Corruption and the Use of Technical Experts in Taiwan 1946
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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Red Star Over Edgar Snow
Edgar Snow’s birthday is sometime this week but they can’t agree on which day it is. The 1972 obituary in the omniscient NY Times had it as July 19, 1905, as do...
Between Nanjing and Chongqing
I posted a piece on Asia Media (July 10 2008) which reviews Steve MacKinnon’s new book, Wuhan, 1938: War, Refugees, and the Making of Modern China (Univer...
You lost to a girl?
Reading through 中华民国文化史 (Cultural History of the Chinese Republic)1 I found something interesting in the section on 国术. 国术 is a term for what today would be cal...
It's the shoes
For people who have read Sherman Cochran it is not news that Chinese merchants developed brand names and consumers developed brand loyalty. Cochran mostly focus...
Foreign influence on China's revolution
I found this picture on Southeast Asia Visions1 It is from Siam and China by Besso, Salvatore (1914) I was a bit confused about what it was showing. Surely Marc...
Show me the money
From the Times via CDT an article about a group of Chinese intellectuals who are asking for some new people to be put on Chinese currency. This is actually a bi...
The end of polygamy in China
As some of our American readers may know the California Supreme Court has recently ruled that men and men in California can get married. This has led a number o...
1911 in pictures
Via BibliOdyssey an exhibition of the prints of the 1911 revolution from Princeton. The prints are great, if a little small. One thing that struck me was the di...
poor peasants
In Modern China class we will be talking about Communists and their analysis of China’s social classes. What is a poor peasant? I will give them the stand...
Shanghai and Modernity
I am currently working on a paper about Shanghai and modernity – obviously a lot of work has been done on that from the perspective of Chinese modernity b...
Racial harmony in China's North-East
In honor of Black History Month I thought I would post something on W.E.B. Dubois and China. I knew that DuBois had dabbled in almost every radical movement ima...
Taiwanese modernity
One of my colleagues asked me a question about Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times. For those of you who have not seen it, it is a set of three love stories all...
Germans and China
I have been reading Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of Total War in Imperial Germany Cornell, 20051 I was mainly in...
The crucibe of Revolution
One of the nice thing about studying modern Chinese history is that Chinese states have gone to gone to great lengths to collect oral histories and other accoun...