December 2015 – The Scholar's Stage

Every Book I Read in 2015

31 December, 2015Books and Literature

The library I brought with me when I moved to Taipei in November. This and a kindle. A new year has arrived, and that means it is time to post my annual list of every book I have finished since the last new year’s day. I have kept a list of every book I have […]

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East Asian Military History – A Few Historiographical Notes

18 December, 2015Dogs of War, History, Japan, Korea, Narrative, The Middle Kingdom

Recently the Samurai Archives devoted a few episodes of their podcast to dissecting the relationship between military history and Japanese studies. The lead discussant on the program is Nathan Ledbetter, who blogs once a year or so at Sengoku Field Manual but comments regularly at the Samurai Archives forums. In these episodes his focus is […]

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