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kellyahammond.bsky.social
Associate Professor of East Asian History | Associate Director of International and Global Studies | Associate Editor for Modern China at The Journal of Asian Studies | Accidental military historian
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Here's the Table of Contents, for those who are interested:

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You can now order the edited collection I contributed a chapter to: "The Greater Second World War" edited by Andrew Buchanan and Ruth Lawlor (Cornell, 2025). It was such a pleasure working and collaborating with all the authors in this volume! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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🚨New article alert!!!🚨 Doujie Zhaxi (or Dorje Tashi) has a great new article out in China Quarterly: “Beautiful Countryside”: Green Development and the Making of Rural Urbanization in China." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Many Americans won't remember the tainted formula scandal in China in 2008, where melamine was added to formula. Kids died. 50,000+ kids were hospitalized. This was a massive food safety issue that resulted in much stronger controls over food production in China. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

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Dr. Kelly Hammond, as imagined by ChatGPT:

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Making new friends on Sunday at the ag park.

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Happy Caturday to all who celebrate!

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Apply to Cohort IX of the Public Intellectual Program with the National Committee on US-China Relations! Seems like a really pertinent time to get together new voices of public intellectuals on US-China dialogue. DM me with any questions about the program: www.ncuscr.org

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In the early 1930s, the Japanese really admired Bai Chongxi's military abilities. Writers compared some of his struggles with Chiang Kaishek to Uesuji Kenshin and Takeda Shingen who were both powerful daimyō from the Sengoku period known for their military prowess and strategic planning abilities.

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Happening THIS Thursday!!!

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Open access publication! My book is now available open access for everyone to read and download free on the @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... A brief thread about the book /1

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Three months free of Amazon and Whole Foods. It was an adjustment at first, but it is pretty easy to maintain after I figured it out. Local chicken and egg supplier and monthly fish delivery helps too. 🐔🍳🐟

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A very literal interpretation of decoupling: www.scmp.com/news/china/d...

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I contributed a chapter to this edited volume "The Greater Second World War" which will be out next month. It was a very intellectually fulfilling process to work with the authors and editors of this collection over the past few years. Enjoy! 🤓 🤗 www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

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We have another awesome event happening next week. Be sure to join us for Samee Siddiqui's talk about discourses of "World Religions" among South Asians in Tokyo in the period after the Russo-Japanese War and before World War I.

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Happening Tomorrow on our campus! Join us if you are around!

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More than 40 years on, I still sing this song all the time. 🦙🦙🦷🪥 Sesame Street was so formative for me, I can't even imagine my childhood (or my life) without it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCRG...

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#Thai officials secretly planned to deport #Uyghurs while making repeated public denials apnews.com/article/thai...

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I am a harsh critic of the Chinese government and its policies. Publicly. And I have never been denied entry.

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America's behavior is enabling other authoritarian regimes to take actions they might have considered more carefully before Trump's election:

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Second scientist recruited to PRC in the past two days. There is more of this to come and much more happening at lower levels: www.scmp.com/news/china/s...

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I don't want to listen to a 30 minute podcast. I want to read the 6 minute news article.

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@jwassers.bsky.social with an important editorial on Thailand's recent deportation of the Uyghurs to China with similarities and differences to a similar event ten years ago: www.npr.org/2025/03/08/n...

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I just got tickets to see Ziggy Marley and Burning Spear at the Momentary Museum in Arkansas. I'm going to see Digable Planets in Tulsa later this month. Am I 20 again?

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It's a really fabulous feeling when one of your PhD advisees gets a good job that they really wanted. 🤗

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My new @h-diplo.bsky.social review of Matthew Augustine's /From Japanese Empire to American Hegemony: Koreans and Okinawans in the Resettlement of Northeast Asia/ (Hawaii University Press, 2023.) networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

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