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Category: Revolution

Books/Diaspora/Historiography/India/International Affairs/Revolution

Can a historian malign a ruling race?

Posted on August 5, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

A book I have been reading for fun this summer is Tim Harper Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire. It is a history of the various ...

1911/China/Revolution

Wuhan on the Eve of a Revolution

Posted on March 1, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I stumbled across the American traveler William Edgar Geil’s Eighteen Capitals of China (1911). I wasn’t impressed. Even for its time, it is particu...

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...

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...

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...

Books/China/English/Republican/Revolution

Foreign influence on China's revolution

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

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...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Qing/Republican/Revolution/Web Sites and Resources

1911 in pictures

Posted on May 13, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

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...

China/Republican/Revolution/Taiwan

Taiwanese modernity

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

China/China-U.S./Countryside/Historiography/Revolution/Social History

When is a Farmer not a Farmer? When He’s Chinese: Then He’s A Peasant

Posted on February 25, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 36 Comments

After Mao Zedong died in 1976, they put his body on display in one of those see-through coffins which Lenin made popular. Shortly after, the NBC evening news co...

China/General/Republican/Revolution

Double Ten

Posted on October 7, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Coming soon is Double Ten, the anniversary of the Oct. 10, 1911 Wuhan revolt that led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the foundation of the Republic of ...

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