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{ Monthly Archives } December 2005

The Border Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed

When I read books or watch movies things go much faster when I don’t have access to the internet. A person, place, or event will pop up that catches my interest and I’ll end up googling it, or even more time consuming, searching for more information about it in various academic databases (MUSE, JSTOR, Lexis-Nexis, [...]

Asian History Carnival 2

Welcome to the 2nd bi-monthly Asian History Carnival. Thanks to those who offered submissions to the carnival. I think we have an excellent spread of region and time period but my choices reflect the range of submissions I received for inclusion and the limits of my own online reading. Remember, if you feel your region [...]

Asian History Carnival Deadline

The first Asian History Carnival was hosted over at Frog in a Well – Japan (井の中の蛙) in October. Next week on the 12th of December, I will be hosting Asian History Carnival #2 right here at Muninn. This is a bimonthly carnival, appearing in even months on the same day as the number of the [...]

Notes on the Making of East Asian Modernity

Pak Noja, who in addition to being a professor at the University of Oslo and an active public intellectual is also recently joined as a member of Frog in a Well, has posted a collection of very interesting class notes over at his Hankyoreh weblog related to East Asian history, and theoretical issues related to [...]