Korea
The Popularity of East Asian Buddhist Woodblock Prints
Discussion of using images to teach continuity of Buddhism in East Asia
“Indirect Ways of Expressing our Patriotism”: Centering Women in Teaching Anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
Discussion of teaching women’s anticolonialism in the 1920s and 1930s
“For the Right of Every People to Govern Themselves”: Challenging Empire in 1919
Discussion of how to teach 1919 as the start of decolonization.
Monthly Digest: March 2023
Monthly Digest for March 2023
“We Were Not Free”: American and Japanese Imperialism, c.1860 - c.1940
A discussion of how to teach American and Japanese imperialism using sources from the Philippines and Korea.
Stepping Out from Zheng He’s Shadow: World History, Ming China, and Greater East Asia in the Fifteenth Century
Most authors of world history textbooks and world history teachers seem to love the voyages of Zheng He. The treasure ships dwarfed all contemporary ships, the two main individuals (the Yongle Emperor and Admiral Zheng He) were larger than life characters, and there were African giraffes being mistaken for mythical