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Teaching

Group research assignments

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Final report on group research assignment. It  seems to have gone pretty well. Of the 22 students who finished the class 14 did the survey about it (anonymous, ...

1970s/Communism/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Poetry/Teaching/Translation

Teaching the death of Mao Zedong

Posted on May 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

If you ever have to teach about the end of Maoism, Ai Qing‘s poem “On the Crest of a Wave” is a good thing to use. Ai was one of China’s...

Medieval/Teaching

The Jiankang Empire

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I don’t usually post book reviews here, and this is not really a book review, but I got a lot out of Andrew Chittick’s new book The Jiankang Empire in Chinese a...

Teaching

How to start the semester? Use a textbook, Luke

Posted on January 13, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Covid willing and the creek don’t rise we will start the semester in person four days from now. One problem I always have will upper-level Asian history c...

Japan/Teaching

Taisho Project assessment

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

The project is here I thought it went pretty well, although there are some things I need to work on. I had the students do a survey about it, and most of them f...

Teaching/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Ask Historians!

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

You would probably not think of Reddit as the best place to go for historical knowledge. For those of you who don’t know it, Reddit is the place where any...

Syllabi/Teaching

Syllabus Blogging for Spring 2022

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As in the past, I need to order books for classes, and more generally think about what I will be doing next semester, so as always I am posting here.  Posting t...

Archives/Teaching/visual culture/Web Sites and Resources

Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Particularly as I work on the visual culture of aviation (one of my current projects) I am getting both encouraged and discouraged about the state of sources in...

Japan/Syllabi/Teaching

Syllabus blogging HIST 437 Modern Japan and the Taisho project

Posted on June 4, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Update Here is the more or less final draft   So, a bit late,but some syllabus blogging for Fall. At present this is supposed to be an in-person class. Thi...

Syllabi/Teaching

Teaching East Asia ​In the Humanities

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This looks like a cool conference, at least till the last panel. Teaching East Asia In the Humanities April 24-25, 2021 https://www.teachinghumanities.com/confe...

Economics/Teaching

The economics of maize

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here, for your teaching pleasure, is a long quote on the value of corn (maize) in China. I often mention in class that New World crops were economically valuabl...

Korea/Literature/Teaching/Translation

Korean social history through yadam

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I was recently sent a copy of Si Nae Park The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia U.P., 2020) It̵...

Literature/Poetry/Teaching

The Songs of Chu

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Gopal Suku’s new translation of Qu Yuan’s The Songs of Chu. I am not qualified to speak about it as a scholarly tran...

Syllabi/Teaching

Student Handbook for Fall 2020 – MO3055 The History of History in East Asia

Posted on June 27, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Inspired by Alan’s syllabus blogging for his History of East Asia class, I thought I would contribute my own new fall offering. Teaching in Scotland at my...

Teaching

Syllabus blogging for Fall 2020 HIST 206 History of East Asia

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. Fall semester will be a bit different. We will be doing hybrid (well, actually Ha...

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