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On the opening vignette as pedagogy

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

A passage I wrote for one of my online course discussion boards: One of my pet peeves about textbook, history, and journalistic writing is the use of the “...

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Pedagogy In The Wild

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In a thoughtful discussion of teaching at USIH, I commented In addition to all the other qualifications and tensions around teaching, there are gaps between dis...

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Syllabus blogging for Fall 2018

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

So, as is our tradition, a bit about what I will be doing in my classes in the Fall. As is also tradition, I am doing this way too late to incorporate any of yo...

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Fame! and journalism

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Don’t you hate it when a good bit of teaching material comes to your attention just a little too late? I hate it when that happens. In this case the probl...

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Syllabus blogging for Spring 2018

Posted on December 18, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

This is way too early for me, but I thought I would procrastinate on grading a bit by thinking about what I will be doing in Spring and asking for some advice. ...

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On “Buddhist Atrocities”

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the odd substrains of commentary on the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Myanmar is Americans (mostly, as near as I can tell) shocked that a Buddhist society...

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End of an Era

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

On this date, April 25, in 1644 the Chongzhen Emperor, last ruler of the Ming Dynasty hung himself from a tree on Meishan in Beiijng, bringing an end to Ming (a...

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Teaching about lives

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since James Joshua Hudson brought it up on Facebook, I thought I would say something about teaching with Robert Bickers’ Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in...

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Sidney Mintz

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Not that I have much to say about it, but if you are interested in the history of commodities or consumption or of the links between anthropology and history th...

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Syllabus blogging

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As is something of a tradition here, I am asking for help with my classes. This one is HIST 206 History of East Asia, (i.e. Rice Paddies.) This has not changed ...

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The cult of Madame Chiang

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Chiang Kai-shek used his wife Soong Mei-ling, as an important part of his attempts to reach out to the Americans and encourage them to see China as a modern nat...

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Frog in a Well enters the Five Dynasties phase

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This blog is currently going through a Tang-Song transition sort of thing: a somewhat confusing period of change from which it emerges better than ever…ma...

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