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China/English/Public History/Tibet

The pure land of Tibet and the lothesome Han Chinese

Posted on January 6, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 6 Comments

Washington Monthly has an article up on Chinese tourism in Tibet. It is by Pearl Sydenstricker, who is a western (I assume) reporter who does not want to use th...

Cultural/English/Film/Foreign Views/Japan/Premodern/江戸

Yes, I watched it.

Posted on December 30, 2013 by Jonathan Dresner / 4 Comments

As Jamie Noguchi said, I see these movies so you don’t have to: my review of 47 Ronin is up at HNN. As expected, it’s a blazing failure, with few de...

Books/China/English/Intellectual/Maoist era (1949-1976)

Sinology and Simon Leys

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 4 Comments

New York Review of Books Classics has re-printed Simon Leys’ The Hall of Uselessness: Selected Essays. This makes him the first Sinologist to crack the NY...

China/English/Teaching/Web Sites and Resources

Pan-Asianism

Posted on November 25, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Hey, I published something! It is a course reader entitled “Japan, China and Pan-Asianism” I did not write much of it, but it does have my name on it. The reaso...

China/English/Literature/Tang/Teaching

Confucius does Powerpoint

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

 There is an old Chinese story concerning three young men who are too lazy to study. Their father builds them a hut on a mountain figuring that isolation will h...

China/English/Teaching

How can students relate to Asia?

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Miriam Burstein has a typically good post up on her frustrations in dealing with students who want to ‘relate to’ The Tempest. She was frustrated by...

China/English/Teaching

Extra syllabus blogging -Guan Yu meets Qiu Jin on the internet

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Bonus syllabus blogging!1 Since I have received some really good advice about how to teach my classes from yunz, I thought I would try again. This is not a clas...

China/English/Teaching

Drugs and Empires in Asia -More syllabus blogging

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

So, as I got some help last time I asked for advice on what to teach next semester, here is what I have for HIST 403 Drugs and Empires in Asia. This is a senior...

China/English/Public History

Xi'an Walls

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The city of Xi’an is in the process of re-building the city wall and adding four new museums, one each for the Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang dynasties. I was no...

China/English/Teaching

Syllabus blogging for Spring 2014-1

Posted on October 10, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 7 Comments

Today is October 10, which is both an important day in Chinese history and also means that I am late in getting in my book orders for Spring. In the past I have...

China/English/visual culture

Vinegar Joe, cartoonist

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I did not know that Stillwell’s diaries were transcribed  and on-line at the Hoover. Vinegar Joe was the commander of U.S. forces in China during the firs...

Anecdotes/Books/China/English

The Chinese are topsy-turvy

Posted on September 21, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

One common theme that turns up a lot in older Western writings on China is the idea that China is the opposite of the West. Just take our, normal, rational way ...

China/English/Historiography/Teaching

Kids nowadays…

Posted on September 15, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Need to read more Marx. Well, maybe they don’t, but it would make my job easier. I did a lot of Marx in my undergraduate days at Northern Illinois Univers...

Asian American/Books/China/English/Literature

Commander Bradshaw goes to China

Posted on September 8, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Lately I have been going through Project Guttenberg and reading old books set in China. Late at night when you are too tired to go to bed, or in the odd quarter...

China/English/Teaching

Essays (with fewer than 8 legs)

Posted on September 5, 2013 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

One book that most people here who teach the methods course for majors use is Benjamin’s A Student’s Guide to History. It covers most of the stuff y...

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