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, its Bing siblin...

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Confucius at Eighty: Sufficiently Decayed or Ready for a Great Xi Change?

Posted on March 3, 2023 by C. W. Hayford / 1 Comment

Kong Qiu, Kongzi, or Master Kong, known in English as “Confucius,” marked the passing of the decades: At fifteen I set my heart upon learning.At thirty, I had p...

Korea/Posts

The Banality of a New Spirit Movement 새마음운동

Posted on December 23, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

While poking around for English language materials to offer students on post-1945 South Korea, I came across The New Spirit Movement, a 1979 collection of short...

Korea/North Korea/Posts

Drawings in the North Korean Magazine Hwalsal/Hwasal

Posted on November 13, 2022 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I’ve been watching Twitter not-so-slowly go into decline and it has made me reflect on  how, increasingly over the last decade, I’ve been sharing fun sour...

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Group research project -Abortive Revolution

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Update Here is the semi-final list of topics for the group research project. So if you want a definitive list of all the things that were going on in Republican...

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Failure to communicate -Huainanzi

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

So, the Huainanzi project in my early China class went ok, and would have worked better if I had been better at explaining what I wanted from the final paper. I...

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Syllabus blogging Fall 2020 -HIST 433 China 1300-1800 The Late Imperial Age

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. This is my upper-division class for the semester, where I want to push students i...

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A Wuhan Timeline and Bibliography

Posted on March 3, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The world’s attention has, for the most part, moved on from Wuhan, the city where the the Covid-19 virus outbreak began. Now the media both within and bey...

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Mapping China from the air

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Since I have been posting maps, I thought I would put this up. This is from Shigeru Kobayashi 小林茂, Gaihōzu : Teikoku Nihon no Ajia chizu 外邦図 : 帝国日本のアジア地図 (Tōk...

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Confucius hates Japan

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Once upon a time I was big into Chinese currency. Not so much as a speculator, but as one of the people who bought old banknotes from people who were selling th...

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Revolutionary China

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Looking to spend some money? There are a lot of good essays in the Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China. The editing is not that good, but there are some r...

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Bullets and Opium-Tiananmen thirty years later

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Part of my summer reading has been Liao Yiwu‘s Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Liao got in trouble afte...

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“What I Read Over Summer Vacation” (part one?)

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’ve been on something of a tear through my to-read pile in search of… well, I’m not entirely sure some days. A lot of what’s in that st...

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