War – Page 3 – Frog in a Well

In teaching the Tang dynasty one thing I like to talk about is the Princess of Pingyang, d. 623 who assisted her father the Tang founder Gaozu in setting up the...

General/Historiography/Japan/US-Japan/War/昭和

I hate this time of year

Posted on August 6, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

I still hate this time of year. Though the post and comments are of generally high quality, and the introduction of actual Japanese scholars and sources into th...

Academia/Archives/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Memory/photography/War

Archival Incidents, or What is it with Pictures?

Posted on May 14, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Sean Malloy has withdrawn the pictures once touted as “newly discovered” photographs of Hiroshima in the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing. ...

China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/General/Historiography/Japan/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Okinawa/War/昭和

How do you say “Fast of the First Born” in Japanese?

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I was thinking about whether to even attempt a contribution to the latest symposium on the role of historical animosities — and their appeasement — ...

China/Classics/English/Historiography/War

Perennial Question: Martial Arts in Chinese Militaries?

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I got a query from a reader which echoes a question I’ve gotten in class1 many times: With China’s long history of martial arts, how prominent can i...

China/English/Historiography/Republican/War

Germans and China

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I have been reading Isabel Hull’s Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of Total War in Imperial Germany Cornell, 20051 I was mainly in...

English/Japanese/Labor/War/昭和

佐々木啓 – 戦時期日本における国民徴用援護事業の展開過程

Posted on December 22, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

I just saw the table of contents for the December issue of 『歴史学研究』 and noticed that Frog in a Well contributor Sasaki Kei (see his postings here) has published ...

English/Film/Historiography/Japan/Okinawa/War/昭和

Worth Noting

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

John Dower kicks off the American Historical Association’s Perspectives newsletter’s new “Masters at the Movies” series with a review an...

China-Japan/Cultural/Diaspora/Historiography/Japan/Memory/War

Reminder to self: Complicating History

Posted on September 9, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

This is an old-fashioned web-log post: links that I don’t want to lose in the ether or the depths of my Eudora folders. Both are from Japan Focus, and bot...

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Useful, Inconvenient History

Posted on August 24, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

President Bush cited John Dower regarding the potential for post-war democratization. Bush was using Dower’s Embracing Defeat to ridicule those who believ...

Books/China/China-Japan/English/Republican/Sino-Japanese Wars/War

Poverty and Prison Camps

Posted on July 29, 2007 by K. M. Lawson / 6 Comments

I recently finished reading Crime, Punishment, and the Prison in Modern China, 1895-1949 by Frank Dikötter. You can find pictures from the book posted on his we...

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The Rice Bowl and the Bomb

Posted on July 23, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Japan Focus and the NYTimes seem to be in sync at the moment, with a spate of pieces on resurgent nationalism and Japanese war memory.1 Say what you like about ...