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Category: Sino-Japanese Wars

China/Sino-Japanese Wars

Wartime Dog Killing Squads

Posted on March 1, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

The Chinese Communist campaign against animals that is most talked about is the Four Pests campaign of the late 1950s launched against various pests and sparrow...

Anecdotes/China/Sino-Japanese Wars

A Farmer Learns his Chinese Characters

Posted on December 30, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

I haven’t been making any substantial posts to Frog in a Well of late even though I have been buried in fascinating historical materials as I write my dis...

China/Countryside/Sino-Japanese Wars

Working to Protect Your Human Rights

Posted on February 4, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

In Communist controlled “liberated districts” of Japanese occupied China, your local treason elimination squad was directed to safeguard your human ...

China/Civil War/Libraries/Newspapers/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Newspaper Digitization at Shandong Provincial Library

Posted on November 17, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

I am currently spending my days at a microfilm machine in the basement of Shandong Provincial library, looking through old wartime newspapers from occupied and ...

Archives/China/China-Japan/Sino-Japanese Wars

Beware of Female Spies

Posted on August 22, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

I decided to bring you a little Friday night clipping from the archives where, as always, I have my eye open for treason and treachery: In the Chinese national ...

Books/China/China-Japan/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Between Nanjing and Chongqing

Posted on July 10, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

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...

China/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Stop malingering

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Some time ago Stefan Landsberger1 sent me some images of propaganda posters from the War with Japan. I have not blogged about them as yet due to laziness, but a...

China/China-Japan/Historiography/Journals/Sino-Japanese Wars

Eighth Route Army POW Policy

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Guest / 4 Comments

Frog in a Well welcomes a guest posting from Sayaka Chatani, who is a PhD student in the History Department of Columbia University. Her research interests are i...

China/China-Japan/Civil War/English/Sino-Japanese Wars/Taiwan

Yang Tianshi on the Chiang Kai-Shek Diaries

Posted on December 31, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Jonathan Benda reports on a talk by the historian Yang Tianshi on Chiang Kai-Shek’s diaries given at Tunghai university in Taiwan. Professor Yang is a ver...

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

The crucibe of Revolution

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

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

Our Japanese Comrades

Posted on September 28, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been paging through 抗战漫画 a book re-printing lots of wartime cartoons. Although some work has been done on these, one thing I have not seen commented ...

Authors/Books/China/English/Literature/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources

Ding Mocun, Lung Ying-tai and Lust, Caution

Posted on September 25, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 3 Comments

Ang Lee‘s (李安) new movie Lust, Caution (色,戒) is apparently being released later this week in the United States. The movie won a Golden Lion at the Venice ...

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

The Buddha goes to war

Posted on August 15, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Xue Yu’s new book Buddhism, War, and Nationalism: Chinese Monks in the Struggle against Japanese Aggressions, 1931-19451 is the first major work I have fo...

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

Poverty and Prison Camps

Posted on July 29, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

I recently finished reading Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949 by Frank Dikötter. You can find pictures from the book posted on his we...

China/China-Japan/Education/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars

Drop and give me twenty

Posted on June 20, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

While here in Shanghai I have been doing a bit of research. My new project is on 训练 and military training during the War of Resistance Against Japan, and in par...

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