Wow! That came up a lot faster than I expected! Asianhistory has officially surpassed 100,000 followers — and the indiegogo campaign (while not likely to meet the goal) has hit $1,000 so thank you all!
I’d like to celebrate 100,000 follows, so if anyone has any great suggestions, please drop something in my ask.
A quintessential component of summer in the Philippines: ice cream on a cone from your friendly neighborhood sorbetero––a sentiment obviously shared by President Ramon Magsaysay (seen here sporting a breezy polo printed with jockeys, reminiscent of one of his most iconic photographs).
Asian History and US History Minus White Guys has officially started an Indiegogo campaign.
I’m trying to raise a minimum of $10,000 to pay off the rest of my semester’s tuition and next semester’s tuition so that I can spend more time, money, energy, and effort here and at USHistoryminuswhiteguys! I’m currently $31,410 in debt with student loans, and at the end of next year, will have $42,500 in debt. I work a part time job and intern, and unfortunately not even scholarships, pell grants, or jobs can cover all my bills.
That’s where I’m asking my followers to step in!
I would like to change that, but I need everyone’s help.
It’s possible if I have your help! Please reblog and consider donating. We have 9 days left! :)
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youareshauni asked: I have two questions about the Edo period regarding the daily life in Edo (Tokyo), and I hoped you could help me with them. 1) How did the police force work? What did the members of the police force (like the yoriki, the doshin, etc.) do outside of work? The sources I found on this topics are few, contain little information which often conflict with each other on top of that. 2) Information on the daily spiritual life of the population. - Thank you very much for your time.
I get a few very specific asks like this from time to time, and I wish I could answer them better but more often than not, I can’t — especially if the questions are the sort of ones that could require serious research.
If you haven’t already, I’d advise you to peruse the various scholarly databases linked in the resources button on the top bar. These kinds of questions need major sifting (and frankly sound like research paper fodder, so I’m a little wary of doing the legwork for you). If sources are conflicting and any of the scholars are still alive, chances are you could look them up and shoot them an email!
Especially since I don’t know what information of value you’ve already run across, and what you haven’t, I’m not sure I can help besides pointing you towards the databases I use for research.
![Choi Seung-hee was born into an upper-class family in Seoul, Korea during the Japanese occupation and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of her name, Sai Shoki. After graduating from Sookmyung High School at the age of fifteen, she went against her father’s wishes to study under modern dancer Baku Ishii in Japan, where she distinguished herself as one of the most talented dancers. She developed her own modern dances inspired by Korean folk dances, which had been considered as lowly works. She was supported by Japanese intellectuals including Yasunari Kawabata.
She went to North Korea and got posts in the communist government. She was purged by the party and disappeared in the 1960s. In February 2003, she was rehabilitated and utilized for propaganda by North Korea, who announced that she had died in 1969. [Summary for The Story of a Dancer (DVD)]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4805a0b97eccca05d83f54878cc50ed0/tumblr_mn3t2kYph81ryz2izo1_500.jpg)
Choi Seung-hee was born into an upper-class family in Seoul, Korea during the Japanese occupation and was also known by the Japanese pronunciation of her name, Sai Shoki. After graduating from Sookmyung High School at the age of fifteen, she went against her father’s wishes to study under modern dancer Baku Ishii in Japan, where she distinguished herself as one of the most talented dancers. She developed her own modern dances inspired by Korean folk dances, which had been considered as lowly works. She was supported by Japanese intellectuals including Yasunari Kawabata.
She went to North Korea and got posts in the communist government. She was purged by the party and disappeared in the 1960s. In February 2003, she was rehabilitated and utilized for propaganda by North Korea, who announced that she had died in 1969. [Summary for The Story of a Dancer (DVD)]
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For whatever reasons, images are slow loading for me today. That said, many thanks to:
sportygurl106, worldzend, and many Anonymous folk!
Your donations mean everything to me, and I am eternally grateful. I am also going to immediately unpack my stationary and return to mailing things out now that I’ve moved out of my dorm.
Thanks again!
P.S. Everybody: We’ve surpassed 98,700 followers recently! I would love to hit the 100,000 mark by the end of summer!
These are examples of the nine-yard sari as worn in Maharashtra. The lower half is like the dhoti i.e. the cloth is taken between the legs and tucked into the back and the upper half is left loose unlike in the south. It seems to have been worn by almost all sections of society and everything suggests it was a more practical garment than the modern sari given Maratha and Deccan queens hunted and fought in the garment.
On the other hand once the tucks and drapes are in place it is also a garment that looks elegant and beautiful - a fact much exploited in the paintings of the Ravi Varma school.
In its truncated form, it is also a “sexy” sari and it appears in simple early 20th century illustrations as well as in Hindi cinema.
A modern photograph that clearly shows how the sari is tucked in at the back.
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Photos: Kyrgyz People Cling to Tradition in Forbidding Corner of Northern Afghanistan
Photographer Matthieu Paley spent more than a decade photographing the Afghan Kyrgyz people, who live in one of the world’s most remote and inhospitable areas.
Read the full story here
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The Mansoojat Foundation
The Mansoojat Foundation is a UK registered charity founded by a group of Saudi women with a passionate interest in the traditional ethnic textiles and costumes of Arabia.
Where We Go In The Future Is Determined
By Where We Have Been In The Past.The Mansoojat Foundation’s mission is to revive and preserve the traditional ethnic designs and costumes of the various regions of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; to promote and conduct academic research important for the understanding of the history and culture of the region, and to raise public awareness for the appreciation of this unique heritage.
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Asian History and US History Minus White Guys has officially started an Indiegogo campaign.
I’m trying to raise a minimum of $10,000 to pay off the rest of my semester’s tuition and next semester’s tuition so that I can spend more time, money, energy, and effort here and at USHistoryminuswhiteguys! I’m currently $31,410 in debt with student loans, and at the end of next year, will have $42,500 in debt. I work a part time job and intern, and unfortunately not even scholarships, pell grants, or jobs can cover all my bills.
That’s where I’m asking my followers to step in!
I would like to change that, but I need everyone’s help.
It’s possible if I have your help! Please reblog and consider donating. We have 16 days left! I would like to hit at least $1,000 before the time is up. :)
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