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Electro-plating with a hand generator, owing to absence of mains current, at the Scientific Apparatus Supply Service factory, Chengdu, Sichuan, 1943. Used by permission.

A newspaper on popular science displayed outside the Kansu Science Education Institute. Photographer: Joseph Needham, 1943. (photo provided by NRI) Used by permission.

Science for Youth one year anniversary issue reprinted in Minguo zhen xi duan kan duan kan (Short-lived and Ceased Periodicals from the Republic Era in Chongqing). Beijng. 2006. V. 4, p. 1923.

I earned a B.A. at Gettysburg College in History in 1972, having started my study of Japanese at Middlebury Summer School in 1971 and attended Princeton University to study Japanese language, history, and literature and Chinese Art History as a…

Scenes from the illustrated hand scroll of The Tale of Genji

Michael Baskett is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies. His area of specialization is Film History with an emphasis on Japanese and East Asian film studies. He is author of The Attractive…

Translation of Towazugatari by Nakanoin Masatada no Musume. One of the oldest books in print by a woman, The Confessions of Lady Nijō is a memoir written by a high-spirited Japanese Imperial court concubine, covering the years 1271 to 1306. She tells…

Translation of: Torikaebaya monogatari. This late Heian period novel relates the story of a sister and a brother who are cross-gendered. The sister passes as a man and serves at the Imperial court as “Chūnagon (Middle Counselor)” and even…

John Dardess, Professor Emeritus of History, retired in 2002 after thirty-five years of teaching East Asian, Chinese, and Inner Asian history to students at KU. He is the author of six books and many articles on Yuan and Ming history. His latest is…