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Blogs and Carnivals/China/English

China is now Japan

Posted on July 26, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 10 Comments

It’s official. China is now Japan. Or, more specifically China is now the country that poor countries in the third world are supposed to be emulating. Whe...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Economics

Beer in China

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

Robert Bickers has a nice post up at China Beat on the early history of Qingdao beer. Its a good post and sheds a lot of light on the early history of what is n...

Blogs and Carnivals/China

Basic principles of Chinese History

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

From China Geeks via CDT the basic principles needed to write Chinese history. As one commenter pointed out, they would almost work as the principles to write a...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events

Shanghai gets ready for its close-up

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you are tired of reading about the past, you could read about the future instead. Gina Russo has a great pair of posts up at China Beat on Shanghai’s p...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events

It was twenty years ago today

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

If three times is a trend then there is now a trend of historical liveblogging about China. CDT is doing a liveblog of the Tiananmen demonstrations for the 20th...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/Pre-Han

Bad sons

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Over at A Ku Indeed Chris asks about Mencius  4A28, in which Mencius commends Shun for transforming his father. He (Shun) considered that if one could not get t...

Blogs and Carnivals/General/Historiography/Korea/Web Sites/World

History Carnival #75: Semisesquicentennial! Terquasquigenary! Septuagesiquintennial!

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

Note: The History Carnival is still looking for a May 1st host, as well as hosts for the summer and beyond. Contact Sharon Howard (sharon$@$earlymodernweb$.$org...

Blogs and Carnivals/China

Academics read the newspaper

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

And find good things (On time zones in China) And bad things (On Qing cultural history) Both of these articles are attempts by non-specialists to explain China,...

Blogs and Carnivals/China

Bad Daoism

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 14 Comments

Calling Sam Crane. Apparently Laozi is the best way to understand modern American Conservatism.  Original here. Favorable notice here. It is nice to know that L...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English/visual culture

Mysteries of History (transportation division)

Posted on March 1, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Here is a bit of a puzzle for our readers to clear up. A while back I pointed at a nice collection of 17th Century Dutch pictures of Japan. Jonathan Dresner was...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/Environment/Japan/Qing/Science and Technology

Liveblogging, slowblogging, Mammoth Blogging?

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

John McKay, at Archy, is publishing excerpts from his work on the natural history and historiography of wooly mammoths. The latest installment is about China, p...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/English

Making China democratic

Posted on January 17, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 16 Comments

Over at A Ku Indeed people have been discussing Bell’s East and West, which is an attempt to create a dialogue between Western and Eastern concepts of rig...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Newspapers/Qing

Liveblogging the Boxers

Posted on January 13, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

Military historian David Silbey is going to be blogging through the Boxer Uprising as seen through the New York Times. Though this is a little more of a distant...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Classics/English

I like sex better than bear paws

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 9 Comments

Over at A Ku Indeed people, including myself, have been discussing Daniel Bell’s East Meets West which looks at the importation of foreign concepts of hum...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-U.S./Culture/English/Foreign Views

Great Expectorations: Puke, Spitting, and Face

Posted on December 12, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 2 Comments

What’s the difference between puking and spitting? Is one involuntary and the other on purpose? Joel, at China Hope Live reports that maybe you see the di...

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