Giorgio Strafella

Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025 A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

das Bildnis des italienischen Jesuiten Martino Martini im Gewand eines Beamten am chinesischen Kaiserhof.

Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."

US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.

📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
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Alexandre Kojève Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel’s dialectics, his idea of communism and his visi...

Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys

My condolences on your loss

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Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies

Radicalness in Suspension: From ‘Ge Yu Lu’ to Ge Yulu | Made in China Journal This essay presents a case study of the widely known—and at times controversial—artist Ge Yulu and his interventionist practice. Through an account of Ge’s life and career, including his early years a...

In this new essay, Sia X. Yang follows the journey of Ge Yulu, a once-precarious migrant artist whose bold gestures have been softened by institutional aesthetics. Yet a stubborn critical impulse endures—provoking, resisting, and reimagining the limits of art in contemporary China.

Our project website ‘Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe’ is now live! Visit the site here: dig.sainsbury-instit...

This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
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The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

Includes an article on late imperial Chinese pests and the duck method by Yubin Shen 🦆🦆🦆

Screenshot of the conference announcement if the Swiss Anthropological Association, showing a photo from Matthäus Rest of four men digging up a street.

📍Call for Panels!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!

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Fantastic chapters and an excellent editorial team

Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters:
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France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

EU is moving away from reliance on US tech companies, rather than replacing them with proprietary alternatives, they are investing in open-source solutions instead.

EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
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Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu #collegiumhistoriaeartium, kterou přednese Adam Przywara (Zürich) na téma Second Materiality of Warsaw: Building with Rubble in the Wake of World War II.

Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr.
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ANU Press Coming Soon: Cover image of Made in China Journal: Volume 9, Issue 2, 2024

Chinese #journalism is dead—long live #Chinese journalism!

The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today.

Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024

Thanks! Do you know who is the author/source of this image, please? (:

AAS is proud to join the Middle East Studies Association and African Studies Association in this letter to the Columbia University leadership urging it to stand strong for academic freedom.

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Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood on the history of buteh for @iias.bsky.social newsletter (2021) www.iias.asia/the-newslett...

I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.

After Art: Precarity and Expulsion in Songzhuang | Made in China Journal Wang Chunchen’s 2010 monograph on the changing role of art in Chinese society opens and ends with accounts of the forced resettlement of artists and the sudden demolition of their studios in Beijing’s...

Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.

Soas, 5 December 2024 - 7 December 2024: "Making the subject of portraiture in a trans–Asian context, ca. 1000-present day"
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Poster for the 18th edition of the Annual Conference on Asian Studies, which will take place in Olomouc on 22 and 23 November, 2024. Includes QR code to the conference website, acas.upol.cz. The theme of this year's conference is "Asian Temporalities: Chronologies, Seasons, Tenses." ACAS is organised by the Department of Asian Studies of Palacky University Olomouc, in the Czech Republic.

Programme and more information on this year's ACAS will be available soon on the conference website: acas.upol.cz

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs - Volume 53, Number 2, Aug 01, 2024 Table of contents for Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 53, 2, Aug 01, 2024

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Special Issue: China's New Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries, 2000–2022 journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccaa/53/2

Pečená švestková povidla Jsou skvělá na smažené bramborové placky, přidaná k pečenému kachnímu prsu, dají se jimi plnit rakouské knedlíky, které se podávají s mákem a…

Baked plum povidla:
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'Precarity in Urban China' Workshop at UCL, IAS Common Ground
Fri 21 Jun 2024 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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