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Reconsidering Marco Polo

Posted on September 23, 2012 by Jonathan Dresner / 11 Comments

“Marco Polo’s reports of China, now judged mostly hearsay….” Perry Anderson, LRB I got an email from a student who found my blog post in which...

China/English/Mongols and Mongolia

China gets modern

Posted on February 10, 2010 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

A nice photo essay from Financial Times on railways in Inner Mongolia.  Lots of nice pics, but the thing that amazed me was that the author was traveling with a...

China/Mongols and Mongolia/Song/Teaching

Holiday reading: Murder, treachery and genocide

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

As I am half-heartedly getting ready for the Spring I am putting together some readings for my students. What survey would be complete without a chunk from the ...

Authors/Blogs and Carnivals/Books/China/English/Ethnic Minorities/Mongols and Mongolia

China's Robinson Crusoe

Posted on May 6, 2008 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

I’ve been reading Wolf Totem and having a lot of fun doing so. The book, based on Jiang Rong’s time as a sent-down youth in Inner Mongolia. was a hu...

China/English/Geography/Imperialism/Mongols and Mongolia

Maps and Empire

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Maps have been an important part of empire in China for a long time. In the Warring States period spies were always trying to steal maps, and defeated states pr...

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...

Archaeology/China/Events/General/Ming/Mongols and Mongolia

Tombs on Tuesday

Posted on May 9, 2006 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

It’s been a good week for archaeology in the news, it seems: Liao tombs in Mongolia, of course Ming-era Imperial (eunuch) tombs near Beijing

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