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Category: Social History

Philosophy/Social History/Teaching

Who are the shi?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since I am teaching Early China this semester, I am drawing from Yuri Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Period ...

Gender/Qing/Republican/Social History/Teaching

Did Chinese women go to opium dens?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since someone asked me if Qing women went to opium dens, I thought I would answer and put up some of my evidence. Short answer – I don’t think so, a...

Politics/Popular Culture/Republican/Social History/visual culture

Chinese Manhua and social criticism

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

Art/Japan/Social History/Teaching/visual culture

Pictures of Japan

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you teach about Japan? If so you might want to check out the Toshidma Gallery. Teaching is always better with pictures, and if you do Japan you are probably ...

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/English/Qing/Social History/Teaching

Life imitates The Office

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As someone who is a member of an academic department and of two University-wide committees I think a lot about bureaucracy. Since I am teaching Modern China thi...

Asian American/China/Class/Culture/English/Social History

From all the junks, the one I need more is music

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Slate has a piece up on the Asian-ization of Western classical music. It’s more historically informed than you might think for a Slate piece, although it ...

Articles/China/Countryside/Japan/Ming/Pigs/Social History/visual culture

Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map

Posted on July 2, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...

China/Social History/Taiwan/Web Sites and Resources

Miss Taiwan?

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

A hunting parting in Xinzhu, 1935   A great new resource provided by Paul Barclay of Lafayette College. They have digitized a great collection of photos of...

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...

Archaeology/China/Chinese/Social History

Han Dynasty Pig Sty-Latrine

Posted on February 1, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 0 Comment

Courtesy of the Minneapolis Museum of Art

Articles/China/Chinese/Countryside/Pigs/Republican/Social History

Pigs, Shit, and Chinese History, Or Happy Year of the Pig

Posted on January 28, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 14 Comments

The intriguing pig map in Alan Baumler’s post, “Pigs” (January 11) reminds us that 2007 is the Year of the Pig. Wikipedia informs us that a person born in the y...

China/English/General/Japan/Republican/Social History

Pigs

Posted on January 11, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

How many pigs were there in China during the warlord era? I came across the wonderful site Strange Maps, and one of their offerings was a 1922 map of world hog ...

China/Economics/General/Labor/Social History

Working like a slave

Posted on August 26, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

I have been to busy to post much of late, as I have been very busy. Not quite working like a slave however, as the slave contract below shows. I use this in cla...

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