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For my next impression, Josephine Owens!

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

This is a cover from the Shanghai magazine Modern Sketch. If you want to learn more about the magazine, you can go here. What I find interesting about this cove...

Academia/Asian American/Uncategorized

Edward Alsworth Ross and the good old days of scholarship

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Edward Alsworth Ross  was the father of modern Sociology, or maybe Criminology or Anthropology (disciplines were harder to distinguish back then) and also a maj...

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Teaching about lives

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Since James Joshua Hudson brought it up on Facebook, I thought I would say something about teaching with Robert Bickers’ Empire Made Me: An Englishman Adrift in...

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Sidney Mintz

Posted on January 28, 2016 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Not that I have much to say about it, but if you are interested in the history of commodities or consumption or of the links between anthropology and history th...

Libraries/Tang/Tibet/Translation/Uncategorized/Web Sites

Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact

Posted on December 12, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you teach about Dunhuang, or the Tang dynasty, or inter-cultural contact, or just like to read interesting things, you should be aware of the Early Tibet web...

Books/Historiography/Uncategorized/visual culture

Understanding China-The interview

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Stone Bridge Press is bringing out a deluxe edition of Jing Liu’s Understanding China Through Comics, which I have been reviewing here and enjoying very m...

Religion/Taiwan/Uncategorized

Do you want some pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo’s funeral?

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Of course you do. Assuming you are interested in either the history of Christianity in Taiwan or funeral customs or.. well… China. More here.

Asian American/Historiography/Japan/Memory/Public History/Uncategorized/US-Japan/昭和

Immigrant Panics, then and now.

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 1 Comment

There’s not all that much to add to George Takei’s devastating response to Roanoke Mayor David Bowen’s attempt to rationalize refusing Syrian ...

Art/Japan/Teaching/Uncategorized

The Chinese as children of Japan

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Above is a nice image that I use in class. I think I got it from Fairbank. I am not quite sure where it comes from, but it is clearly dealing with the Anglo-Jap...

Gender/Propaganda/Uncategorized/visual culture

Women and jewlery

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Here is a great picture of Madame Chiang Kai-shek via Getty it’s an interesting picture,  at least for me, since it ties in with a couple of interesting t...

Books/Food/Qing/Social History/Translation/Uncategorized

Yuan Mei, Food Network star

Posted on September 10, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As  Yuan Mei’s Garden of Accord Food Book is now available in English translation, I have been reading the whole thing. One of the things that strikes me is how...

Literature/Teaching/Translation/Uncategorized

Folding Beijing

Posted on August 24, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

One of the primary sources I assigned for my History of East Asia class this semester was “Folding Beijing” a Chinese science fiction story by Hao J...

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Syllabus blogging

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

As is something of a tradition here, I am asking for help with my classes. This one is HIST 206 History of East Asia, (i.e. Rice Paddies.) This has not changed ...

Books/Gender/Literature/Translation/Uncategorized

Zhuangzi’s brain

Posted on April 30, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

I have been reading Wilt Idema The Resurrected Skeleton: From Zhuangzi to Lu Xun.  The book is a translation of various versions of the story of Zhuangzi and th...

Communism/Political/Uncategorized/Web Sites

Confucianism Today

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

Taisu Zhang has an interesting piece on China File analyzing the recent Jennifer Pan and Yiqing Xu paper on ideology in China. Zhang is trying to figure out why...

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