East Asia
“Foreign Customs are Now Generally Understood Throughout Japan”: Foreign Influence on Japanese Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Discussion of how the Japanese understood foreign influences
“Steel is the Mother of Industry”: Teaching the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan
Discussion of the Second Industrial Revolution in Japan
“The Lesson to be Drawn for Japan”: The Origins of Japanese Industrialization
Discussion of teaching the origins of Japanese industrialization
“A Turning Point in My Life”: East Asia in the Forty Years’ War
Discussion of teaching East Asia in the World Wars
“Opium Was One of Those Things”: Rethinking How We Teach the Nineteenth-Century Opium Trade
Discussion of teaching the nineteenth-century opium trade
“Looking For Hope, Betterment”: Global Migration, c.1920 - c.1960
Discussion of teaching global migration from 1920 to 1960
“The Way of Ruling a State”: Tokugawa Japan and Bureaucratic Elites
Discussion of how Tokugawa Japan encouraged samurai to also become civil officials
Visualizing the Increased Use of Gunpowder
Teaching the use of gunpowder using paintings
“The City Can Neither Go On Nor Maintain Itself without these Chinese”: Manila’s Chinese Community in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Discussion of teaching the influence of Manila’s Chinese Community in the 16th and 17th centuries
“Seven Snowfalls Until the Spring”: The Little Ice Age and Tokugawa Japan
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in Japan
