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Wang Wei and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

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

I have been reading Sarah M. Allen’s Shifting Stories: History, Gossip, and Lore in Narratives from Tang Dynasty China.  One of the main texts she is look...

Books/Uncategorized/visual culture

Understanding China

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

Understanding China through Comics Volume 4 is out! As I have reviewed the other volumes, I  was sent a free copy of this one. This volume deals with the Ming a...

Books/Ming/Qing/Teaching/Uncategorized

Teaching Late Imperial Chinese cultural history

Posted on March 17, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 3 Comments

Update So I think I have figured this one out, with a little help from my friends, both here and via e-mail. I will be using Tim Brook’s Troubled Empire t...

1945-1950/Uncategorized/visual culture

Manhua Journey to the West

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

I have mentioned Nick Stember before, but now he is doing a full translation of Zhang Guangyu’s manhua version of Journey to the West. This is worth looki...

Literature/Translation/Uncategorized

Literary Detectives (SO-27) OR The Strange Affair of the Flesh of the Bosom

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

If you have not read David Lodge’s Small World you should. It is a fine comic academic novel. At one point our hero is in a bar with a bunch of drunken Ja...

Culture/Food/Pigs/Uncategorized

History of Pigs

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

As we seem to be the internet center for Chinese history and pigs I thought I would call to your attention Pigs, Pork, and Ham: The Practice of Pig-Farming and ...

General/Qing/Uncategorized/World/明治

Lagging

Posted on January 10, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Mohammad Fadel, in Islamic Monthly (h/t Naheed Mustafa) chides critics of Islam who take contemporary Western ideals of egalitarianism and personal freedom as t...

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The cult of Madame Chiang

Posted on January 4, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Chiang Kai-shek used his wife Soong Mei-ling, as an important part of his attempts to reach out to the Americans and encourage them to see China as a modern nat...

Anecdotes/China-U.S./Uncategorized

Modern media culture was born in China. In 1931.

Posted on December 18, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Did you know that Charles Lindbergh, the biggest media star of the 1930’s, went to China? Well, I didn’t. He was there in 1931, after he had become ...

China-Japan/Japan/martial arts/Military/Propaganda/Uncategorized

Heroes and big swords in Shanghai

Posted on December 9, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

The 1932 Shanghai War produced its share of heroes, since any war needs heroes, both for domestic and foreign consumption. I just found two stories of a Chinese...

Teaching/Uncategorized

Teaching Asia, Fall 2014

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

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...

Japan/Uncategorized

Teaching in Japan

Posted on October 30, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 1 Comment

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...

Academia/Historiography/Uncategorized

Its hard out there for a party historian

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

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Frog in a Well enters the Five Dynasties phase

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

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...

Books/Classics/Historiography/Uncategorized

Chinese Canon wars

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 2 Comments

  From Xiaoqun Xu1  we get a wonderful description of a battle over the Chinese canon between Liang Qichao and Hu Shi. This took place in the pages of page...

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