Chinese philosophy: The wild goose gradually draws near the tree
Update-The wild goose is getting closer to the tree Apparently we are experiencing a Chinese Philosophy Fever. The Atlantic has an article up on Michael Puett&#...
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When the Chinese went out for Jews
For the benefit of our Chinese readers, as well as anyone else who has not seen this excellent piece, I would like to introduce Scott Seligman’s “Th...
Names and Dates In English and Chinese
I recently discovered Beijing Time Machine, run by Jared Hall. His recent piece Time over Place: Naming Historical Events in Chinese (ironically, it is not dat...
Delicious spam
I got an e-mail from Online Colleges. It seems to be a semi-scam site that offers to connect you to on-line colleges without actually, from what I can tell, pro...
JOURNAL WATCH: H-DIPLO JOURNAL AND PERIODICAL REVIEW
A major problem nowadays is to somehow find that newly published article in a journal you don’t subscribe to – I miss enough articles in the journals I do subsc...
AAS Blogging: outsourced
I didn’t get to any China-specific panels at the AAS, but the good folks at China Beat have a few panel summaries worth taking a look at. You can find som...
Source: Chinese Canadian Newspapers
Historical sources of various kinds are making it online all the time. I recently came across a digital collection of Chinese newspapers from Canada available a...
Confucius through the ages
Although the revival of Confucius in China naturally tends to emphasize a timeless vision of an unchanging Sage and set of teachings, the 儒家 have actually chang...
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 ...
Harvard to Digitize Chinese Rare Book Collection
I just read on H-Asia that Harvard has announced last week that, in cooperation with the National Library of China, it will be scanning its 51,500 volumes of Ch...
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...
When America looked East (or maybe West)
Speechwars.com lets you see how many times American presidents have used various words in their State of the Union addresses. This is not a perfect representati...
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 ...
December History Carnival Posted
The December History Carnival is up, and it includes a few China bits. Even a few from elsewhere! Also lots of other neat stuff.