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Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎

Posted on October 15, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Particularly as I work on the visual culture of aviation (one of my current projects) I am getting both encouraged and discouraged about the state of sources in...

Art/Gender/visual culture

Art and status and women and mirrors and…

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image from the back of a Song dynasty mirror in the collection of Martin J. Powers. As he describes it One [woman], on the right, tends a child and s...

Literature/Qing/visual culture

Dress and identity in the Qing

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Guojun Wang’s Staging Personhood: Costuming in Early Qing Drama. I am not particularly a student of drama, or of costume, but in the T...

Current Events/Current/Recent Events/Hong Kong/Politics/Popular Culture/visual culture

Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

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/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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

Japan/Journalism & Mass Media/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/War

Art and War in Modern Japan

Posted on October 30, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you teach Modern Japan you are probably used to having lots of cool pictures to show your students. You probably pinch a lot of them from the MIT Visualizing...

Nationalism/Republican/visual culture

Chiang Kai-shek, Enemy of the People

Posted on March 5, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have found and interesting source. Dr Jeremy Taylor at the Department of History, University of Nottingham has a site entitled ‘Enemy of the People̵...

Politics/Popular Culture/Republican/Social History/visual culture

Chinese Manhua and social criticism

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been preparing a paper for a conference here at IUP, but since the conference is postponed as we are on strike I thought I would share some of it with yo...

Aviation/Japan/visual culture/War

Where’s my Flying Imperialism?

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

While googling around looking for advertising posters for Asian airlines of the 20’s and 30’s I found this. It is from a series of prints showing the Japanese e...

Aviation/Republican/visual culture

Multi-cultural Chiang Kai-shek

Posted on July 23, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a nice picture of Chiang Kai-shek and his government’s outreach to minority nationalities. It comes from 蒙藏月報1935,3(6) (Mongolia and Tibet Monthly...

Aviation/visual culture/War

Chinese government graphics

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One thing that you notice when you look at Chinese government reports and such from the 20’s 30’s and 40’s is how amazing the graphics are. I ...

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