Donald McGill looks at China
As readers of Orwell know, the British of the interwar period were fond of buying comic and risque postcards while on seaside vacations, and Donald McGill was t...
Category: visual culture
Spring is here
A beautiful Spring day. What could be better on a day like this than grading papers? Cubs lost the opener 16-5. Spring really is here
Revolution in pictures
Here, from Stapleton’s Civilizing Chengdu is Yang Wei, Chinese Revolutionary, in prison, November 25, 1911. Below is a picture of Yang as superintendent o...
Oh Hell
It occurred to me that some of our readers may also have occasion to teach about Chinese conceptions of the afterlife, and specifically Chinese Hell. I got some...
Common culture
China Gateway has some pictures, with translation, from The Dianshizhai Pictorial the famous late 19th century Shanghai illustrated paper. I say famous because ...
China at War
Something cool via Wikipedia. A film of a naval engagement in the First Sino-Japanese war. It comes from a Japanese site, and I’m not sure of the provenan...
Images of China
BibliOddyssey has a nice post up with cool pictures from the World Digital Library. The site has images from all over the world, and a really neat interface. Th...
Mysteries of History (transportation division)
Here is a bit of a puzzle for our readers to clear up. A while back I pointed at a nice collection of 17th Century Dutch pictures of Japan. Jonathan Dresner was...
China and the atom bomb
How is “common knowledge” different in China than elsewhere? At present of course things are increasingly the same, but that is due in part to years...
Sleeping Chinese
A whole website full of picture of Sleeping Chinese I found it via Fallows, who adds a caveat (specifically for Chinese readers) that he is not trying to call ...
Virtual Forbidden City
Imagethief has been discussing the Virtual Forbidden City. Basically this is something that looks a lot like a Second Life site but you have to download the who...
Pictures of China
Opium burning, 1917-1919. Beijing Duke university has put the entire Sidney Gamble archive on-line. Some of these have been published already (Gamble is pretty ...
Are the Chinese fascists?
Jed Perl has a piece up attacking Chinese art at TNR. As any number of people have pointed out Contemporary Chinese ArtTM is booming. For Perl, however, it̵...
Pigs Again: Li Shizhen's Ming Dynasty Map
After my posting last year of “Pigs. Shit, and Chinese History,” Sigrid Schmalzer was kind enough to share this map which she drew based on the work...
Show me the money
From the Times via CDT an article about a group of Chinese intellectuals who are asking for some new people to be put on Chinese currency. This is actually a bi...