{"id":5363,"date":"2007-02-04T02:33:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-04T07:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/japan\/2007\/02\/asian-history-carnival-11\/"},"modified":"2014-08-30T14:02:38","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T14:02:38","slug":"asian-history-carnival-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2007\/02\/asian-history-carnival-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian History Carnival #11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDave at Peking Duck<\/i> has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There was one, and only one, usable submission through blogcarnival.com:<\/p>\n

The Bizarre Jokester presents The Niihau Incident<\/a> posted at Amazingly Bizarre<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The rest of it was Kung-fu<\/a>, vitamin spam<\/a> and Feng-shui. I’m partially to blame, of course: Having failed to twist enough arms to produce a host, I put off announcing and begging for posts too long. As a result, I’m forced to do this more or less myself, with the stuff that I would have forwarded to whoever volunteered…. Needless to say, if I miss anything interesting, by all means nominate them<\/a>. And, of course, if you’re interested in hosting, even in the distant future (which, in blogging terms, is six months or more), let me know. NOW<\/b>, please.<\/p>\n

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This section is based on stuff I submitted to the last History Carnival<\/a>, with significant supplements from the previous six weeks and some things I missed:<\/p>\n

I did a little bad history takedown on some Mongol\/Iraq analogizing<\/a>. I still haven’t figured out why the generally progressive and anti-statist Japan Focus ran this piece. I also did a late report from the AHA on some Islamic history panels<\/a> that my friend Sepoy was kind enough to host at his blog. (Brian Ulrich is on the Sunni-Shia split<\/a> patrol as well, an elegant and complicated history.)<\/p>\n

Owen Miller, at the Korea blog, asks some hard questions<\/a> (he’s good at that<\/a>), and catching some really bad rhetoric<\/a><\/p>\n

Alan Baumler<\/a> and I have gotten into the habit of posting syllabi<\/a> at the beginning of the semester<\/p>\n

The Year<\/a> of the Pig<\/a> has gotten some attention<\/a> at our China blog (I draw your attention to the comments section, as well).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, this only takes us back two weeks, whereas the last AHC<\/a> was almost eight weeks ago. So, being a good historian, it’s time to dig backwards.<\/p>\n

My AHA blogging also included a first-day panel on sports and nationalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Bucky Sheftall did a great post on the history of Blood Typology<\/a>: Not only is it, as my friend Orac<\/a> would say, a load of woo, it’s a load of woo with a troubling history.<\/p>\n

I love it when bloggers collaborate: Jottings from the Granite Studio<\/i> and The Useless Tree<\/i> did some good thinking about Xunzi<\/a>, especially as a teaching exercise. And I’m always in favor of the history of historians<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It can be disconcerting to discover that someone with a similar name to yourself<\/a> is one of the most famous defectors to North Korea. Thanks, Adamu. Joe, at MutantFrogTravelogue, found in the newly available Time Magazine<\/i> archives a detailed feature on Japan in 1970<\/a>, which is going to make it into the reading list for my next 20c course.<\/p>\n

The MutantFrog himself copied a timeline of Japanese-resident Koreans<\/a> from a South Korea-associated middle-school textbook. While it is ROK-related, I’m a bit surprised that DPRK history doesn’t at least make a token appearance beyond the beginning and end of the Korean war. Speaking of the internationalization of Korean history, the China-Korea<\/a> history wars<\/a> continue, and the Japan-Korea conflicts have spilled over into US school testing<\/a>, but there was a time when Japanese and Korean anarchists worked closely<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Natalie Bennett notes<\/a> a Times Online<\/a> story about “ghost marriages” in China, including the — rare, I hope — depth of depravity to which some people have gone to satisfy their relatives in the afterlife. The “demographic time bomb” issue has been pretty prominent in my China course, but this is a twist I really didn’t expect. She also noted the exclusion of Starbucks from the Forbidden City<\/a>, though Lisa says that it wasn’t a big deal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The award-winning<\/a> Alan Baumler’s been doing some material culture blogging, too: a thoughtful post on antiques<\/a> and a nice discussion of the Luoyang Shovel<\/a>, designed for graverobbers and beloved by archaeologists.<\/p>\n

Michael, in Xinjiang reports on a cannabis-totin’ shaman mummy<\/a>. My students are gonna love this….<\/p>\n

Richard, in Taipei, reports critically on the Chinese documentary about the Rape of Nanjing<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Bill Benzon, in Tokugawa Blogging: Best of 2006<\/a>, recalls his pleasure at reading Eiko Ekegami’s Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture<\/i><\/p>\n

Ikegami argues that individuals who were assigned different stations by the Tokugawa shogunate would temporarily \u201cescape\u201d that structure in the pursuit of poetry, flower arranging, the tea ceremony, theatre, painting, and so forth. Samurai, merchants, farmers, and others were thus able to meet and interact as equals in these aesthetic activities. Over the centuries, these informal institutions forged a civil society \u201cthat generated an image of aesthetic Japan as if it had been a natural description of the geographical identity called Japan\u201d (375)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Art and architecture at the Marmot’s Hole: Yongsan’s colonial era architecture<\/a> and the architect Kim Swoo-geun<\/a>. And at wood s lot<\/i>, a tribute to photographer Sze Tsung Leong<\/a>, chronicler of urban change.<\/p>\n

On a lighter note, 100wordminimum<\/a> watched a terribly bilingual historical pun treated like gospel on a Japanese quiz show. Year of the Pig, indeed.<\/p>\n

Errors, omissions and bad style are par for the course: if you don’t like it, volunteer and show me up next time. [Update: I now have volunteers for March and April — many thanks! — but the rest of the year is wide open!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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