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Category: Republican

Culture/Gender/photography/Republican

Mass weddings in China-New Life Movement

Posted on July 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

This is a picture from a New Life Movement Mass Wedding in Nanjing. Couples could be married for a fee of only $20 after filling out a few forms and being check...

Newspapers/Republican

The changing Chinese press

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Cécile Armand has been posting on her work on the evolution of the Republican-era Chinese press, based on Carl Crow’s Newspaper Directory of China. Althou...

1911/Maps/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image I use in class, from Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China New York: Facts on File, 1983. p.158. This has some good images i...

Popular Culture/Religion/Republican/Science / Technology

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...

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...

Books/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Teaching Revolutionary China : China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle

Posted on November 23, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A book that seems to have worked well for me in my teaching is Zhu Qihua China : China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle The class was History of Modern China,, syllabu...

Nationalism/Republican/visual culture

Chiang Kai-shek, Enemy of the People

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have found and interesting source. Dr Jeremy Taylor at the Department of History, University of Nottingham has a site entitled ‘Enemy of the People̵...

Politics/Popular Culture/Republican/Social History/visual culture

Chinese Manhua and social criticism

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...

Aviation/Republican/visual culture

Multi-cultural Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a nice picture of Chiang Kai-shek and his government’s outreach to minority nationalities. It comes from 蒙藏月報1935,3(6) (Mongolia and Tibet Monthly...

Aviation/Gender/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Oriental Women

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the “First Chinese civilian aviator.” In her various tours of No...

Books/China/English/Republican/Science and Technology

Unearthing the Nation

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Grace Yen Shen’s Unearthing the Nation: Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China is a really good book. Shen says that at first “it took a lot o...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Language/Republican

Seek truth from facts

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

The Atlantic has a post by Matt Schiavenza entitled “What’s with the Chinese Communist Party and Slogans” It’s a nice little piece on th...

China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/War

China becomes air-minded

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

So, I presented a paper at AAS in San Diego. Obviously the high points were meeting Konrad Lawson in person and eating really good fish tacos, so I could taunt ...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Are Japanese people evil?

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

There has been some commentary, both on well-known blogs and obscure ones on Robert Farley’s Diplomat article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and im...

Archives/China/English/Republican

National Library of China- A fine place to do research

Posted on September 11, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Most of our readers who might care already know this, but the National Library in Beijing is a fine place to do research on Republican China. It has it&#...

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