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"We’re facing an unsustainable rate of reinfection for an unsustainable percentage of the population with a virus that carries an unsustainably high risk of long-term damage."

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This is a very thoughtful piece from Benjamin Breen, reflecting on how we do history and why AI isn't up to the task.

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A summary that causes useful displacement. Graff is engaging here in a practice some historians have referred to as "reciprocal comparisons"--using the standards applied to an "other" (or generated by an other) to assess the control (usually an idealized model) against which it is normally compared.

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I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem Resharing for all the wins and losses of this hour

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A small action you can take today; took me less than 5 minutes to do this (I got answering machines in both cases). If you are in PA, your senators' direct contact info is: John Fetterman: (202) 224-4254 David McCormick: (202) 224-6324

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This thread is very good. One of the critical lessons from modern Chinese history (by which I mean post-roughly 1500) is that good governance that encourages human flourishing correlates to state legitimacy and longevity.

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One of the easy things in Chinese history class is that ‘天災人禍’ is always a right answer to ‘how did this dynasty end’

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Here in rural central Kentucky, I’m surrounded by 10-day-old snow and ice that just won’t melt. Here’s a painting of a heron in winter by Ohara Hōson 小原豊邨 (1877-1945) and a photo that I took of heron tracks in the snow near my home. #heron #鷺 #oharahōson #小原豊邨 #winter #雪

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The Rednote discourse can be a bit ridiculous, but I propose instead of mocking the wide-eyed innocents we encourage them all to start studying Chinese! Let's light a candle instead of cursing the darkness (and, as a bonus, improve college Chinese enrollments)...

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Another great piece from @juliadoubleday.bsky.social: LA's slow response to protect the health of its citizens from the dangers of smoke/particulate inhalation reflects the politicization of masking and the concerted and ongoing effort to deny airborne transmission of disease.

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David Lynch spent the last portion of his life in isolation. He said it was due to being high-risk and unable to risk getting COVID. He’s not the only person with disability or illness who’s been left behind. Everywhere you go without an n95 is a place you’ve decided disabled people don’t belong.

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Boy with his very impressive kite, Chihli (Hebei), c.early 1920s by JT McGarvey for the National Geographic

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Balinese female leader in Chinese community in the Dutch east Indies: after the death of Captain Yan Erguan (颜二观, or Gan Djie) in 1666, a Balinese concubine of his was appointed by Governor-General Van der Lijn as the new Chinese captain. 1/3

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Yesterday's daily poem from The Poetry Foundation (Beehive by Jean Toomer) feels resonant: "And I, a drone, Lying on my back, Lipping honey, [...] Wish that I might fly out past the moon And curl forever in some far-off farmyard flower."

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Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today. I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:

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Post from Yale’s Long Covid blog w/ Lisa Sanders on economic impacts of LC drawing lots of findings in coherent narrative. It’s hard to get my mind around the long term reverberations because it seems so potentially destabilizing.

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Test, mask, stay home if sick. Do it for your own health, do it to protect those who are vulnerable.

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Big congratulations to Professor Tristan Brown and Professors Haiyan Lee and Michael Ng for their well deserved recognition!

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Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870-1948) Snow at Nezu Shrine Series:Tokyo Views #japanese #woodblock

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Thinking for some reason about my teacher, Jonathan Spence. With the third anniversary of his passing (Christmas day) approaching, I would like to share this remembrance of him (and my favorite book of his) that I wrote for my @thechinaproject.bsky.social column thechinaproject.com/2022/01/26/t...

submitted 76 days ago • 6 comments

Jeff chose my new book as one of his five for 2024! I’m beyond flattered to be in this great company. (Michelle King’s book is amazing - highly recommend; and my review of Westad & Chen’s book will be out w/TLS soon - I loved it too.)

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IT'S A WONDERFUL ESSAY: The last few days before Christmas is when people usually tend to rewatch 'It's a Wonderful Life.' Can I commend to you this really superb essay we published a few years ago? It could change the way you understand that movie. www.thebulwark.com/p/there-is-n...

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Ooo, winter break reading!

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Yesterday, a copy of Julian Gewirtz's "Never Turn Back" arrived in the mail and is sitting on my desk, waiting to be read. This morning, this learned review of it by Els van Dongen was posted on H-Asia. Worth reading for those interested in Gewirtz's book. networks.h-net.org/group/review...

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Loved reading this piece from @astoks.bsky.social on XJP archival efforts to manifest the integration of Marxism and Confucianism

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Have been pointing a lot of people recently to Carter Eckert's biography of Park Chung-hee to help contextualize the current moment in SK politics, and learned this morning that he's just passed away. An incredibly generous person and brilliant scholar. May his memory be a blessing.

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