Danwei has a great post on why the Ming (1368-1644) is so hot these days. (And they’re not talking about the hobbled Yao, either.) Joel Martinson asks, “Has the Qing been mined to exhaustion as a source for popular culture, or have people simply grown tired of historical teledramas featuring costumed characters wearing queues?”
One of [...]
Stuck in the Middle with Wu or "How I stopped hating and learned to love the Ming Dynasty"
February 25th, 2007 · 3 Comments
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Another front opens in the China-Korea history wars
February 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Korean textbook writers have fired the latest salvo in the ongoing history wars between the ROK and the PRC. The textbooks have been revised to describe the Korean Bronze Age as starting 1000 years earlier than previous claims. The new textbooks date the beginning of the Bronze Age to about 2000 B.C.E. Further revisions state [...]
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