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Author: Alan Baumler

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...

Gender/Japan/Teaching/Uncategorized

Opening vignettes on Tokugawa prostitutes

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I never really responded to Jonathan’s post on opening vignettes as pedagogy, but I do like using them. In fact, I will be using a couple Monday. Sometime...

Chinese/Language/Teaching/Uncategorized

Classical Chinese for Everyone

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Looking for a fun book? Look no further! Bryan Van Norden’s Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners is it. This is a book for anyon...

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Revolutionary China

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Looking to spend some money? There are a lot of good essays in the Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China. The editing is not that good, but there are some r...

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Bullets and Opium-Tiananmen thirty years later

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Part of my summer reading has been Liao Yiwu‘s Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Liao got in trouble afte...

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The soldier-archeologist

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Among other things, the Japanese empire was an empire of science. Conquest led to (or was proceeded by) masses of geographers, anthropologists, geologists etc. ...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Books/Han Dynasty/Philosophy/Teaching

Huainanzi and teaching Early China

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I really liked using Huainanzi in my upper-division Early China class this semester.  I have a habit of switching books a lot in all my classes, in part because...

Books/Books and Articles/China/Teaching/visual culture

Teaching with old photographs

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One thing that I have started teaching with this semester is Ed Krebs and Hanchao Lu, eds., China in Family Photographs: A Peoples History of Revolution and Eve...

Language/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Uncategorized

Pinyin is coming to get you!

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here is a CIA report on Pinyin from, I think, 1961 or so. They lay out the history of pinyin as a method of romanization (or latinization) of Chinese, and from ...

Philosophy/Social History/Teaching

Who are the shi?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since I am teaching Early China this semester, I am drawing from Yuri Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Period ...

Gender/Qing/Republican/Social History/Teaching

Did Chinese women go to opium dens?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Since someone asked me if Qing women went to opium dens, I thought I would answer and put up some of my evidence. Short answer – I don’t think so, a...

Economics/Food/International Affairs/Uncategorized

Canadian pot and the lessons of opium

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Apparently Canada has legalized pot. The New Republic is speculating that they may find it hard to get an official distribution system to replace the old illega...

Japanese/Movies/Popular Culture

Chinese Anti-Japanese films

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

There is a new book out, though sadly only in Japanese so far, about Chinese Anti-Japanese films. There are countless Sino-Japanese war movies and TV shows, and...

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Syllabus blogging for Fall 2018

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

So, as is our tradition, a bit about what I will be doing in my classes in the Fall. As is also tradition, I am doing this way too late to incorporate any of yo...

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