A reader wrote: I spotted this exhibition (“Jewish Refugees and Shanghai” by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum) on the first floor corridor of the main building of the University of Basel the other...
Before they were restricted to Hongkew, their attitude toward the Japanese was mainly based on how the Japanese treated other groups who lived in Shanghai. After Pearl Harbor, Japan stepped out...
Turn of the century Shanghai was a hotbed of imperialist engagement, capitalism, revolutionary politics, crime, and intellectualism. Therefore, it is no coincidence that it was in Shanghai that the 1905 anti-American...
This is the story of how Song Dynasty China invented paper currency while Western Europe was still trying to figure out how 2-dimensional perspective worked. A first edition of Song paper...
Confucian thought, in its most simplistic form, holds that the balance of the universe rests upon the upholding of relationships—the relationship between the ruler and the ruled, parents and children, husbands...
In 771 BCE the Zhou Dynasty moved its seat from Hao, to the eastern city of Luoyang, precipitating a long period of gradual decentralization, spanning from 770-221 BCE. This period of...
January 11, 2019: This post represents a combined version of my previous posts on this subject, and was cross-posted to Beyond Victoriana. Further, I wrote this post before completing my MA thesis...
In 1856, East Indian Railway Company workers summoned General Alexander Cunningham to the Indus River Valley site, where they had uncovered the ruins of an ancient city. The archaeologists who had...
A month or two ago I made a post about the “Shanghai Ghetto,” the probable topic of my Master’s thesis. Since making that post I’ve done a large amount of research...
Welcome to one of those posts that is secretly derived from my thesis research. Contains mention of the Holocaust. My research is still in its early stages, so this breakdown of...
“Jewish Refugees and Shanghai” by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum
A reader wrote: I spotted this exhibition (“Jewish Refugees and Shanghai” by the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum) on the first floor corridor of the main building of the University of Basel the other...
Category: Chinese Civil War, Chinese History, Cultural Commentary and Criticism, Historiography, Holocaust History, I Go Off, Immigration History, Jewish History, Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, Memory Studies, Museums, Politics, Questions from the Audience, Theory and Philosophy, World War II
What do you know about Jewish perceptions of the Japanese between 1938/39 and 1943? Once they were confined to the ghetto it seems like they pretty much feared/hated the Japanese especially Ghoya. What about when they lived in the French Concession?
Before they were restricted to Hongkew, their attitude toward the Japanese was mainly based on how the Japanese treated other groups who lived in Shanghai. After Pearl Harbor, Japan stepped out...
Category: Chinese History, East Asian and Indian History, Holocaust History, Japanese History, Jewish History, Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, Questions from the Audience, World War II
Reading Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Shanghai
Turn of the century Shanghai was a hotbed of imperialist engagement, capitalism, revolutionary politics, crime, and intellectualism. Therefore, it is no coincidence that it was in Shanghai that the 1905 anti-American...
Category: African American History, American History, Chinese History, History of Literature, History of Slavery, Immigration History, Imperialism, Japanese History
That Time Song Dynasty China Invented Paper Currency
This is the story of how Song Dynasty China invented paper currency while Western Europe was still trying to figure out how 2-dimensional perspective worked. A first edition of Song paper...
Category: Chinese History, East Asian and Indian History, History of Science and Technology, Song Dynasty
Ban Zhao: Women’s Education Advocate, Historian, Educator, and Librarian
Confucian thought, in its most simplistic form, holds that the balance of the universe rests upon the upholding of relationships—the relationship between the ruler and the ruled, parents and children, husbands...
Category: Chinese History, East Asian and Indian History, Han Dynasty, History of Literature, Intellectual History, Women's History Global
The Warring States Period, or, A Wild Confucius Appears
In 771 BCE the Zhou Dynasty moved its seat from Hao, to the eastern city of Luoyang, precipitating a long period of gradual decentralization, spanning from 770-221 BCE. This period of...
Category: Chinese History, East Asian and Indian History, Intellectual History, Military History, Qin Dynasty, Warring States, Zhou Dynasty
The Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai: 1938-1949
January 11, 2019: This post represents a combined version of my previous posts on this subject, and was cross-posted to Beyond Victoriana. Further, I wrote this post before completing my MA thesis...
Category: Chinese Civil War, Chinese History, Eastern European Jewish History, European History, German Jewish History, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, Holocaust History, Immigration History, Japanese History, Jewish History, Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, Sephardic Jewish History, Sino-Japanese War, Women in the Holocaust, Women's History Global, World War II
A Short History of Plumbing, Toilets, and Sanitation
In 1856, East Indian Railway Company workers summoned General Alexander Cunningham to the Indus River Valley site, where they had uncovered the ruins of an ancient city. The archaeologists who had...
Category: Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Early Modern Period, History of Islam, History of Science and Technology, History of the British Isles, History of the Indian Subcontinent, Indus Valley Civilization, Modern Period
Some more on the WWII Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai…
A month or two ago I made a post about the “Shanghai Ghetto,” the probable topic of my Master’s thesis. Since making that post I’ve done a large amount of research...
Category: Chinese Civil War, Chinese History, German Jewish History, History of Austria, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Immigration History, Japanese History, Jewish History, Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, Sephardic Jewish History, Sino-Japanese War, World War II
The Shanghai Ghetto
Welcome to one of those posts that is secretly derived from my thesis research. Contains mention of the Holocaust. My research is still in its early stages, so this breakdown of...
Category: Chinese History, Eastern European Jewish History, German Jewish History, History of Austria, History of Germany and German Speaking Lands, History of Poland, Holocaust History, Immigration History, Japanese History, Jewish History, Jewish Refugee Community of Shanghai, World War II