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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 ...

Literature/Teaching/Translation

Who likes short shorts?

Posted on April 20, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Mu Aili and Mike Smith’s Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text. The book is, as you might have g...

Japan/Teaching/江戸

Teaching Tokugawa math

Posted on March 4, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Do you teach Tokugawa Japan? If so you probably spend some time talking about the rise of popular education, the terakoya temple schools etc. I found a good boo...

Teaching/visual culture

Teaching images- Glimpses of Modern China

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you follow Glimpses of Modern China ( 秋海棠民國史地 ) on Facebook? You should, since they post all sorts of interesting images and videos you can teach with. Or th...

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