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konrad, 1 month ago to history

The historian Danna Agmon has a useful mnemonic for students to help them with reading academic scholarship in history: THOMAS (Topic, Historiography, Organization, Method, Argument, So What?)

https://dannaagmon.wordpress.com/teaching/

#histodons

konrad, 2 months ago to Scotland

Nice Sunday afternoon walk at Flotterstone in the Pentland Hills. #scotland

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konrad, 2 months ago to random

Heading to Bayerisch Eisenstein on German/Czech border for two weeks of walking, relaxation and reading in late June. Anyone have tips related to the broader region?

konrad, 3 months ago to history

Great to see this book out as open access:

Reimagining the Globe and Cultural Exchange: The East Asian Legacies of Matteo Ricci's World Map

https://brill.com/edcollbook-oa/title/68461?fbclid=IwAR1uZ8SRv-_cLTaCaSPmTq3mFazGAnQkVnxNdgipSApqbzXNpZiur63ljzI_aem_AZRzTwg2niHnJqGylayBRbrTgxFmH6gBHX27kGEZO3cW2iugd2dGAO5XxG_i3O-OxIE

#histodons #asianists #maps

konrad, 4 months ago to history

Hello #asianists I am slapping together an open access primary source resource page on modern Shanghai, mostly for students who can only work with English sources. I really love Virtual Shanghai materials but my students feel a bit lost there so thought I would deep link some of the materials there plus lots of other resources.

Just getting started, but would love your suggestions of great (mostly English language, but anything) sources I should add here:

https://froginawell.net/frog/primary-sources-history-of-modern-shanghai/

#histodons

konrad, 4 months ago to history

Said this before, but I really love reading through the blog posts of my students for a year long undergraduate honours module From City to Home: Spatial Histories of East and Southeast Asia. Lots of fascinating posts of late: https://www.spatialhistory.net/cities/posts/

You can see some of their reading over the course of this year listed here: http://www.huginn.net/cities/

#histodons #asianists

konrad, 4 months ago to random

Fascinating tale of fake articles retracted from Atlas Obscura https://thewalrus.ca/around-the-world-in-eighty-lies/

konrad, 6 months ago to llm

Here is another mini-task that I found large language models useful for today:

SometimeswhenIcopytextfromPDFsitremovesallthespaces.

It is easy to give a prompt to an #LLM such as #ChatGPT to have it add the spaces back in:

Sometimes when I copy text from PDFs it removes all the spaces.

konrad, 6 months ago to Taiwan

Any Taiwan connected friends here have any idea how to order books from Taiwan to send to the UK? I've had no luck with the international account set up at books.com.tw, for example (it never sends the SMS to any international number I give it for account confirmation). #taiwan

konrad, 7 months ago to random

Been thinking about digital accessibility, Word, and Markdown. Moving away from PDFs, my university (which I’m perfectly fine with) wants to predominantly move in two directions: HTML web documents (sometimes they are so far online only with heavy headers/footers) and Word documents (which various accessibility apps support). a) problem with the former is we lose the P from PDF = portable if they are only viewable online in a browser or bulky web archives and … 1/x

konrad, 8 months ago to Korea

One of my students pointed out this interesting blog post over the US Library of Congress with some nice map and pamphlet images:

Maps of Seoul, South Korea Under Japanese Occupation

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/05/maps-of-seoul-south-korea-under-japanese-occupation/

#korea #maps #histodons #asianists

konrad, 9 months ago to books

There is a wonderful 1947 documentary film on "Making Books" on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/MakingBo1947

If the link doesn't work on mobile, try this direct link to video file:

https://archive.org/download/MakingBo1947/MakingBo1947_512kb.mp4

#histodons #books #primarysources #internetarchive

konrad, 9 months ago to Japan

I have put together a deep linked list of the 1941-1945 issues that I have posted to the Internet Archive from "Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs"

Each article listed links to the page in the journal on Internet Archive. My hope is that this will be a useful resource for anyone teaching modern Japanese history who wants to provide students access to more interesting English language primary sources for analysis.

#histodons #japan @histodons

https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-source-nuggets/contemporary-japan/

konrad, 9 months ago to Japan

Posted a scan of the September, 1941 issue of Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs to Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.9

Among the articles in this issue is “Safeguarding French Indo-China” which attempts to both depict Japan as a defender of French empire in Indochina and make the case that it is simultaneously contributing to the creation of its anti-colonial vision of co-prosperity in Asia. 1/

#primarysources #japan

konrad, 9 months ago to Japan

I posted the August, 1941 issue of Contemporary Japan to Internet Archive over a year ago.

August, 1941
https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-august-1941/mode/1up

I wrote up a thread about the issue here back when I was on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/kmlawson/status/1515657267798020097

I'll repost that thread below to preserve here:

#primarysources #japan

konrad, 9 months ago to Japan

Posted a scan of the June, 1941 issue of Contemporary Japan: A Review of Far Eastern Affairs to Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.6

Articles include an exploration of castle building in Japan and the history of Japanese war literature. However, it also includes one of several pieces in the journal by the interesting international legal scholar Thomas Baty. 1/

#primarysources #japan #internetarchive #histodons

konrad, 9 months ago to Japan

In the next week or two, I'll will be scanning over thirty issues of "Contemporary Japan: A Review of Eastern Affairs" that I found on Ebay and posting them to the Internet Archive. As I share them here, I'll try to find time to point out some interesting articles of not along the way. Another great source for students: a mix of wartime analysis from a pro-Japanese perspective to deconstruct and cultural articles about Japan, including some familiar names.

#primarysources #histodons #japan

konrad, 9 months ago to Korea

In WWII, the US War Department's collection of language phrase books proliferated signficantly. I found a copy of the 1944 Korean phrase book that must have come in handy when US forces showed up on the peninsula in September, 1945. US forces were infamously ill equipped to engage with Korean locals, depending a lot on Japanese interpreters and Japanese speaking Koreans. Posted to IA:

TM 30-642 Korean Phrase Book https://archive.org/details/tm-30-642-korean-phrase-book

#primarysources #korea #histodons #internetarchive

konrad, 10 months ago to random

There are two (permanent) lectureships being recruited in the School of Modern Languages at the University of St Andrews. Consider joining us in a beautiful part of Scotland! Deadline: Aug 16!

"Candidates’ area of academic expertise must include at least one of the languages taught in the School (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish)."

Read more (I'm not part of the search, just passing on the info):
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBL268/lecturers-2-in-digital-humanities-modern-languages-comparative-literature

#DH #digitalhumanities

konrad, 10 months ago to random

Duolingo could have buried this literary reference a bit more by converting to 233 celsius 😜.

konrad, 11 months ago to random

I’d say a noticeably bolder claim in the Chinese version here: “A step forward [is] a great stride for civilization”