Frog in a Well

If you are looking for a good new book to help you teach pre-Onin War Japan may I recommend Thomas Conlan’s Kings in All but Name: The Lost History of Ouchi Rule in Japan, 1350-1569?1

If you do Republican period Chinese history you know that the various versions of the Chinese state loved graphical representations of data. (This may be something they picked up from the Japanese, who seem to have done a lot of this as well....