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Can you speak Chinese?

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

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Aviation/Science / Technology/Science and Technology

Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Hey look! Up in the sky! It’s …scholarship! Well, my bibliography on Asian aviation anyway. More importantly, it looks like the whole Oxford Bibliog...

Books/China/Science and Technology/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

So that's why..

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I’ve been reading Peter Harmsen’s Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. I like it a lot. Part of the reason I like it is that he is a journalist...

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...

China/Qing/Science and Technology/visual culture

City of big shoulders

Posted on November 10, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So I spent some time at the library going through 圖畫日報 Although it is not a paper that lasted long (1909-1910) there is lots of cool stuff here connected to the...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Science and Technology

History Carnival #84: After the Tweeting is Done

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I’m very pleased to be hosting my 6th History Carnival, and I thought it would be fun to extend the carnival into a new medium this time: I’ve spent...

Books/China/English/Science and Technology

China, where the future is already the past

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I have tried to stay off the subject of how the internet will change the world, since there is enough of that on the internet already. I was struck by this piec...

English/Foreign Views/General/globalization/Japan/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/US-Japan/昭和

Before the miniseries, there was….

Posted on June 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’m not sure when my family got this game, but I remember playing with it in the late 70s. Though Shogun is described as a “digital” game, the...

Archaeology/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Premodern/Science and Technology

Tomb Near Artifacts that Date to Himiko’s Purported Reign Dates Identified

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Am I the only person who had a bad reaction to the Tomb of legendary Japanese Queen Himiko found headlines I’ve been seeing? The article says Archaeologis...

China/Historiography/Intellectual/Science and Technology

Need a dissertation topic?

Posted on February 24, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There is a very interesting review of Simon Winchester’s Bomb, Book, and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China (sold in America as The Ma...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/Environment/Japan/Qing/Science and Technology

Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, p...

China/China-Russia/Current Events/English/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Science and Technology

Sino-Soviet Nuclear Collaboration Revisionism?

Posted on December 9, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In a review of Thomas C. Reed, and Danny B. Stillman‘s new book, The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its Proliferation, William Broad...

Academia/Current/Recent Events/Education/Japan/Media/Pedagogy/Science and Technology/Teaching

New Media and Japanese Studies

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 3 Comments

WARNING: those of you interested in Japanese studies but not in internet technologies, new media, and the whole question of how digital learning does or doesn&#...

Books/China/Current Events/Economics/English/Historiography/Qing/Science and Technology

Needling Needham

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

The Needham Question is hot, hot, hot! Thanks to Simon Winchester’s The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked t...

Academia/bibliography/Books and Articles/Diaspora/English/General/Japan/Science and Technology/US-Japan/明治

Wonders of Modern Life

Posted on April 25, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m pleased to announce the publication by Shinsensha of the translated version of Japanese Diasporas, ジャパニーズデイアスポラ, 足立伸子 (編著), including my article ...

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