Syllabus blogging 3 –Modern China
Syllabus blogging 3 –Modern China Not as much to say about this. This is an upper-division course for majors and non-majors, and one I teach every few semesters...
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Drugs and Empires in Asia -More syllabus blogging
So, as I got some help last time I asked for advice on what to teach next semester, here is what I have for HIST 403 Drugs and Empires in Asia. This is a senior...
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...
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 ...