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You would probably not think of Reddit as the best place to go for historical knowledge. For those of you who don’t know it, Reddit is the place where any...
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Sources in the digital age -馬馬虎虎
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...
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...
China-Burma-India and popular history sources
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...
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...
I would totally buy this, and so would you.
Chinese Posters sells copies of some of its stuff, but not of this. “To love the country one must first know its history”1 This would look perfect i...
The internet is awesome-Chinese history in film version
British Pathé has put some 80,000 of their old newsreels on YouTube. This is a massive treasure trove of cool stuff, and the many hours I will spend looking at...
Digital History and teaching
Yoni Applebaum has apparently taken a break from filming The Matrix 4 to record a clip on The Historian in The Digital Age. For those of you don’t know hi...
I made tea eggs today
Apparently this makes me both a multi-millionaire and part of cross-straits relations. I have not kept up as much as I should with the current Taiwan protests, ...
Contradictions among the critics
The Maoist International Movement’s movie archives are on-line. They are really fun. You feel kind of silly when you realize that you have never thought o...
When China was a Great Power
Recently I was Google-ing to find a picture of the statue of Liang Qichao that is, I think, in his hometown. No better way to show that someone made it big than...
Pan-Asianism
Hey, I published something! It is a course reader entitled “Japan, China and Pan-Asianism” I did not write much of it, but it does have my name on it. The reaso...
Happy birthday Dunhuang Project
Did you know that this is the 20th anniversary of the International Dunhuang Project? Neither did I. They grow up so quick these international scholarly project...
說曹操，曹操到
Now is the time in my Early China class when I get to the Three Kingdoms. This is usually a time some of the students have been waiting for, since they know the...