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Don't Toy With China

Posted on November 6, 2007 by C. W. Hayford / 3 Comments

I wrote an op-ed piece “Don’t Toy With China” for ASIA MEDIA, a web journal run by the UCLA ASIA INSTITUTE.  The piece looks at how the real i...

China/Current Events/English/Post-Mao

China on display

Posted on October 14, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Historians have been very interested in World’s Fairs, international exhibitions and such for a while now. This is in part because of Gellner and Anderson...

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...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Economics/English/Taiwan

Take grain as the key link

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Securing grain supplies and providing food security for the peasants was always one of the main duties of the Chinese state, partly because of their deep concer...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/Current Events/Post-Mao

The Chinese brand

Posted on June 26, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Daniel Drezner has a post up about the troubles that the Chinese brand name is facing at present. (Dan is thinking about China this week) From tires that kill y...

Articles/China/Current Events/Economics/English/Japan/Post-Mao

China's Traditional, right?

Posted on June 13, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 3 Comments

Cultural Revolution? Yan’an Purge? It’s an ugly campaign season, a mix of talent show, debate, old-fashioned politicking and dirty tricks. It’...

Articles/China/China-U.S./Current Events/English/Japan

Accumulated History: A miscellany

Posted on June 11, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

As always, stuff for which I don’t give a tip of the hat mostly came from HNN Pushing back, archaeology style: 8000 year old writing probably early form o...

China/Current Events/English/Identity/Public History/Taiwan

A rose by any other name

Posted on May 25, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 11 Comments

As many of our readers already know, the Taiwanese government has re-named the Chiang Kai-shek memorial in Taibei, now known as the Taiwan Democracy Memorial Ha...

China/Current Events/English/Imperialism

It's not Imperialism

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

Via Yahoo a roundup of recent stuff on China’s involvement in Africa. China of course has growing economic interests in Africa and very little interest in...

Archaeology/China/Countryside/Current Events/English

A stupid idea that will never work

Posted on March 30, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Via Mutant Palm I learn that at 13-mile long dragon is being built in Henan It is being built on a hill that is supposedly the home of the First Emperor, and wh...

Archaeology/Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/China-Korea/China-U.S./Current Events/Diaspora/English/General/Historiography/Imperialism/Japan/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Qing/Sino-Japanese Wars/Web Sites and Resources

Asian History News Dump, March 2007

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

This is a “dump”: all the Asia related stuff I’ve saved over the last…. two months? Anyway, nobody else has blogged about it, so I thoug...

Blogs and Carnivals/China/China-Japan/Current Events/English/Japan

Some China News

Posted on February 5, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

The 11th Asian History Carnival is up, and the next host will be this blog’s own Alan Baumler! In spite of new evidence regarding Japanese war crimes, a J...

China/Current Events/English/General/Historiography/Japan/Mongols and Mongolia/War

Bad History: Mongols good, US bad?

Posted on January 15, 2007 by Jonathan Dresner / 8 Comments

Jack Weatherford’s piece reprinted in the latest edition of (the increasingly inaptly named) Japan Focus argues that the US occupation of Iraq is a failur...

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