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Japan/Taiwan/Textbooks

A Child’s Guide to Japanese Empire

Posted on June 7, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 4 Comments

I recently had the pleasure of browsing the 1936 edition of a most interesting children’s almanac or encyclopedia called the Gakuyū Nenkan (学友年鑑 School fr...

Academia/Historiography/Pedagogy/Textbooks/Theory

Why Read Wineburg?

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Like a lot of people, I got my copy of Sam Wineburg’s new book Why Study History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) [University of Chicago Press, 201...

Literature/Qing/Teaching/Textbooks/Translation

Shen Fu vs. Zhang Daye

Posted on November 23, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

One thing I always have to do as a teacher is figure out what books to assign. Since I always find this hard to do, I thought I would think it out in terms of M...

Christianity/Frog in A Well/Historical analogies/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Religion/Textbooks

Tonghak and Taiping

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheist...

Academia/bibliography/General/Historiography/Korea/Textbooks/Web Sites

Once more, dear friends, into the breach….

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

In my first post here I said that I was going to be teaching a Korean history course for the first time: I lied. Or rather, I was scheduled to teach it, but the...

Colonial/Korea/Literature/Memory/Nationalism/Textbooks

Remixing Tagore

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Owen / 4 Comments

This story in the Korea Times about Rabrindranath Tagore’s poem ‘The Lamp of the East’ caught my eye. In the South Korean nationalist imaginat...

Historiography/Korea/Politics/Textbooks

Orthodoxy, or more revisionism? (History news round up II)

Posted on January 10, 2007 by Owen / 7 Comments

Time for part two of my history news round up. Another big history-related story toward the end of last year concerned a proposed new rightwing history textbook...

General/Intellectual/Politics/Textbooks

History, or politics by other means

Posted on January 22, 2006 by noja / 10 Comments

I would like to share my musings and solicit opinions on one issue I always was interested in – namely, to what degree the ways in which states attempt to...

bibliography/Books and Articles/Intellectual/Korea/Late Chosŏn/Textbooks

‘An Elementary Reader for Citizens’ (國民小學讀本)

Posted on January 13, 2006 by Owen / 16 Comments

At my own blog I’ve been writing a series of posts about some interesting old Korean books I’ve come across in the library of the School of Oriental and African...

Colonial/Korea/Korea-Japan/Nationalism/Textbooks

Japanese teacher disciplined for opposing nationalist textbooks

Posted on November 24, 2005 by Owen / 31 Comments

I wonder whether anyone else has seen this article from the Christian Science Monitor, which I picked up via the Marmot’s Hole and Far Outliers. It concer...

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