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Category: Public History

Labor/Museums/Public History

Is the Shanghai Textile Museum the best museum in China?

Posted on June 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

The Shanghai Textile Museum 上海纺织博物馆 150 Aomen Rd; 澳門路150号(right near the M50 art district) is not one of the most famous museums in China. Lonely Planet dismiss...

Cultural/Culture/Guides/Japanese/Public History/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

A brief note on Google Culture

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Google Culture is apparently producing some original content: “A brief history of Kimono” https://shinpaideshou.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/fun-link-fr...

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

China/Public History/Qing

Something new at the Old Summer Palace?

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

I was at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing (Yuanmingyuan) There was something there I did not remember seeing before.1 They have replicas of the zodiac heads out...

China/English/Public History/Qing/visual culture

China's first statue?

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

I found this in 圖書日報, I think from 1910. It is a statue of Lin Zexu that may be China’s first public statue. It is of course not the first statue to exist...

China/Public History/Web Sites and Resources

Digital History and teaching

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Yoni Applebaum has apparently taken a break from filming The Matrix 4 to record a clip on The Historian in The Digital Age. For those of you don’t know hi...

Books/China/English/Nationalism/Public History

China's Museums

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I have been reading China’s Museums, part of the Cambridge University Press series Introductions to Chinese Culture. I am finding the table of contents pa...

China/Countryside/Current Events/English/Public History/Qing

History and tourism in China

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

China File has been following the attempts of the town of Bishan  to make itself into a tourist destination. Tourism is a rapidly growing industry in China, and...

China/English/Food/Public History

Underage drinking in Southeast Asia

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Apparently the Mint Museum of Toys in Singapore is worth seeing. Although I have not been, it seems that they currently have an exhibit up on “Guinness by...

China/English/Public History/Tibet

The pure land of Tibet and the lothesome Han Chinese

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Washington Monthly has an article up on Chinese tourism in Tibet. It is by Pearl Sydenstricker, who is a western (I assume) reporter who does not want to use th...

Books/China/Public History/Tang/visual culture

China in Cartoons II

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

The second volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out.1 I ‘reviewed‘ the first volume and concluded that Jing Liu is no Larry Gonick, but i...

China/English/Public History

Xi'an Walls

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The city of Xi’an is in the process of re-building the city wall and adding four new museums, one each for the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. I was no...

1911/China/Public History/Taiwan

1911 in 2013

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I was going to do a post on how the Chinese world is remembering 1911, the overthrow of the Qing, and founding of the Chinese Republic. The answer seems to be t...

China/East vs West/English/Public History/Qing/Teaching

Chinese youth defending their rights

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

My historical methods course for the Fall will be looking at the Boxers, and I have been reading Jane Elliott’s book on the Boxers.1 It’s a really i...

China/English/Japan/Pigs/Public History/Wikipedia

Pigs in the News and In Wikipedia: Or, Lipstick on a Frog

Posted on June 30, 2013 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Vladimir Putin is on a roll. He has been having a fine time poking the US in the eye over the Edward Snowden kerfuffle,  but at a news conference he declin...

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