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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...

1911/Maps/Republican/Revolution/Teaching

Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

Gender/Japan/Teaching

Opening vignettes on Tokugawa prostitutes

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I never really responded to Jonathan’s post on opening vignettes as pedagogy, but I do like using them. In fact, I will be using a couple Monday. Sometime...

Chinese/Language/Teaching

Classical Chinese for Everyone

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Looking for a fun book? Look no further! Bryan Van Norden’s Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners is it. This is a book for anyon...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Books/Han Dynasty/Philosophy/Teaching

Huainanzi and teaching Early China

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

I really liked using Huainanzi in my upper-division Early China class this semester.  I have a habit of switching books a lot in all my classes, in part because...

Books/Books and Articles/China/Teaching/visual culture

Teaching with old photographs

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One thing that I have started teaching with this semester is Ed Krebs and Hanchao Lu, eds., China in Family Photographs: A Peoples History of Revolution and Eve...

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...

1911/Teaching/visual culture

Visual Shanghai

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I went to the Shanghai History Museum today and got some nice teaching-related images. Some of them are useful, but not that exciting, like a nice rickshaw and ...

Japan/Literature/Religion/Teaching

Was Hirata Atsutane Japan’s first Science Fiction writer?

Posted on May 23, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Maybe. Well, sort of. It kind of depends on how you define things. Hirata Atsutane (1776-1843) was one of the key thinkers and popularizers of Japanese Nativism...

Books/Japan/Popular Culture/Teaching/visual culture

Pan-Asian Hell

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

People like Hell. Most religions seem to have one, and depicting it is a classic way of instructing the masses about the wages of sin. Reproducing these images ...

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