Lillian Tsay

Fieldwork always inspires more writing.

This French textbook assigned a text written by an English native speaker arguing that it is not necessary to learn French that hard bc English has dominated the French society….

海の向こうにいるのは…関税だ。

📌 Ateliers, conférences et projections pour explorer la richesse de ce patrimoine vivant
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A few months ago I replied "はい" to a French person and a few days ago I said "Oui" to a Japanese person...when will this mingling of languages stop 🫣

戦前・戦中の経済誌公開＝１９２８～４５年、９００冊―新聞通信調査会 公益財団法人「新聞通信調査会」（西沢豊理事長）は１９日、主に戦前・戦中に刊行されていた週刊経済誌「国際経済週報… 続きを読む →

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Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

My experiences with any random Japanese cuisine in Tainan has been great so far.

コナコーヒーのグローバル・ヒストリー（飯島 真里子）| 京都大学学術出版会 世界的に高品質として知られるハワイ島のコナコーヒー。200年にわたる栽培史には、日英米帝国の植民地的権力、アジア、ラテンアメリカからの労働移民と変化し続ける人種秩序、コーヒーの世界市場など、人・モノ・概念・技術のグローバルな〈移動〉が絡み合う。「周縁」の太平洋の島を結節点として捉え返すグローバル・ヒストリーの試み。

www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/978481...

つ、ついに！https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814005673.html?lang=jp

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Thank you!

About to submit my dissertation but stuck at like 3 bibliography entries’ page numbers lol.

Watched a five-hour documentary this afternoon plus one hour Q&A with the director and I think I deserve a treat 😴

Very honored to have my first poem published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!

The Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze - Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire Introduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Japan seized Germany’s territories in the North Pacific, having invoked its formal alliance with t...

A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already!

japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...

“Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise”

I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.

3 Body Problem’s opening is pretty striking and accurate IMO. As a non-specialist, I heard that the reality was way crueler than the show’s depiction…

“Farewell my Concubine” but it’s over 2 hours and not all the film is about CR, but the depiction of it is pretty striking.

7-11 and Family Mart’s coffee are actually pretty decent with a fair price imo, at least better than Japan’s.

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Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

Poster for Harvard Science and Technology in Asia talk by Sulfikar Amir on Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET.

How do those who reside in Urban Heat Islands cope with escalating temperatures?

Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir

Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia

#histstm #sts #envhist

A very good time to watch the show The Good Fight.

Tremendous thanks to the lady who gave me 30NTD on the bus bc I forgot to bring my card and don’t have any coins 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏

Episode 3 now. Favorite character(s) so far are the camels 🐫🐫🐫

Yeah and it’s so much like Hanzawa Naoki 😂 not just bc they have the same actor. The pacing is a bit weird in the middle but I like the ending scene of Mongolian landscape (hope this doesn’t count as spoilers!)

Yeah the opening scene was a bit incomprehensible, the ending scene is much better though! Heard mixed responses for this one so I'm just watching it out of curiosity (also to find something to watch when eating at home)