Chuck Wooldridge

I usually just block and delete these but luckily I have writers block and need to work it out

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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold

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The Ringer, @zachlowenba.bsky.social!

HE'S BACK, PEOPLE! #NBASky

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In new book, NPR's Emily Feng explores identity after China refused to let her return In 2022, the Chinese government told NPR's Emily Feng she was no longer welcome in China, where she'd lived and reported from for seven years. She says she hasn't lost claim to her Chinese identity.

“[Chinese] is a language that I've worked really, really hard to master, and it's a world that will never leave me. That's also part of the point of this book, is that being Chinese is not confined to the boundaries of the People's Republic of China." www.npr.org/transcripts/...

‘Heavyweight,’ an Acclaimed Narrative Podcast, Returns Pushkin Industries, the podcast company that will release the show, is betting that documentary-style audio programs can still win an audience.

We've got some big news: Heavyweight officially has a new home Pushkin Industries. Tell your friends, your exes… tell the strangers on the subway! And be sure to subscribe to the feed to hear about new episodes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/b...

I always thought that getting your kid to school should be the thing you write in red on your calendar, your main goal and achievement of the day. In my case, it usually was.

Tintype of indigenous american in European style dress

Tintype of African American man holding a top hat.

The Schomburg Tintype collection has a lot of digital copies of early photographs of African Americans and Indigenous Americans from mid #c19th.

Some really evocative portraits in there.

New York Public Library.
archives.nypl.org/sc...

Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß (~ a heil is a heil is a heil)

Or to put it more succinctly, the view from Germany:

again, a strange thing about the renewed enthusiasm for imperialism is that very few enthusiasts for imperial violence in any of these countries actually want to be the soldiers.

A screenshot of the text details of the event "New Books on Japan: 'Good Wife, Wise Mother' and 'Geographies of Gender'" from the Modern Japanese History Association website. There is a blue, black, and white book cover featured.

On Tuesday, next week!

Fang Yu Hu (Cal Poly Pomona) and Tadashi Ishikawa (Central Florida) on their new books “Good Wife, Wise Mother” and “Geographies of Gender”, respectively, in conversation with Seiji Shirane (City College of New York).

Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-5838693

New Book 🚨!!

The Politics of Sorrow, by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, uncovers the story of Amdo and Khampa chieftains and lamas who sought to protect local identities and traditions in exile rather than “embrace demands to shed regional allegiance and embrace national unity” @columbiaup.bsky.social

John Woo, Chow Yun-fat Classics Among 156-Film Golden Princess Library Acquired by Shout! Studios (EXCLUSIVE) Shout! Studios acquires 156 Hong Kong action classics from Golden Princess, including John Woo, Chow Yun-Fat hits like 'Hard Boiled' and 'The Killer.'

Holy crap! Shout Studios have untied the Gordian knot of John Woo's back catalogue!
variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Congrats @nlheller.bsky.social !

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Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, is recruiting a researcher specializing in Ming-Qing history! Application instructors in the link below #🀄️📚 #sinology #sinologists #history #chinesehistory

The only sexy American accent is whatever foghorn leghorn was doing

Clear, detailed explanation for *users* about how to do reports for Blacksky content moderation. So well done by Dr. KáLyn Coghill! @drkalyncoghill.bsky.social

Trust & Safety folks ought to read this.

Excited to announce that our next Project Funding cycle at @jppinfo.bsky.social is open! We are accepting applications for premodern, early modern, modern & contemporary, as well as transtemporal projects, though this cycle we are especially interested in funding premodern projects. ✌️

A narrow alleyway, whose sidewalks, parked cars, buildings, and trees are covered in a thick blanket of snow. On the left of the alley is a light-colored, two-story institutional building of some sort; straight ahead is a brick and metal gate with a sign reading “1865,” a few people standing at the gate, and beyond that, a parklike area filled with snow-frosted trees.

Photo: Nanjing under a snow blanket, by Edwin Wisse
chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/phot...

Shuge.org is a great website! I reviewed it for the @digitalorientalist.bsky.social - but there’s so much in there!

digitalorientalist.com/2022/01/18/7...

Kathleen Ryan: Sculpting Time | Gagosian Quarterly Art historian, curator, and writer Daria de Beauvais tracks Kathleen Ryan’s sustained and evolving engagement with the temporal, the memento mori, Americana, and ecology. The artist was the recent ...

"As beautiful as they are disturbing, these sculptures intertwine desire + unease. They question our relationship with allure + disgust while challenging the notion of value."

(I also wrote about Ryan's work: wordsinspace.net/2022/08/12/f...)

Chinese Works : Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu This is the earliest Chinese book printed by the technique of polychrome xylography known as douban invented and perfected

View all of these gorgeous images of birds, flowers, and rocks here, in a high quality scan of the copy held by Cambridge University Library cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-FH-0...

Why can’t we be kind? (A Pollyanna’s case for the nice review.) Every so often here in the Bookverse, someone hitches up their britches and pronounces criticism “dead.” They lament a media ecosystem driven by publicists, and actual or perceived read…

The case for kind book criticism.

I'm teaching "Theory and Method in Religious Studies" for the first time next semester.

For those who have taught a version of this course before, curious to hear: what readings would you recommend? What worked well? #ReligiousStudies #StudyOfReligion #Amrel

Polling on impeaching Pres. Yoon conducted Dec 4
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WHAT HAPPENED IN SOUTH KOREA?

Timeline of the #MartialLaw #SouthKorea 🇰🇷

Warm congratulations to Mu Cao 墓草 , a groundbreaking, dynamic, and immensely talented poet who has today won a Prince Klaus Impact Award. I first encountered Mu Cao when the translator Scott E. Myers sent me the following searing poem to publish in Epiphany Magazine:

Foreigner told Chinese is great even though it isn't.s

Eleven copies of our book “Countless Sands” are stacked one atop the other, with every other spine showing the title. One copy at left is facing out, to show the books cover.

First copies just arrived:

COUNTLESS SANDS: MEDIEVAL BUDDHISTS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTS (2025)

The publisher’s website is shipping now
go.hawaii.edu/bXG