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A brief note on Google Culture
Google Culture is apparently producing some original content: “A brief history of Kimono” https://shinpaideshou.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/fun-link-fr...
Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact
If you teach about Dunhuang, or the Tang dynasty, or inter-cultural contact, or just like to read interesting things, you should be aware of the Early Tibet web...
Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong
Via Peter Harmsen’s WW2 In China blog I found a link to this post from Mahjong Treasures. The post describes a mysterious Mahjong set that left China in t...
Digital Sinology
Looking for something fun to read? Shuge.org has a whole mess of interesting old Chinese books, all totally free to download. So if you want ethnography of mino...
Confucianism Today
Taisu Zhang has an interesting piece on China File analyzing the recent Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu paper on ideology in China. Zhang is trying to figure out why...
Twitterstorian Anniversary
As an historian, I consider anniversaries irrelevant. However, as a social function, naturally, they matter a great deal, and the internet itself moves so quick...
The North Flank Guard
In politics, a direct attack is not always the most effective. One way to proceed is to target someone or something that is seen to represent a more extreme, a ...
Frog in a Well Guides: A Basic Guide to Resources on Japanese Colonialism
Here at Frog in a Well we have attempted to occasionally go beyond our role as a publisher of three group weblogs on the history of East Asia. Though it still h...
Modern Digital Library vs Google Books
When the Japanese National Diet Library started putting Meiji period and Taishō period books online and fully viewable in their Modern Digital Library (近代デジタルライ...
Now in Firefox: Korean Newspapers at the National Library
I just heard from one of our fellow contributors here at Frog in a Well that the National Library of Korea now offers limited support for a variety of browsers!...
Japan’s Embassies to the Tang and Ming
The newly relaunched Sino-Japanese Studies open access journal is coming along nicely with a selection of articles and translations, including many translated c...
Once more, dear friends, into the breach….
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...
Dangerous Data
By now most of you have probably heard of the erasure of buraku — the segregated communities of Japanese outcastes — from Google Earth.1 The continu...