For my next impression, Josephine Owens!
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...
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Edward Alsworth Ross and the good old days of scholarship
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...
Teaching about lives
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...
Sidney Mintz
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...
Dunhuang, translation, and cultural contact
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...
Understanding China-The interview
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...
Do you want some pictures of Chiang Ching-kuo’s funeral?
Of course you do. Assuming you are interested in either the history of Christianity in Taiwan or funeral customs or.. well… China. More here.
Immigrant Panics, then and now.
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 ...
The Chinese as children of Japan
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...
Women and jewlery
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...
Yuan Mei, Food Network star
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...
Folding Beijing
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...
Syllabus blogging
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 ...
Zhuangzi’s brain
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...
Confucianism Today
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...