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Category: Qing

Books/China/Economics/English/Qing/Republican

Salt

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

One of the many, many cool things about Madeleine Zelin’s new book The Merchants of Zigong: Industrial Entrepreneurship in Early Modern China is its discu...

China/Diplomacy/Historiography/Imperialism/Qing

We have never valued ingenious articles

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

The generally excellent blog Jottings from the Granite Studio has an interesting post up on practical learning. The post is about the tendency of American unive...

China/China-Korea/China-U.S./Diaspora/English/General/Identity/Japan/Post-Mao/Qing

(A Little) Chinese History at ASPAC

Posted on June 28, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

There was, I’ll admit, a lot of Chinese content at ASPAC which I didn’t see. Such is life. I did see two papers which I want to discuss here briefly...

China/China-Japan/General/Japan/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Taiwan gained and lost

Posted on June 18, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...

China/Gender/General/Identity/Imperialism/Qing

Elvis is everywhere

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

A nice little picture from Shenbao, one of Shanghai’s most important early 20th century newspapers. The caption complains about Chinese women. Specifically it p...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Identity/Nationalism/Qing/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Chinese in Motion

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 13 Comments

Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...

China/English/Ethnic Minorities/General/Qing/Republican/Tibet

Self-introduction: Scott Relyea 李皓同

Posted on July 27, 2006 by Scott Relyea / 2 Comments

Hi everyone at 井底之蛙, First of all, I’d like to thank Konrad for the invitation to join the Frog in a Well community. I’m happy to become part of wha...

China/General/Imperialism/Qing/Republican/Taiwan/War

Thank you for not smoking

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Today is 6-3 anti-opium day in the Nanjing period and Anti-Smoking Day on Taiwan. It commemorates Lin Zexu’s destruction of the British Opium at Humen. In...

China/Gender/General/Qing

Why didn’t Manchu women bind their feet?

Posted on November 22, 2005 by Alan Baumler / 20 Comments

It is well-known that even after the conquest of China Manchu women did not bind their feet. The Qing emperors took clothing and hair very seriously as ways of ...

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