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

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

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.12/mode/1up

This is the last issue released before Japan’s invasion of Southeast Asia and attack on Pearl Harbor. Some mention of tensions and negotiations, but strange to read this issue in the light of what is unfolding soon after it goes to press.

#primarysources #japan #histodons

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

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.11/mode/1up

In this issue there is an article “China, United or Disunited” by former diplomat Yonayama Tsuneo that provides a good example of the delusional thinking in wartime Japan about China. 1/

#primarysources #japan #china #histodons

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

https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.10/mode/1up

Among the articles in this issue is another article by Thomas Baty on “Patriotism” in which he attempts to argue that “Patriotism is an amiable hobby with the Occidental: religion an individual fancy with the Japanese. Each has his own object of absolute surrender.”

#primarysources #japan #histodons

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

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

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

July, 1941
https://archive.org/details/contemporary-japan-1941.7

Among the articles in this issue is one on Japanese “juvenile stories” and “juvenile art” by Christian children’s author Koide Shōgo (小出正吾 1897-1990). He closes the piece by tracing, without criticism, the rise of nationalism in youth literature, but this seems a sad contrast to some of his own award winning stories.

#primarysources #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

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

I've scanned some more wartime Japanese propaganda pamphlets and posted to Internet Archive. Because they are in English, they can be useful to give students in my Japanese Imperialism module a taste of the kinds of justifications and patterns of logic used by pro-Japanese writers in wartime.

What Is Japan Fighting For: The Truth About the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937)
https://archive.org/details/what-is-japan-fighting-for-1937

How The North China Affair Arose (1937)
https://archive.org/details/how-the-north-china-affair-arose

#japan #histodons #primarysources

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

Today I just want a share a few of the fun and random things I have stumbled on at @internetarchive lately. First up, over a dozen issues of "Mujeres Libres" - an anarchist women's magazine from Spain (1936-1939) published through the civil war. https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Mujeres+Libres%22&sort=-date

#spain #histodons #internetarchive #primarysources

Historians make use of an immense variety of primary sources in their teaching efforts. What’s a primary source you find yourself making frequent use of? Do students react a certain way to a source? Museum visitors? Friends and family? Let us know in the replies below! How do you teach the source? How do you teach the silences of a source?
#WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary #History #Histodons #Pedagogy #PrimarySources

While we remain closed to normal activity to protest Reddit’s API changes, we are running one daily Floating Feature. Today’s theme is “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.”

What's your favorite document from your field of study? Is there something you've come across in an archive that was unusual? Come share with us!

#history #histodons #primarysources

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/14wov6e/floating_feature_the_pen_is_mightier_than_the/

I scanned and posted to Internet Archive a 1957 book on "common sense" or common knowledge around eating and drinking published in Hong Kong:

飲食的常識
https://archive.org/details/yinshi-de-changshi

#internetarchive #primarysources #foodhistory #histodons

I found another Malay language textbook for Chinese speakers in a used bookstore in Singapore from 1956. Looks like it may have been published in Penang, Federation of Malaya. I have scanned and posted to Internet Archive:

馬來語會話 1956
https://archive.org/details/malaiyu-huihua

#penang #malaysia #primarysources #histodons #asianists #internetarchive

In 1960 Radio Singapore broadcast a series of Malay language lessons. I found two volumes of the textbooks that accompanied the broadcast in an used bookstore. I have scanned and put them on the Internet Archive.

Belajar Bahasa Melayu dengan Radio Singapura (1960)
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapura

Book 3
https://archive.org/details/belajar-bahasa-melayu-dengan-radio-singapura-book-three/mode/2up

#singapore #malaysia #histodons #asianists #TootSEA #primarysources #internetarchive

If anyone wants to work on their cursive Chinese writing, you might consult this old 1955 book published in Hong Kong that I found in less than great condition in a flea market here in Singapore. Scanned and posted to internet archive:

鋼筆快寫字彙
https://archive.org/details/gangbi-kuaixie-zihui/mode/1up

#chinese #china #primarysources #language #asianists #internetarchive

I continue to be fascinated by old Malay language textbooks for Chinese speakers. Here is another one from 1959. I scanned and put on IA. The book included two added slips from owner. One was a newspaper snippet, but the other a typed vocab list of vocab including words like "gengster" (私會黨). But has "banyak" (many) listed as "very busy" (很忙), isn't that a mistake?

Pemimpin Bahasa Melayu 馬來亞國語指導
https://archive.org/details/pemimpin-bahasa-melayu/mode/1up

#malaysia #singapore #histodons #primarysources #internetarchive #tootSEA

I bought an old 1959 history textbook for primary school students in Singapore. Scanned and posted to Internet Archive:

歷史 (四下)
https://archive.org/details/lishi-sixia/mode/1up

#singapore #TootSEA #malaysia #histodons #asianists #primarysources #internetarchive