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Category: Republican

China/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

30 seconds over Taihoku

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

On February 23, 1938, the Russians bombed Taipei. Given how worried the government was about Taipei being bombed by communists when I was first there in the 80&...

1911/China/English/Republican/Revolution

Sun Yat-sen: If only a Revolution -were- like a dinner party

Posted on March 19, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Livebloging 1911 Someone once said “A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined...

anniversaries/China/English/Republican/Revolution

Revolt in Canton

Posted on March 6, 2011 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Live-blogging 1911 Live-blogging is (for historians) the process of blogging about something in the past as if it was happening in the present. Since this is th...

China/China-U.S./English/Intellectual/Republican

"China and Christianity": Hu Shi's 1927 View of Nationalism and Rationalism

Posted on July 17, 2010 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

Over at the invaluable Danwei,  Julian Smisek’s “Hu Shi, missionaries, and women’s rights” (July 15, 2010) does a valuable service in tr...

China/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Public History/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Private views of Chinese history

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Recently I went to the Jianchuan museums, which are in Anren, just outside Chengdu. It is an interesting place first because it is huge, financed by mogul Fan J...

China/Current Events/Economics/Republican

Knitting with steel

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

NYT reports (via CDT) that China is offering to help California build a high-speed rail network. The Times’ take is that the worm has certainly turned if ...

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...

Authors/China/English/Republican/Teaching

Education in pictures

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As we are at mid-semester I thought it would be a nice time to think about Education, with a little help from Feng Zikai, Republican China’s best-known ca...

Archaeology/China/Republican

Indiana Jones -Busted

Posted on September 22, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

The people in the reading room at Shaanxi Provincial Archives are really nice and helpful and professional. Unlike some archives they will let you look at thing...

China/Current Events/Education/English/General/Republican

ASPAC Blogging: Change in Rural China

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I heard a few China papers at ASPAC and, though they weren’t all on one panel, they might well have been, because they all dealt with the rural response t...

China/Current Events/English/Historiography/Republican

Tehran, Tiananmen, Taiwan?

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

There was a post up, briefly, At Edge of the American West Dana captured some of the emerging themes of the discussion [link added] on Iranian democracy, includ...

Books/China/China-U.S./Civil War/English/Republican

A sinologist in Iraq

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Graham Peck’s Two Kinds of Time has been re-issued. This is good news for everyone, and especially for those of us who got a copy for Christmas. (Thanks S...

China/Civil War/Libraries/Newspapers/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Newspaper Digitization at Shandong Provincial Library

Posted on November 17, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

I am currently spending my days at a microfilm machine in the basement of Shandong Provincial library, looking through old wartime newspapers from occupied and ...

China/English/Labor/Republican

Chinese in the Great War

Posted on November 11, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As it is 11/11 Blood and Treasure has a nice post up on Chinese laborers along with a link with lots of great pics. B&T suggests that Chinese laborers in th...

China/Republican/Taiwan

Corruption and the Use of Technical Experts in Taiwan 1946

Posted on July 27, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Corruption was one of the biggest target of complaints by supporters and sworn enemies of the Chinese republic in wartime and early postwar China. This was also...

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