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Category: Qing

China/English/Intellectual/Literature/Qing

Thurify yourself

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the things we have read for the May Fourth class I am teaching is Liang Qichao’s On the Relationship between Fiction and the Government of the Peop...

China/China-Japan/Historiography/Nationalism/Qing

Daiyou Islands: New Sources, New Clarity?

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

NYT reporter Nick Kristof brought in a guest blogger, Han-Yi Shaw of Taiwan, to examine some new mid-Meiji documentation about Japan’s relationship with t...

China/English/Qing/Social History/Teaching

Life imitates The Office

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As someone who is a member of an academic department and of two University-wide committees I think a lot about bureaucracy. Since I am teaching Modern China thi...

China/Current Events/English/Qing/War

The good old days of empire

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

My local paper ran an editorial (version here) by Rich Lowry which gave readers more Qing dynasty history than they normally get.  As an American conservative h...

China/English/Imperialism/Literature/Qing

Boxers and history

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Via Jeremiah Jenne, a link to an Economist article on the legacy of the Boxers. It is without a doubt the best article on Chinese history I have ever seen in a ...

China/Current Events/Qing

Hoping for charity, without getting faith involved

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

The New Republic has an article by Gordon Chang on the lack of philanthropy among China’s rich. As he points out, one of the things blocking the emergence...

China/English/Qing/Republican/visual culture

Revolution in pictures

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here, from Stapleton’s Civilizing Chengdu is Yang Wei, Chinese Revolutionary, in prison, November 25, 1911. Below is a picture of Yang as superintendent o...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Qing

In hot water

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Some of you may know that Old China Hand James Fallows has a bit of a bee in his bonnet about frogs. Specifically he has been waging war against the common trop...

China/China-Korea/Frog in A Well/Historiography/Qing/Religion

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...

China/Qing/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Common culture

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

China Gateway has some pictures, with translation, from The Dianshizhai Pictorial the famous late 19th century Shanghai illustrated paper. I say famous because ...

China/English/Post-Mao/Qing

Save the Pandas

Posted on September 23, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A couple of years ago before I left for a trip to China an imperial princess told me to get a picture of a panda. I pointed out that there were a zillion pictur...

anniversaries/China/Libraries/Qing

Happy Birthday New Policies!

Posted on September 16, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the New Policies (新政) reforms of the late Qing. Well, not really. The Late Qing reforms are increasingly seen as more import...

China/Post-Mao/Qing/Teaching

Teaching Confucianism

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Guess who’s in Bejing! Well, not me anymore since I just left1 I snuck away from my conference for a bit to go to the Confucian temple and the Yonghe temp...

China/English/Qing/visual culture

China at War

Posted on May 14, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Something cool via Wikipedia. A film of a naval engagement in the First Sino-Japanese war. It comes from a Japanese site, and I’m not sure of the provenan...

Books/China/Labor/Qing/Teaching

Grading exams in Late Imperial China

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As finals week is here for many of us I thought this would be a good time to dip into Benjamin Elman’s A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Im...

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