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Took my Modern China class to visit @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social yesterday! The incredibly talented librarian and my fellow China historian Mårten Söderblom Saarela and his colleagues brought out all sorts of interesting materials for us! What a treat!

Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause

Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽

‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

A student sent me this meme!

Used this pic in class and one student called Puyi's this look "a bold fashion statement"! (source: theme.npm.edu.tw/exh105/Photo...)

Touring China: A History of Travel Culture, 1912-1949 What if China’s ‘unity’ was never a map, but a story travelers told themselves?

I did this interview almost a year ago, which summed up the general ideas of my book. (As a platform, Faculti is really easy to work with in case you want to know.)

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details:

LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

(This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Found this during class prepping: Chinese photographer Jin Shisheng (with glasses) in Venice in 1938. Jin was on his way to Germany to study and was stuck in Europe for 7 years.

Restorative justice is one of the most meaningful applications of archival work; the CRRJ project at Northeastern is an excellent example of that. I am honored to work alongside colleagues who help shape and grow the CRRJ’s Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.

Case study: Hybrid and born-digital processing at The New School

It was such a tough time when Irene was working in New York and we were going back and forth in late pandemic days. But she still made the best of it. Here’s a glimpse of what she had achieved there! @willow-branch.bsky.social

Seeing this in Freiburg today makes me think about what’s happening in universities now!

Sorry for your loss, my friend. Sadly, there's really no cure for grief...

Hands down the best meal I had in Venice! Made by Tsinghua students and future environmental engineers!

Yuri Kochiyama

Black & Asian Solidarity: Kochiyama Archives Conference. THIS WEEKEND! Go if you are in NYC!

In Rome, the morning of Pope’s funeral.

Venice from air!

See you in Kathmandu!

A chinoiserie door from the 1760s (the only surviving original furnishing of this palazzo)!

有幸受邀在威尼斯参加了清华大学同学们的团日活动！

Gail Hershatter, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance - positions politics I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...

RIP, Gao Xiaoxian (1948-2025) 高小贤 老师
positionspolitics.org/gail-hershat...

Donate to Myanmar Earthquake Emergency: Save & Rebuild Lives Now, organized by Min K Help Us Save and Rebuild Lives After the Devastating Earthquake in Myanma… Min K needs your support for Myanmar Earthquake Emergency: Save & Rebuild Lives Now

A student in the study abroad program I am teaching at is from Myanmar. They shared some donation links for earthquake relief. Please chip in if you can!

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Venice in Chinese Art 颜文梁 Yan Wenliang (1893-1988) 1930, 布面油画 oil on canvas

Venice in Chinese Art

上班途中遇到的好声音

Sad but true!

Literally!

High tide

A memorial plate in Venice Ghetto dedicated to Dr. Giuseppe Jona, who destroyed records of Jewish patients before killing himself in 1943 (in fear of giving up names under torture). Today, there’s a hospital in Venice named after him. A small reminder of courage in times of cruelty.

A little pink won’t hurt.