HeyJaredMostly Asian History
Asian, Chinese, and Chinese-American history and culture, mostly, Issues in pseudohistory or false claims about historical events. Since January 2025, I have been writing about American politics and current events as well. I couldn't help myself.
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Writing Popular History in the Absence of Factual Data - There’s an art to it. (opens the original)
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Important Publication Schedule ChangeGreetings,First, Mostly Asian History is not going away, but it is switching from a weekly publication schedule to a biweekly release of new pieces focusing on Asian history, mostly. For the rest of 2026, I plan to write and release a new piece on Asian history every two weeks instead of every week. For the next two months as we near New Years, I will be offering reprints of selected old pieces on the off weeks. Based on the reader numbers most of these will
Weird Foreign People from the West Come to Korea and Cause Unbelievable Trouble Nineteenth Century Korean Isolationism, Part 3 (opens the original)
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Greetings, Welcome to Mostly Asian History, an online, reader supported publication where I offer a piece at least once a week on Asian history, mostly. (Usually Sunday 50m EST but once in a while like today it’s late) Although the original plan two and a half years ago was to never ever discuss politics or mention the name Donald J Trump, with the advent of Trump 2.0 and all the connected problems, I do sometimes share my thoughts on the state of the nation and the world here where I have a pla
POLITICS -- Mobilizing for the November Election. But how exactly? (opens the original)
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Greetings, Welcome back! Unless you are new here, in which case be forewarned that while this column, Mostly Asian History, is devoted to Asian History, Mostly, and that is its priority and intent, like everything else in the United States in the year 2026, this column has become politicized and at times divisively so. If this really bothers you, well stop reading right now, but please do come back next time and avoid any column of mine that is marked “POLITICS.” I do try and label them for the
The “Old China Trade” and late 18th, early 19th Century Chinese American interactions. (opens the original)
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Greetings, First, I got several comments on my last column on Western Expansion and Colonialism. No one was really wrong, and they can all pretty much be summed up as “I think you left out something important. You should have written about ___________ in more detail.” None were really wrong. Two said I should have gone into more detail about Japan and how it went from underdeveloped, isolationist non-Western nation to being a colonial power and the Colonial ruler of Korea (and Taiwan and elsewhe
Western Expansion and Colonialism (opens the original)
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Greetings, This was originally written and published in this column in July of 2024. I am resharing it, with some editing and modifications, because it provides context for almost all interactions between China, Korea, and all Asian nations and peoples and representatives of Western Civilization that took place from about 1500 onwards. The actual scope and true impact of Western expansion in global history is something few of us here in the United States give much thought to despite the obvious
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