Song – Frog in a Well

Understanding China Through Comics

Posted on August 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The third volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out, and it is good. In my previous reviews I talked about how well the books explained Chinese histor...

Books/China/English/Song/War

Professors as booty

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

I have been reading Patricia Ebrey’s new book on the Song emperor Huizong. For those of you who don’t know him he known for being the most artistica...

China/English/Song/Teaching

Guest Blogger- Ou-yang Hsiu

Posted on March 6, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Lots of bits of Chinese prose would make great blog entries. (A blog is basically a biji, more or less) Plus, they make great things to teach from. So, if any o...

China/Mongols and Mongolia/Song/Teaching

Holiday reading: Murder, treachery and genocide

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

As I am half-heartedly getting ready for the Spring I am putting together some readings for my students. What survey would be complete without a chunk from the ...

China/English/Song

Obama for Minister of the Left

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Some historians have gone so far as to endorse Barak Obama for the office of President of the United States. Lots of people who seem to have very little affinit...

Books/China/Classics/English/General/Historiography/Song/Teaching

Lumpy Chinese History

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

There are a few places to go for archived syllabi — H-Net, ExEAS, I had a printed collection at one point, as well, then there’s the GMU Syllabus Fi...

China/English/Historiography/Intellectual/Song

Cheng-Zhu or Chengs v. Zhu?

Posted on December 10, 2005 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I didn’t make a big thing of it in class, and nobody seems to have noticed the discrepancy, but there’s something of a disparity between my World Hi...