Teaching Asia, Fall 2014
Wow, I forgot to write a syllabus post! There is something of a tradition here at the Frog of posting our syllabai and asking for advice about how to teach a pa...
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Teaching in Japan
So, we are getting into the late middle of the Fall semester here in North America. If you are finding the whole teaching thing is getting you down, here is som...
Its hard out there for a party historian
Xie Chuntao, the chief historian at the Central Party School has recently expressed an opinion that some parts of China’s history are closed, and likely t...
Frog in a Well enters the Five Dynasties phase
This blog is currently going through a Tang-Song transition sort of thing: a somewhat confusing period of change from which it emerges better than ever…ma...
Chinese Canon wars
From Xiaoqun Xu (( Xu, Xiaoqun. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China: The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918-1928. La...