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Category: Qing

Databases/Qing

Visualizing Qing history

Posted on July 26, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Liu Junde has created a data browser you can use to draw things from the CGED-Q database of Qing officialdom. Here is a description posted to Facebook by Camero...

Literature/Qing/visual culture

Dress and identity in the Qing

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Guojun Wang’s Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. I am not particularly a student of drama, or of costume, but in the T...

Gender/Qing/Republican/Social History/Teaching

Did Chinese women go to opium dens?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since someone asked me if Qing women went to opium dens, I thought I would answer and put up some of my evidence. Short answer – I don’t think so, a...

Gender/Qing

Would the Boxers vote for Trump?

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Of course not. They were not registered, and in any case that would be foreign interference in an election that would Hurt The Feelings Of The American People. ...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

Books/Ming/Qing/Teaching

Teaching Late Imperial Chinese cultural history

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Update So I think I have figured this one out, with a little help from my friends, both here and via e-mail. I will be using Tim Brook’s Troubled Empire t...

General/Qing/World/明治

Lagging

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Mohammad Fadel, in Islamic Monthly (h/t Naheed Mustafa) chides critics of Islam who take contemporary Western ideals of egalitarianism and personal freedom as t...

Literature/Qing/Teaching/Textbooks/Translation

Shen Fu vs. Zhang Daye

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

One thing I always have to do as a teacher is figure out what books to assign. Since I always find this hard to do, I thought I would think it out in terms of M...

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/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/Qing/Science and Technology/visual culture

City of big shoulders

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So I spent some time at the library going through 圖畫日報 Although it is not a paper that lasted long (1909-1910) there is lots of cool stuff here connected to the...

China/Education/Qing

Why go to college?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Tea Leaf Nation has a post up on a micro-trend of Chinese kids not going to college, or at least one parent not being willing to pay for it, on the grounds that...

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/Public History/Qing

Nationalism sucks

Posted on May 26, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

A very sad post from the Economist on the problem of the zodiac heads. Basically, a wealthy Frenchman has agreed to donate two of the bronze heads stolen from t...

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