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Category: Sino-Japanese Wars

Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/War

Art and War in Modern Japan

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you teach Modern Japan you are probably used to having lots of cool pictures to show your students. You probably pinch a lot of them from the MIT Visualizing...

Archives/Sino-Japanese Wars/War/Web Sites and Resources

China-Burma-India and popular history sources

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Looking for information on the American involvement in China in World War Two? Not too long ago that would have been the last thing anyone who did serious China...

Aviation/Culture/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...

Aviation/Gender/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Oriental Women

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I have been reading about Lee Ya-Ching, who is billed (incorrectly) by Wikipedia as the “First Chinese civilian aviator.” In her various tours of No...

Military/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Bombing makes China modern

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One thing that made China truly modern in 1932 and then again in 1937 was that its cities were being bombed. Here is a cartoon by Sapajou, the White Russian car...

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...

China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/War

China becomes air-minded

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

So, I presented a paper at AAS in San Diego. Obviously the high points were meeting Konrad Lawson in person and eating really good fish tacos, so I could taunt ...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Are Japanese people evil?

Posted on January 27, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

There has been some commentary, both on well-known blogs and obscure ones on Robert Farley’s Diplomat article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and im...

Books/China/China-Japan/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Japanese views of China

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

December 13 seems as good a day as any to talk about Japanese imperialism. One of the books I taught this semester was Ishikawa Tatsuzo Soldiers Alive.1 It̵...

China/English/Religion/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture

Very superstitious

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Above is a charm carried by a Chinese soldier in 1938, re-printed in the journal Youth Front in 1938. It seems to be a Communist publication, although this bein...

China/Labor/Sino-Japanese Wars/Social History/visual culture

Celebrate the working class

Posted on September 3, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, today is Labor Day in the U.S.A., which means that you can celebrate the achievements of the working class without being a Communist. The rest of the world,...

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&...

China/English/Sino-Japanese Wars

War cartoons

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I’ve been doing a class that deals with cartoons, and Feng Zikai is a major part of it One problem with teaching popular art is that a lot of the work of ...

China/Language/Sino-Japanese Wars

Sweaty Traitors – Character Simplifications That Just Weren't Meant to Be

Posted on July 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 8 Comments

I had an old instructor of Chinese language many years ago who took every opportunity to pick fun at the evil Reds on the mainland. I think he fled China in 194...

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...

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