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Category: Religion

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Radio in China

Posted on January 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I was looking around for some information on Chinese radio during the Republic and discovered that there is not much out there. There are some cites in this the...

Japan/Literature/Religion/Teaching

Was Hirata Atsutane Japan’s first Science Fiction writer?

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Maybe. Well, sort of. It kind of depends on how you define things. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) was one of the key thinkers and popularizers of Japanese Nativism...

Religion/Taiwan

Do you want some pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo’s funeral?

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Of course you do. Assuming you are interested in either the history of Christianity in Taiwan or funeral customs or.. well… China. More here.

Books/China/Religion

Why are the Chinese atheists?

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Sam Crane, at Useless Tree, comments on the recent study that shows that China has a higher percentage of atheists than anyplace else in the world. Sam suggests...

Books/China/Religion/Tibet

Teachers as sages. Also, Tibet

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is something wonderful from Donald Lopez’s Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West1 If you have not read it, it is a very good book on...

China/English/Religion/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture

Very superstitious

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Above is a charm carried by a Chinese soldier in 1938, re-printed in the journal Youth Front in 1938. It seems to be a Communist publication, although this bein...

1960s/1970s/1980s/Christianity/Contemporary/General/Historiography/Korea/Postwar/Religion/US-Korea

Things I don’t know about Korea, part 3

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of the things that I noticed about the materials I used last time I taught Korean history1 is that the texts I chose for my course did not mention, much les...

China/English/Humor/Religion

Zhong Kui comes to Sunnydale High

Posted on August 8, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Sigh… I try to keep my posts to this blog to at least a minimal level of scholarly-ness. At the very least I try to avoid doing too many posts on weird Ch...

Academia/Anecdotes/Foreign Views/Japan/Religion/US-Japan/昭和

Japan as apocalyptic fulfillment

Posted on April 10, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I have to get to my AAS blogging, I know, but I have to share something I ran across reading — of all things — David Walsh’s HNN reports from ...

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...

Christianity/Frog in A Well/Historical analogies/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Religion/Textbooks

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

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

China/Current Events/English/Public History/Religion/Tang

What do you really think Mr. Jiang?

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Chinese museums are one of the best places to look at the changing interpretation of historical figures and events. Last weekend I went to Famen temple outside ...

Academia/General/globalization/Japan/Religion

Conference Blogging: ASPAC 2009 at Soka University

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

ASPAC was at Soka University of America this year. It’s in the hills above Laguna Beach, just down the road from Irvine, on the edge of a nature reserve. ...

China/English/Historiography/Qin-Han/Religion/Teaching

Male and female lightly engaged in erotic excess

Posted on May 22, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The behavior of the people, the cosmic order, and the stability of the state were all linked in traditional Chinese political theory. Disorder in one would lead...

China/Current Events/English/Ethnic Minorities/Religion/Tibet

Heartland Mandala

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I was surprised to learn, about ten days ago, that PSU was going to be hosting a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks creating a sand mandala. This is a touring comp...

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