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"Ab to Mai Bilkul Pagal Nahin Hu.." | Dharmendra Om Prakash Comedy Scenes | Chupke Chupke [12]
Among the greatest comedic turns in Hindi cinema. I can only imagine how much fun the entire cast must have had making this movie.
Farewell Dharmendra! And thank you for the good times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkZ...
24.11.2025 15:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Quantitative History of China
This Open Access book showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history based on large historical datasets.
New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist ποΈ
13.10.2025 16:31 β π 11 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0
Next week, @sandipto.bsky.social speaking on his new book.
polisci.mit.edu/events/2025/...
12.10.2025 20:17 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
26.09.2025 19:01 β π 21 π 18 π¬ 0 π 1
New Perspectives in Environmental History (2026)
| Environmental History at Yale
CFP: New Perspectives in Environmental History-One Day Conference
Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21
Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
17.09.2025 19:02 β π 0 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
China installs the world's most powerful wind turbine
Chinaβs Dongfang Electric has installed a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine, snatching the "worldβs most powerful" title from Siemens Gamesa.
New record: The worldβs most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed.
The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.
electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
07.06.2025 15:36 β π 41 π 17 π¬ 4 π 3
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
14.07.2025 15:07 β π 13 π 8 π¬ 1 π 0
THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
Prize Research Grants
The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html
28.06.2025 16:48 β π 13 π 8 π¬ 1 π 1
Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
17.05.2025 12:41 β π 4 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Today!!
21.04.2025 14:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The talk will be live streamed!
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
16.04.2025 16:56 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 1 π 1
Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho β Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China β Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
The final @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the AY will feature @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social, speaking on:
Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
April 21 @ 4:00 pm β 5:30 pm
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
14.04.2025 01:30 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Today!
04.03.2025 13:49 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen β Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese Peopleβs Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960. β Fairbank Ce...
The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese Peopleβs Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
03.03.2025 13:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
The Ugly Indians: Indiaβs Cheer-Led Diplomacy
it is well-established international relations theory that foreign policy is an extension of domestic politics, but Modi has taken the logic too far to mean that foreign policy is domestic politics by...
"...the βpolicy paralysedβ Manmohan Singhβs 2009-2014 term recorded 3,175 deportations while the Vishwaguru Narendra Modiβs 2019-2024 term recorded more than double that number at 7,583 deportations. Amritkaal it was indeed."
My dad's latest in @thewire.in.
m.thewire.in/article/dipl...
21.02.2025 16:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
16.02.2025 21:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Just came across this, and was reminded of Leo Breiman's classic essay in Statistical Science, now over two decades old.
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures
www.jstor.org/stable/2676681
10.02.2025 21:18 β π 0 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Independent family-run scholarly press publishing books and journals on environment and society
An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
environmental and political anthropologist
Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at US Naval War College
Professor of Energy & Climate Policy at University of Oxford
Energy Programme Leader at ECI, University of Oxford
Senior Research Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford
Senior Associate Institute for Sustainability Leadership, University of Cambridge
Associate Professor of History,
College of the Holy Cross
Living in Seoul... writing on empire, China, and America... watching the two Koreas... reminiscing about Rome
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania. I specialize in Chinese politics, authoritarian politics, and computational social science methods. (they/them) http://blakeapm.com
historian of medicine, science and technology; author of Statistics and the Langugage of Global Health (CUP,2022); PRIMA Assistant Prof @ UZH
Modern China historian based in the Blue Mountains, Land of the Darug and Gundungurra Peoples. Working on borders, frontiers, and roads. Author of Frontier Fieldwork (UBC 2022)
Assistant Prof in Environmental Governance & Business
University of British Columbia, Forestry & SPPGA
Co-Host @beltandroadpod.bsky.social
Political Ecology, China in Southeast Asia, Sustainable Supply Chains, Rubber, Land Grabs
julietlu.com
History PhD candidate at Harvard. Japanese colonialism in Korea, Taiwan and China; womenβs and gender history.
Professor at University of Cape Town researching climate change, mitigation, poverty, just transitions, inequality, global stocktake. Views are mine. Repost β endorsement
Historian teaching and researching at intersections of environment, technology, and Japan @ Kyoto University.
Associate Professor at UT-Austin. I study authoritarian politics, security, & East Asia, especially China and Korea.
Non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment & U.S. Army War College, editor of the Texas National Security Review. Views my own.
εδΈθ‘‘. Chinese history at St. John's University (NYC).
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