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Thanksgiving Vacation and Homework

Posted on December 3, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Over Thanksgiving weekend, my family and I went over to the Waikoloa Hilton. My son loves the boats and trams, and there’s nothing like watching dolphins ...

English/General/Japan/Teaching

Love and Inspiration

Posted on November 30, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

My aunt, Alice Schlossberg, passed away on Sunday. She was the first Asianist and history teacher in my family, and I will miss her terribly. Perhaps my first r...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/General/Historiography/Teaching

Military history MIA? WIA? KIA?

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

There has been a good deal of discussion on Cliopatria and elsewhere on the topic of military history. This discussion was sparked off by a piece in the Nationa...

English/Gender/Japan/Teaching/昭和

Arita Drug & Rubber Goods, Kobe?

Posted on October 5, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 10 Comments

An astute student in my Japanese Women class sent me this link [very adult content] with the thought that I might use it…. to stimulate…. class disc...

China/General/Teaching/visual culture

Acting quickly, he formed a committee to study the issue

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via Crooked Timber, an adaptation of Little Sisters of the Grasslands that will appeal to anyone who likes Maoist kitsh, or who works in an American university,...

Japan/Teaching/明治

Escaping the Binaries of Meiji Modernity

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Morgan Pitelka / 2 Comments

I gave a talk at the “Promoting and Resisting Westernization in Meiji Japan” symposium this past weekend at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. The sy...

China/Education/General/Post-Mao/Teaching

Braudel in Shanghai

Posted on September 5, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There has been a good deal of comment on Chinese history textbook revisions of late. Mao is gone! For foreigners who can only name one Chinese historical figure...

Academia/Archaeology/Art/Blog Carnival/Current/Recent Events/English/Gender/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Museums/Nationalism/Politics/Religion/Teaching

History Carnival #38

Posted on September 1, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 9 Comments

“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...

Books/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Teaching

Creating East Asia

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

东亚三国的近现代史 A History of Modern and Contemporary East Asia is a book that got a lot of press when it first came out, since it was written by a team of scholars fr...

China/English/General/Teaching/Web Sites and Resources

How much do your students remember?

Posted on May 26, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I’m looking over the Condensed History of China (Thanks, Simon) and thinking to myself “yeah, it’s brutally short, but if my students remember...

Books/China/English/Historiography/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Post-Mao/Teaching

Bashing Mao Bashing

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 6 Comments

My one regret, really, of not going to the AAS this year, was that I could not go to the 20th Century China Forum round table on Chang and Halliday’s Mao:...

Books/China/China-Japan/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Teaching

Denis Twitchett and the Cambridge Histories

Posted on March 22, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Denis Twitchett, author of the groundbreaking Financial Administration Under the T’ang Dynasty and a strong guiding force behind the Cambridge History ser...

China/General/Teaching

Nomads and China

Posted on January 29, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As the final installment in our exciting series of syllabus posts I present my last class for the semester, Nomadic Empires and China It is a topics class, so i...

China/General/Teaching

Rice Paddies

Posted on January 16, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Following Jonathan’s lead, here is my syllabus for History of East Asia, more commonly known as Rice Paddies. I suppose the first question to answer is wh...

Books/China/English/General/Historiography/Ming/Teaching

Menzies and the problem of the "Smoking Gun" document

Posted on January 14, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 41 Comments

Menzies’ thesis won’t die. Just when it seemed to be fading out (unless Menzies’ argument about Mongol exploration is really his next focus), ...

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