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Category: War

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...

Archives/Sino-Japanese Wars/War/Web Sites and Resources

China-Burma-India and popular history sources

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Looking for information on the American involvement in China in World War Two? Not too long ago that would have been the last thing anyone who did serious China...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

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/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 ...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Military/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Bombing makes China modern

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One thing that made China truly modern in 1932 and then again in 1937 was that its cities were being bombed. Here is a cartoon by Sapajou, the White Russian car...

English/Foreign Views/Military/Science / Technology/US-Japan/War/昭和

Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

Books/China/Science and Technology/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

So that's why..

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I’ve been reading Peter Harmsen’s Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze. I like it a lot. Part of the reason I like it is that he is a journalist...

Books/China/English/Song/War

Professors as booty

Posted on January 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Patricia Ebrey’s new book on the Song emperor Huizong. For those of you who don’t know him he known for being the most artistica...

China/Journals/War

Universal Crime

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

All of you no doubt remember the drafts sections of his dissertation that Konrad posted here. Well, the first dead tree article out of the project is on newssta...

China/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/War

China becomes air-minded

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

So, I presented a paper at AAS in San Diego. Obviously the high points were meeting Konrad Lawson in person and eating really good fish tacos, so I could taunt ...

Current/Recent Events/Japan/Memory/US-Japan/War

Leave WWII out of it, OK?

Posted on January 19, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

There are good reasons to bring Japan into the gun control debate in the United States: the relative success of firearms regulation in Japan, the recent rise of...

China/China-Japan/Nationalism/War

Japanese Counter-Insurgency: Strategy or Tactic?

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Robert Farley’s article on Japan’s WWII Counter-Insurgency planning and implementation begs the question of whether COIN, as it’s called now, ...

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