Syllabus blogging for Spring 2014-1
Today is October 10, which is both an important day in Chinese history and also means that I am late in getting in my book orders for Spring. In the past I have...
Category: Teaching
Kids nowadays…
Need to read more Marx. Well, maybe they don’t, but it would make my job easier. I did a lot of Marx in my undergraduate days at Northern Illinois Univers...
Mixing water with water
Here is a dialogue (from the Zuozhuan) I used in class this week. The Duke declares “It is Ju alone who is in harmony with me.” Yanzi replied, “Ju is in f...
Essays (with fewer than 8 legs)
One book that most people here who teach the methods course for majors use is Benjamin’s A Student’s Guide to History. It covers most of the stuff y...
Final Syllabus blogging
Well, as I predicted I got my syllabai done too late to post them and get helpful suggestions, other than HIST 200, where I did get (and use) some good ideas.1 ...
The Boxer Uprising and historical method -Syllabus blogging
There is something of a tradition here at the Frog of posting our syllabai for upcoming courses and asking for suggestions. This summer I promised myself that I...
Chinese youth defending their rights
My historical methods course for the Fall will be looking at the Boxers, and I have been reading Jane Elliott’s book on the Boxers.1 It’s a really i...
Fire and protest in China
The Atlantic has a nice set of pictures of the Great Wall up, for your teaching pleasure. The one I found most interesting is this. Is the Great Wall on fire? W...
Life imitates The Office
As someone who is a member of an academic department and of two University-wide committees I think a lot about bureaucracy. Since I am teaching Modern China thi...
Syllabus blogging
There is something of a tradition here of posting draft syllabi and asking for advice. It’s too late for advice to do me any good (although criticism alwa...
China on the move
I found a nice paper on migration inside China from Vox 1 They look at migrations inside China, and find a lot of things that you would expect. Network effects ...
Teachers and National Ideologies
I have been collecting and reading various materials that could potentially reveal how people lived in rural villages between the 1910s and 1940s. Village teach...
China Postcards
Are you keeping up with China Postcards on Flikr? You should be, as he is posting an amazing collection of old cards, press photos and other stuff. Above we hav...