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Economics/Teaching

The economics of maize

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Here, for your teaching pleasure, is a long quote on the value of corn (maize) in China. I often mention in class that New World crops were economically valuabl...

Korea/Literature/Teaching/Translation

Korean social history through yadam

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I was recently sent a copy of Si Nae Park The Korean Vernacular Story: Telling Tales of Contemporary Chosŏn in Sinographic Writing (Columbia U.P., 2020) It̵...

Literature/Poetry/Teaching/Uncategorized

The Songs of Chu

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Columbia University Press sent me a copy of Gopal Suku’s new translation of Qu Yuan’s The Songs of Chu. I am not qualified to speak about it as a scholarly tran...

Syllabi/Teaching

Student Handbook for Fall 2020 – MO3055 The History of History in East Asia

Posted on June 27, 2020 by K. M. Lawson / 2 Comments

Inspired by Alan’s syllabus blogging for his History of East Asia class, I thought I would contribute my own new fall offering. Teaching in Scotland at my...

Teaching/Uncategorized

Syllabus blogging for Fall 2020 HIST 206 History of East Asia

Posted on June 23, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

There is a tradition here of blogging about our syllabi and asking for advice. Fall semester will be a bit different. We will be doing hybrid (well, actually Ha...

1911/Maps/Republican/Revolution/Teaching/Uncategorized

Spreading Revolution from Wuhan, 1911

Posted on February 9, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image I use in class, from Caroline Blunden and Mark Elvin. Cultural Atlas of China New York: Facts on File, 1983. p.158. This has some good images i...

1970s/Labor/Maoist era (1949-1976)/Teaching

Iron Man Wang

Posted on November 17, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

For your teaching pleasure, here is the story of Iron Man Wang, from China Reconstructs, Sept, 1977. I have a pile of old 70’s Chinese propaganda magazine...

Gender/Japan/Teaching/Uncategorized

Opening vignettes on Tokugawa prostitutes

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I never really responded to Jonathan’s post on opening vignettes as pedagogy, but I do like using them. In fact, I will be using a couple Monday. Sometime...

Chinese/Language/Teaching/Uncategorized

Classical Chinese for Everyone

Posted on October 19, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 5 Comments

Looking for a fun book? Look no further! Bryan Van Norden’s Classical Chinese for Everyone: A Guide for Absolute Beginners is it. This is a book for anyon...

Books/Comics/Gender/Japan/Labor/Teaching/visual culture

Ichi-F -Japanese workingman’s blues

Posted on December 30, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts was Ichi-F: A Worker’s Graphic Memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant As it says on the cover, it is a worker’s memoir. The...

Books/Han Dynasty/Philosophy/Teaching

Huainanzi and teaching Early China

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

I really liked using Huainanzi in my upper-division Early China class this semester.  I have a habit of switching books a lot in all my classes, in part because...

Books/Books and Articles/China/Teaching/visual culture

Teaching with old photographs

Posted on December 5, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One thing that I have started teaching with this semester is Ed Krebs and Hanchao Lu, eds., China in Family Photographs: A Peoples History of Revolution and Eve...

Philosophy/Social History/Teaching

Who are the shi?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since I am teaching Early China this semester, I am drawing from Yuri Pines, Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought of the Warring States Period ...

Gender/Qing/Republican/Social History/Teaching

Did Chinese women go to opium dens?

Posted on October 25, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Since someone asked me if Qing women went to opium dens, I thought I would answer and put up some of my evidence. Short answer – I don’t think so, a...

1911/Teaching/visual culture

Visual Shanghai

Posted on June 9, 2018 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I went to the Shanghai History Museum today and got some nice teaching-related images. Some of them are useful, but not that exciting, like a nice rickshaw and ...

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