{"id":8679,"date":"2021-10-15T18:52:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=8679"},"modified":"2021-10-15T18:52:26","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T18:52:26","slug":"sources-in-the-digital-age-%e9%a6%ac%e9%a6%ac%e8%99%8e%e8%99%8e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2021\/10\/sources-in-the-digital-age-%e9%a6%ac%e9%a6%ac%e8%99%8e%e8%99%8e\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources in the digital age -\u99ac\u99ac\u864e\u864e"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 the New Era. You can find all sorts of cool stuff, but often in unusable or unstable forms. (not a revelation, I know.) Two examples (not involving old photos of airplanes)<\/p>\n

Here is a map I used in my Modern Japan class, showing the Boxer uprising (one of Japan’s first internationalist adventures)<\/p>\n

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I found it here https:\/\/weaponsandwarfare.com\/2015\/08\/page\/46\/<\/p>\n

via a google image search. Its a nice looking map, with a lot of information, and an impressive degree of specificity. The image says it is copyright Australian National University, but there the trail runs cold. I can’t find it via a google reverse image search (which seems to be getting worse over time), so if I wanted to publish it, or more likely trust it more when I teach about the Boxers in a China class, I am out of luck, unless I ask around on Facebook. More access, less solid sourcing.1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

Here is another image, from this very blog, showing Chinese exports to the US in 1976.<\/p>\n

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the blog post (link below) discusses how you can use https:\/\/oec.world\/ to generate images to talk about the changing trade relations between China and the U.S. Could I make up a similar set of images to talk about Japan- U.S. trade for this semester? Well I could have then, but the site is apparently now paywalled, has dropped a lot of the historical data and\/or no longer updating. The print archive was never as stable as it promised, but the digital archive seems to be even worse.<\/p>\n

Teaching export-led growth<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n