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Group research project -Abortive Revolution

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

  This Fall I will again be having students do a group research project. They will split into groups and read some articles and present on them and then wr...

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Failure to communicate -Huainanzi

Posted on May 8, 2022 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So, the Huainanzi project in my early China class went ok, and would have worked better if I had been better at explaining what I wanted from the final paper. I...

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Syllabus blogging Fall 2020 -HIST 433 China 1300-1800 The Late Imperial Age

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. This is my upper-division class for the semester, where I want to push students i...

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A Wuhan Timeline and Bibliography

Posted on March 3, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

The world’s attention has, for the most part, moved on from Wuhan, the city where the the Covid-19 virus outbreak began. Now the media both within and bey...

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Mapping China from the air

Posted on February 18, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Since I have been posting maps, I thought I would put this up. This is from Shigeru Kobayashi 小林茂, Gaihōzu : Teikoku Nihon no Ajia chizu 外邦図 : 帝国日本のアジア地図 (Tōk...

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Confucius hates Japan

Posted on December 7, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Once upon a time I was big into Chinese currency. Not so much as a speculator, but as one of the people who bought old banknotes from people who were selling th...

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Revolutionary China

Posted on September 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Looking to spend some money? There are a lot of good essays in the Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary China. The editing is not that good, but there are some r...

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Bullets and Opium-Tiananmen thirty years later

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Part of my summer reading has been Liao Yiwu‘s Bullets and Opium: Real-Life Stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre. Liao got in trouble afte...

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“What I Read Over Summer Vacation” (part one?)

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

I’ve been on something of a tear through my to-read pile in search of… well, I’m not entirely sure some days. A lot of what’s in that st...

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The soldier-archeologist

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Among other things, the Japanese empire was an empire of science. Conquest led to (or was proceeded by) masses of geographers, anthropologists, geologists etc. ...

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The Marie Kondo thing

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

I’ve been avoiding getting into the debate about Marie Kondo’s konmari brand of modernist orientalism, mostly because I’m not that interested,...

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On the opening vignette as pedagogy

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

A passage I wrote for one of my online course discussion boards: One of my pet peeves about textbook, history, and journalistic writing is the use of the “...

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Pedagogy In The Wild

Posted on January 20, 2019 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

In a thoughtful discussion of teaching at USIH, I commented In addition to all the other qualifications and tensions around teaching, there are gaps between dis...

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Syllabus blogging for Fall 2018

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

So, as is our tradition, a bit about what I will be doing in my classes in the Fall. As is also tradition, I am doing this way too late to incorporate any of yo...

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Fame! and journalism

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Don’t you hate it when a good bit of teaching material comes to your attention just a little too late? I hate it when that happens. In this case the probl...

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