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Category: Classics

China/Classics/English/Foreign Views/Japan/Pigs

A Blog Post Upon Roast Pig

Posted on October 10, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

I was reading a discussion of progressive economics at Progressive Historians and was stopped dead in my tracks by a quote from Henry George There is a delusion...

China/China-U.S./Classics/Current Events/English/Foreign Views/Historiography/Taiwan

Lies, Damn Lies, and Chinese “Lies That Bind”

Posted on August 28, 2008 by C. W. Hayford / 8 Comments

Do Chinese lie? The Western media have jumped on recent revelations about doctoring the Olympic opening ceremonies and allegations about false ages of their gym...

China/Classics/English

Summer is here

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Today is the first day of summer here in Pennsylvania, which must mean it is time for a reading from 呂氏春秋 Lüshi Chunqiu LSCQ is best described as a philosophica...

China/Classics/English/Historiography/War

Perennial Question: Martial Arts in Chinese Militaries?

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

I got a query from a reader which echoes a question I’ve gotten in class1 many times: With China’s long history of martial arts, how prominent can i...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Classics/Education/Qing

Why Study?

Posted on September 23, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Jeremiah from Granite Studio has  post about the debate in American universities about the relationship between education and training. Anthony Kronman claims t...

China/Classics/Current Events/English/Post-Mao

National sudies fever

Posted on September 7, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

China’s intellectual world needs to bundle up better, and wear its galoshes, since it tends to catch a lot of “fevers.” The current one is for...

China/Classics/Economics/English

Has anyone seen the scissors?

Posted on February 15, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Tang-dynasty scissors, via wikipedia   Perhaps they are not as interesting as pigs, but I had a question about scissors. I was reading the 海王 chapter of Gu...

China/Classics/English/General

Naughty or Nice?

Posted on December 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As it is time to think about the good or bad behavior of children, I have been wondering why so many Chinese sage-kings had rotten kids. Lewis points out that o...

China/Classics/Education/English/General

Such are the guidelines for students

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

For the end of the semester, Guanzi on Duties of the Student from the Rickett translation The teacher presents his teachings; students take them as standards fo...

China/Classics/General/Literature/Poetry

Six Dynasties blogging

Posted on June 19, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the things I have been doing for fun this summer is reading Family Instructions for the Yen clan 顏氏家訓by Yen Chih-t’ui 顏之推 (T’eng Ssu-Yu trans Leiden 1968...

China/Classics/Gender/General/Identity

Happy Father's Day

Posted on June 15, 2006 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There are lots of Western holidays that don’t translate well to China. Christmas shows up a bit, especially since all the ornaments are made in Asia, but ...

China/Classics/English/General/Language/Literature/Poetry

Hightower Obituary

Posted on March 4, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

If you’re an H-Asia reader, you already saw this, but if you’re not, it’s an interesting look at the 20th century history of Asian literary st...

Books/China/Classics/English/General/Historiography/Song/Teaching

Lumpy Chinese History

Posted on January 12, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 7 Comments

There are a few places to go for archived syllabi — H-Net, ExEAS, I had a printed collection at one point, as well, then there’s the GMU Syllabus Fi...

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