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Author: Jonathan Dresner

Asian American/Diaspora/Ethnic Minorities/globalization/Historiography/Imperialism/India/Nationalism

Diaspora experience as a function of modernity, imperialism, and nationalism.

Posted on February 22, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

From my online course on Asia-US migration, an upcoming discussion: The second half of [Vinay] Lal’s book [The Other Indians: A Political And Cultural His...

Asian American/Current Events/Ethnic Minorities/Historiography/US-Japan/War

Oh, internment again.

Posted on February 2, 2017 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

This is something I wrote for my Asia-US migration class this week. We’re reading Erika Lee’s The Making of Asian America. You can figure out which ...

Books/Books and Articles/China-Japan/China-Korea/Choson/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Military/Ming/War/安土桃山

A thought on military and transnational history in lieu of a review

Posted on December 14, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

In that odd lull between end-of-semester grading and final exam grading, I finally got around to reading that interlibrary loan book that was due last Friday, K...

China/Historiography/Yuan

An update on the Marco Polo problem

Posted on November 7, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I said when I introduced the History Carnival that I’d been doing a lot of private blogging in the form of online course materials, and I really should sh...

Academia/Blog Carnival/Blogs and Carnivals

History Carnival #160

Posted on November 1, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Welcome to the November 2016 History Carnival! It’s been a while since I hosted a carnival, and a while since I was blogging regularly, as well. Unless yo...

Atrocities/China-Japan/Current/Recent Events/Film/Historiography/Korea-Japan/Memory/Nationalism/Pedagogy/War/昭和

Memory Politics and Memory Drama

Posted on May 3, 2016 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Jordan Sand’s A Year of Memory Politics in East Asia: Looking Back on the “Open Letter in Support of Historians in Japan” is immensely timely: I spent a f...

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

Culture/martial arts/Memory/Military/Nationalism/Pedagogy/大正/明治/昭和

Reading Note: Oleg Benesch, “Inventing the way of the Samurai: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bushido in Modern Japan”

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Before I praise Benesch’s book, a complaint: Oxford UP pricing is absurd. Now that’s not unusual for academic hardbacks, monographs that go to libra...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

1980s/globalization/India/Nationalism/World

The Right Turn

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

Basharat Peer interview with Pankaj Mishra on China and India is worth reading, and not that long, but I was particularly struck by this bit towards the end: &#...

Books/Cultural/Environment/Food/Historiography

Food History Themes and Exceptions

Posted on May 25, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Once is a fluke. Twice is coincidence. Three times is a conspiracy. There’s a theme that runs through a great deal of food history writing, nearly all of ...

English/Foreign Views/Military/Science / Technology/US-Japan/War/昭和

Dastardly, Diabolic, Secret, Silent and Deadly Saboteurs

Posted on January 20, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

It’s almost like he’s kidding, but surely a professional writer would know that sarcasm doesn’t translate to the page, right? NPR’s Lint...

General/Qing/World/明治

Lagging

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Mohammad Fadel, in Islamic Monthly (h/t Naheed Mustafa) chides critics of Islam who take contemporary Western ideals of egalitarianism and personal freedom as t...

Books and Articles/Food/Japan/Nationalism

Science, Social Science, and Pseudoscience of Diet/Culture Thesis

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Eminent food historian Rachel Laudan alerted me recently to the existence of new scholarship, cultural psychology, giving support to the idea that different bas...

Academia/Film/Foreign Views/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Pedagogy/US-Japan

ASPAC 2014 Abstract: Japanese Historical Process in Anglophone Cinema

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

It’s that time of year again, when procrastinators do their taxes, spring cleaning, and summer abstract writing in one weekend! My proposed paper for ASPA...

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