Conceptual art
Several generations later, in Zhao Mengfu’s “Twin Pines, Level Distance,” something new appears. No more realism; no more romanticism; in a sense, no mor...
Category: Web Sites and Resources
Resource on Chinese photography
Hunting leopards in Zhejiang, 1935 I’ve been doing a bit of photo and video stuff lately, and one site that has been very helpful is Thomas Hahn’s ...
First, kill all the Legalists
Sam at Useless Tree draws our attention to a really interesting website called 新法家(in English the New Legalist) I’m not quite sure who these people are, b...
It's not history, but it's not bad
Here at Frog in a Well we have always prided ourselves on being the best salientian group blog on Chinese history. While we are still the undisputed masters of ...
Miss Taiwan?
A hunting parting in Xinzhu, 1935 A great new resource provided by Paul Barclay of Lafayette College. They have digitized a great collection of photos of...
Comparing Taiwan to ….
I’m going to be teaching my 20th century China class for the second time in the Spring, and I still haven’t figured out how to handle Taiwan to my s...
Ding Mocun, Lung Ying-tai and Lust, Caution
Ang Lee‘s (李安) new movie Lust, Caution (色，戒) is apparently being released later this week in the United States. The movie won a Golden Lion at the Venice ...
Taiwan gained and lost
Japan (ahem) Focus has a great excerpt from MIT’s Emma J. Teng’s Taiwan’s Imagined Geography: Chinese Colonial Travel Writing, 1683–1895 up this wee...
More technological coolness
This is probably not news to many of our readers, but you can now download the entire 1941 animated film Princess Iron Fan from Internet Archive. It is p...
China Historical GIS Data Sets Project Available
There was an announcement on H-Asia which might be of interest to historians and researchers that appreciate the power of GIS geographic information data. This ...
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Asian History News Dump, March 2007
This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...
Sino-Japanese Studies Journal Online
I am happy to announce the completion of a project that I have been working on in my spare time for about a month now: the digitization of the Sino-Japanese Stu...
Cinderella, dressed in yellow, went to Scotland and kissed a fellow
Via Cliopatria, a website with Scottish broadsides from 1810-1830. One is obviously satirical, announcing the arrival of a Chinese doctor Dr. Puff Stuff Sham Qu...
Used books online in China
The book markets and used bookstores of Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and pretty much everywhere in between; their dusty piles of colourful, frayed cultural revol...
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Chinese in Motion
Migration and identity are tough issues, particularly as our tendency towards literalism (you thought we were all postmodernists? Not even close.) with regard t...