http://www.froginawell.net/china The China History Group Blog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:08:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 at the Multicultural Canada website. Chinese Canadian Community News 加華僑報 (1970s-80s) Chinese Express 快報 (1970s-80s) Chinese Times 大漢公報 (1910s-1990s) Hung Chung She Po 洪鐘時報 (1950s) Ottawa Chinese Community Newsletter 加京華報 (1970s-80s) There is [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/source-chinese-canadian-newspapers/ As we are at mid-semester I thought it would be a nice time to think about Education, with a little help from Feng Zikai, Republican China’s best-known cartoonist. All images from the Chinese edition of Christoph Harbsmeier Feng Zikai Social Realism with a Buddhist Face Shandong Huabao, 2004 ]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/education-in-pictures/ Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue are all economists and they are doing interesting work on rural-urban migration in China. Given that China has better registration of its rural population than places like Mexico it is a good place to look at migration patterns. They find that people from the same village tend [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/why-cant-an-economist-be-more-like-an-historian/ As a follow-up to Konrad’s post below I came across something on dogs in Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul, where he is lamenting the passing of the old city, but at least the dogs are holding out as modernization sweeps things away. I’m not sure wartime dog-killing quite fits with this, but some of the other aspects [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/dogs-again/ Lots of bits of Chinese prose would make great blog entries. (A blog is basically a biji, more or less) Plus, they make great things to teach from. So, if any of you are teaching about the Song dynasty elite and their attitudes towards the mundane world you might find this from our guest-blogger Ouyang [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/guest-blogger-ou-yang-hsiu/ The Chinese Communist campaign against animals that is most talked about is the Four Pests campaign of the late 1950s launched against various pests and sparrows. However, the extermination of dogs in wartime seems to be another interesting example. In a report by the Japanese military giving an overview of Chinese Communist wartime economic measures taken [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/03/the-satsukentai-wartime-dog-killing-squads/ I was struck, preparing for class yesterday, that the Tonghak and Taiping faiths were surprisingly similar and arose nearly simultaneously: Syncretic monotheistic faiths drawing on Confucian, Christian and indigenous magical traditions, with anti-foreign reformist programs and a counter-cultural ethos of equality.1 There are obvious differences, too, in teachings and in the leadership, but the structural [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/02/tonghak-and-taiping/ “Beware of China, for when the dragon wakes she will shake the world.” Napoleon? Although there’s no evidence that he ever said it, the quote caught the essence of what westerners thought should be the case and has been endlessly recycled. But over the last decade a lot of  loose talk about “China Rising” has been going [...]]]> http://www.froginawell.net/china/2010/02/china-rises-china-wakes/