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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@historianzhang.bsky.social

Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295

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Can't see who it is either

09.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Not a ban just don't feel like wasting time grading obviously AI tuned essays

18.12.2025 00:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm going to completely give up take home essays next year

17.12.2025 17:09 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Alas it's now been downscaled to a book on the history of Taiwan's tea industry

17.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Peter Perdue's China Marches West is a great book, but this part is off by 100 years. My paper next month at Academia Sinica would argue that "outsourcing war" as I call it was probably integral to the Qing war effort against the Zungars

10.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gotta try that

17.10.2025 03:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's a real gem and quite useful, even if frequently a little wrong but can't expect perfection when someone tries to do this for China for like 2000 years of history

16.10.2025 23:53 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I've seen that transcription AI in action. It's... Ok, but missed a lot of details, and also isn't so good at catching academic speak

16.10.2025 23:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good question. My view is if a student works enough on it with an AI bot so that the end product ends up original and good I don't mind it as much... Not like you can stop them anyway

Rare though, from what I can see

16.10.2025 23:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Few thoughts on AI student essays:
1) they're mostly not using it to write their work wholesale, but as something to sketch out the essay and then put their own content in that skeleton
2) because of that, most end up sounding very similar
3) emphasize originality in grading

16.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Yeah debating what to do with essays. I don't want to completely give it up

13.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hah pretty sure they have plenty of data already

12.10.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Presented by Dean of Students Office!

12.10.2025 18:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes it's next to our campus Starbucks

12.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But really, I don't understand student psychology here. When the paper is 1) obviously AI and 2) full of hallucinations, why would you hand in something like this? It's a zero. Anything is better than a zero

12.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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I can use a turn in this after grading yet another obviously AI generated paper

12.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

I wouldn't know lol

03.09.2025 22:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Not on here much. Wouldn't touch these with a ten foot pole

16.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just this morning I was thinking to myself I don't have enough Munch conducting Berlioz, and then the gods answered

17.07.2025 20:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How to party 101

06.06.2025 03:48 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The very definition of having a good time

18.05.2025 17:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Surprised to see this for sale and hasn't been picked up

30.04.2025 10:11 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Is there an easy way to import a thread from Twitter? Asking for a friend

21.04.2025 04:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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We all know what we are going for I guess

08.04.2025 13:20 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Visited a tea maker in Yuchi who had these top prize plaques stacked up on the side because he didn't have enough wall space for them

01.04.2025 13:52 — 👍 39    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

One of the fun things about archival research is that the thing you called up can be a single sheet of paper or a thousand pages

19.03.2025 15:27 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Yeah the country took a few wrong turns which got us here

14.02.2025 11:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My relatives told me their kids sleep five hours a day

14.02.2025 04:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Someone should write a book connecting 9/11, the Great Recession, and this current moment where the US tries to give up its role as the dominant superpower

14.02.2025 04:17 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0