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Category: Tang

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Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you teach about Dunhuang, or the Tang dynasty, or inter-cultural contact, or just like to read interesting things, you should be aware of the Early Tibet web...

Historiography/Literature/Tang

Wang Wei and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Posted on April 11, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Sarah M. Allen’s Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China.  One of the main texts she is look...

China/English/Literature/Tang/Teaching

Confucius does Powerpoint

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

 There is an old Chinese story concerning three young men who are too lazy to study. Their father builds them a hut on a mountain figuring that isolation will h...

Books/China/Public History/Tang/visual culture

China in Cartoons II

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

The second volume of Understanding China Through Comics is out.1 I ‘reviewed‘ the first volume and concluded that Jing Liu is no Larry Gonick, but i...

China/Current Events/Tang

Restoring China's past glory

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Via CDT a report on gated communities for the poor outside Beijing. In theory the purpose is to protect residents from crime, but of course the main goal is to ...

China/Current Events/English/Public History/Religion/Tang

What do you really think Mr. Jiang?

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Chinese museums are one of the best places to look at the changing interpretation of historical figures and events. Last weekend I went to Famen temple outside ...

Archaeology/China/Tang

Old pots

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Rachel at AHC has a nice post up on her visit to the Hua Song Museum in Singapore, and what they are doing with one of the largerst marine archeology finds ever...

China/English/Gender/Tang/War

The Lady's Army

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

In teaching the Tang dynasty one thing I like to talk about is the Princess of Pingyang, d. 623 who assisted her father the Tang founder Gaozu in setting up the...

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