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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...

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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...

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...

Books/Cultural/Popular Culture/Science and Technology/Uncategorized

Can you speak Chinese?

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

  Friend-of-the-blog Gina Tam1 has a new book out.Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960  Cambridge University Press, 2020 It is a really remarkable s...

Economics/globalization/Historical analogies/Historiography/Uncategorized

Was Late Imperial China Early Modern?

Posted on June 3, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Zou Jiajun posted on the Sinologists Facebook group asking how the term “Early Modern” got to be used in China studies. This is a an interesting question, since...

Art/Gender/Uncategorized/visual culture

Art and status and women and mirrors and…

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image from the back of a Song dynasty mirror in the collection of Martin J. Powers. As he describes it One [woman], on the right, tends a child and s...

Current Events/Current/Recent Events/Hong Kong/Politics/Popular Culture/Uncategorized/visual culture

Masks in recent Chinese History

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

So this is a post that already seems outdated, but I thought I would do it anyway. Masks now mean something quite different than they did before, and I am sure ...

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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...

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...

Film/Occupation/Uncategorized

Princess Iron Fan and the origins of Asian animation

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Like most of you (I assume) I knew that Princess Iron Fan 鐵扇公主 (1941) was China’s first full-length animated film. Also like most of you I assume that you...

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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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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...

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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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