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Ask Historians!

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Cultural/Culture/Guides/Japanese/Public History/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

A brief note on Google Culture

Posted on January 20, 2018 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Google Culture is apparently producing some original content: “A brief history of Kimono” https://shinpaideshou.wordpress.com/2018/01/19/fun-link-fr...

Libraries/Tang/Tibet/Translation/Web Sites

Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Aviation/Culture/Sino-Japanese Wars/visual culture/Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Patriotic, airminded, Mahjong

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Web Sites/Web Sites and Resources

Digital Sinology

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Communism/Political/Web Sites

Confucianism Today

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

Academia/Blog Carnival/General/Japan/Web Sites

Twitterstorian Anniversary

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

Academia/Korea/North Korea/US-Korea/Web Sites

The North Flank Guard

Posted on December 9, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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 ...

Guides/Historiography/Web Sites

Frog in a Well Guides: A Basic Guide to Resources on Japanese Colonialism

Posted on April 11, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 1 Comment

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...

Archives/Web Sites

Modern Digital Library vs Google Books

Posted on March 18, 2010 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

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...

Korea/Libraries/Web Sites

Now in Firefox: Korean Newspapers at the National Library

Posted on November 11, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

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!...

China-Japan/Web Sites

Japan’s Embassies to the Tang and Ming

Posted on October 13, 2009 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The newly relaunched Sino-Japanese Studies open access journal is coming along nicely with a selection of articles and translations, including many translated c...

Academia/bibliography/General/Historiography/Korea/Textbooks/Web Sites

Once more, dear friends, into the breach….

Posted on August 28, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

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...

Academia/Archives/Art/Cultural/General/Historiography/Japan/Maps/Museums/Teaching/Web Sites

Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scannin...

Archives/Current/Recent Events/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Web Sites

Dangerous Data

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

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...

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