The Jiankang Empire
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...
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How to start the semester? Use a textbook, Luke
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...
Taisho Project assessment
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...
Ask Historians!
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...
Syllabus Blogging for Spring 2022
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...
Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎
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...
Syllabus blogging HIST 437 Modern Japan and the Taisho project
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...
Teaching East Asia In the Humanities
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...
The economics of maize
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...
Korean social history through yadam
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...
The Songs of Chu
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...
Student Handbook for Fall 2020 – MO3055 The History of History in East Asia
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...
Syllabus blogging for Fall 2020 HIST 206 History of East Asia
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...
Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911
This is an image I use in class, from Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China New York: Facts on File, 1983. p.158. This has some good images i...
Iron Man Wang
For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...