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Really looking forward to talking about my second book project at KU Leuven in a bit over a week. Much thanks to Hilde De Weerdt

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New on episteme in positions politics, china and histories of the working class positionspolitics.org/episteme-11/

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I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the American Academy for Arts and Sciences' Sarton Prize for the History of Science! Many thanks to the countless people whose support helped make this possible. www.amacad.org/news/victor-...

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Since the 2000s, PRC resilience has been bolstered through the expansion of welfare programs and improvements in efficiency. Challenges will emerge if welfare provision is no longer guaranteed for poor or economic stagnation seriously weakens the state. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Lecture series on (Chinese) "Philology and Esotericism" by Michael Lackner (朗宓榭) organised by National Cheng-chi University and live streamed on Youtube: tinyurl.com/3cbdu2pk.

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New book: Fiona Williamson’s “Imperial Weather: #Meteorology, Science, and the Environment in Colonial #Malaya” Link: shorturl.at/wuLF8 #envhist

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New talk on Zoom about agricultures (emphasis on the plural) in different parts of #China on Feb. 26, Wednesday, 5 pm EST. Here is the registration link: hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #envhist

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Congrats to UVA colleague @neetinair.bsky.social and Stanford kōhai Narusa Yamato on their well-deserved AAS prizes! Big congratulations as well to @sixwang.bsky.social for writing the seminal text on Ming-Chosŏn relations! www.asianstudies.org/aas-2025-pri...

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Very excited about @melissakchan.bsky.social & @badiucao.bsky.social coming to SoCal to talk about their graphic novel collaboration, w/a stop at UCI (details TK) and an event at one of my favorite museums, Culver City's @wendemuseum.bsky.social on March 8 www.eventbrite.com/e/you-must-t...

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@tyingknots.bsky.social We’ve finally started (slowly) uploading pieces from our WeChat public account onto the website, now with English titles and abstracts! This is a fantastic read, written by brilliant young scholars in China, whom I worked with as an editor. tyingknots.net/2025/01/%e5%...

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Great chart. To note: China, with 17% of the world's population, accounted for 40% of the world's green energy expenditures in 2024. But it is yet to reduce its consumption of coal. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

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To welcome the Year of the Snake, we’re launching a new series looking at belief in China. Young Chinese people are increasingly turning to spirituality - even online manifestations of it - and feng shui, in this moment of high unemployment and economic stress. (1/3)

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The first review of Slaves of the Emperor has come out in JAS. Thanks to Yan Hon Michael Chung for the generous review of what he calls "a conceptual revolution of understanding the Eight Banners and the Qing rulership." read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...?

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Here's a sneak peak from our upcoming episode to be released this week. Historian @tristangbrown.bsky.social discusses how the Qing dynasty used feng shui to maintain peace and legitimacy.

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My #WorldLeprosyDay essay has just dropped. My theme this year: seeing leprosy's globalization during the Middle Ages as a slow pandemic. As w/ all of my infectious disease historical work, combining traditional history, bioarchaeology, and genetics transforms what's possible. #histmed 🧪

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Another episode of the Chinese History Podcast is live! Featuring an interview with Professor Scott Pearce on the Northern Wei. Listen to it first on the website

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Joined @originalsp.in and @angryasianman.bsky.social on #TheyCallUsBruce yesterday to explore the good, the bad, and the WTF of the discourse around birthright citizenship in the U.S., alongside author Ava Chin. theycallusbruce.libsyn.com/they-call-us...

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It's a bye week for This Week in China's History over at the Sinica substack; back next week. But in the meantime, the new pandas go on display at DC's National Zoo for the first time today! Here's a callback to my column on the start of panda diplomacy: thechinaproject.com/2020/12/02/a...

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For #woodblockWednesday, here’s a page from the zaju drama “Judge Bao Thrice Investigates the Butterfly Dream” which I’ll be reading in translation with my undergrad seminar this and next week. Some students asked if I could share the original too. I love those kinds of nerds. My people! 🀄️📚

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It's an understatement to say that I'm honored, to join Soren Edgren this summer in offering another iteration of his iconic week-long survey on Chinese book history. First-round application is due Feb. 17: rarebookschool.org/courses/hist...

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A cool, interactive 2025 horoscope for snake babies and beyond. Nicely put together by SCMP!

