Who were the people in wartime China?
Just for fun, here is a table I found of those who jumped from the parachute tower in Chongqing between April of 1942 and April 1943. I suppose I should open wi...
Category: Science / Technology
Radio in China
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...
Aviation and Asian Modernity 1900–1950
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...
Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs
It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...
Politics of Health / Medicine, post 1945
I’ve been thinking again about the broader issue of beginning to approach the South Korean post-colonial state and post-1945 medicine, recognizing the imm...
Nuclear Power in Korea / Domestic and International
Just a quick note, even as the Japan situation continues to unfold, to recall that (1) the current ROK government wants to prioritize nuclear exports in the com...
South Korea and Thailand–(Comparative) Developmental Contexts
I’ve been playing with this image for quite some time now, and am still trying to build a “thick” context around it for a piece that should (...
Generating Power–Electric, hydroelectric, thermal (coal), atomic
I’m back once again to this question of electricity and power in its various forms, as I think the long-term story of generating power in NE Asia (1880...