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The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more, including how to apply: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

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Get started in Type Design for FREE As in: Free Tuition Free Glyphs license Free Adobe Creative Commons license Apply here for the SILICON Type Design Incubator, powered by @wordsoftype.com @adobelive.bsky.social @letterformarchive.org forms.gle/SfF884rQuDCW...

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Excited to share some ideas from my forthcoming book, under contract with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social 's Department of Human Centered Design on May 2, 2025. Don't miss the Fashion Exhibition! Details here: events.cornell.edu/event/fashio...

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My review of Peter Bol's Localizing Learning: The Literati Enterprise in Wuzhou is out in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. A must-read book please check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/109/arti...

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if thoughtfully curated & distributed , a series of Ming and Qing novels in English translation might generate general readerly attention and interest one data point to this effect: the french translation of an early Qing romance Two Fair Cousins 玉娇梨, a lesser work, was a bestseller in 1826

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As I recently discovered as part of a governing group fed funded org, any votes that piss off a single member of Congress can tank your budget forever. So as long as federal funds are in the mix, orgs are choosing between being able to exist and symbolic votes.

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China's Sina News reports Xiaohongshu is scrambling to hire English-language "content auditors" (审核员, i.e. censors) due to the influx of US users. They're offering monthly wages of RMB7,000-900 (USD955-1,230). This is over twice what Chinese-language censors make: finance.sina.com.cn/tech/roll/20...

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Full-Time Research Fellow Position in Ming-Qing History at Academia Sinica (apply by March 31, 2025): tinyurl.com/5fzcrrck

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Scoop: we identified 3 outsourcing companies that are urgently hiring English-speaking content moderators to work for Xiaohongshu / REDNote, a sign that the platform is scrambling to grow its censorship capacity as thousands of TikTok refugees come in. www.wired.com/story/xiaoho...

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The hellscape that is highly precise Japanese scholarship on 8-10th century papermaking is slowly eroding my will to live. But also the papers are so nice they make surviving examples from elsewhere look like trash. Compare to 866 Islamic digitalcollections.universiteitleiden.nl/view/item/20...

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I really appreciated this belated obit for Karon Wynn Fonstad, cartographer of the Tolkien Atlas (and the maps for Dragonriders of Pern!) and not only for this killer quote re the Tolkien Atlas, "It was like the Velvet Underground of fantasy mapmaking": www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

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3yr Junior Research Fellowship (PhD at hand or Postdoc) in Manuscript and Text Cultures at Queen's College, Oxford (apply by Feb 17): www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

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The University of Glasgow History Department has just advertized a tenure track position in early modern and modern Asian history with a strong interest in Chinese and East Asian history: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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I have several colleagues do great thing in broader China Studies at Sheffield. So worrisome. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sh...

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Very cool talk coming up in Berlin at Freie Universität by @jwassers.bsky.social, author of the forthcoming book: THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE: INSIDE ASIA'S STRUGGLE AGAINST AUTOCRACY AND BEIJING. 🗓️ January 20! DETAILS: berlincontemporarychinanetwork.org/events/detai...

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Great opportunity to join an amazing community of scholars!

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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Northeastern Center of Emerging Markets will host Dean Kellee Tsai for her talk, "Party-State Capitalism in China" on Wed. 1/22, 12:00 - 1:30. Please see link below for registration and more information. damore-mckim.northeastern.edu/events/party...

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The @usjf.bsky.social will award the inaugural United States-Japan Foundation Scholar Dissertation Award at our 2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver. If your dissertation is dated between Jan. 1, 2024 and June 13, 2025, you're eligible to submit it for the competition!

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It’s probably the earliest case of Chinese daily/commercial content appearing in media under Dutch East Indies rule. Samarang Courant, 1852, lithography. KB.

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Reuters: China Rolls Out Plan to Tackle Growing Issue of Dementia Full text of plan [应对老年期痴呆国家行动计划 (2024-2030年)] here: www.nhc.gov.cn/cms-search/x... www.reuters.com/world/china/...

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Received The Extraordinary in the Mundane: Family and Forms of Community in China, edited by Becky Yang Hsu. I'm honored and delighted to write an endorsement for this important volume:

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Are you interested in Song-dynasty poetry? Okay, well, how about cats? You like cats, right? http://burninghouse.substack.com/p/the-naming-of-cats-and-an-offering

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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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