Andrea Janku

Manchu Studies at AAS 2026 – Vancouver The Manchu Studies Group will once again be holding a social meeting in conjunction with the annual Association for Asian Studies conference, which takes place next month in Vancouver, Canada. Our …

A great guide to Manchu Studies talks/panels at AAS: www.manchustudiesgroup.org/2026/02/22/m...

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New Mozilla Firefox version to allow AI features to be blocked Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser.

Mozilla will allow Firefox users to entirely block current and future generative AI features on the browser after user feedback revealed many who wanted an AI-free browser experience.

On Feb 7 2020, Dr Li Wenliang, known as one of the first whistleblowers on COVID, died from the disease in Wuhan.

A Classroom Called the Inland Sea: The 2025 AAEH Conference — ICEHO The First Biennial Conference of the Asian Association for Environmental History took place in Japan in the fall of 2025.

How is environmental history doing in Asia? It's thriving! Read Mu Cao's beautiful account of the Asian Association for Environmental History (AAEH) conference in Japan last year.

AAEH is a biennial conference, so keep an eye out for the next one in 2027!

#envhist #envhum #history

I have done so little For you. And you have do little For me. That we have good reason Never to agree. I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

It's now January 24th in Hong Kong, which means it's Chow Hang-tung's 41st birthday. First arrested on June 4th, 2021, for promoting an unauthorised assembly on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, she has spent her 37th, 38th, 39th, 40th and now 41st birthday behind bars.

Eight years ago today, bookseller Gui Minhai was arrested again and later sentenced to 10 years in prison by the Chinese Communist government. Since January 2018, his family has been unaware of his whereabouts and health status.

N.B. Gui is a Swedish citizen who was "disappeared" in Thailand.

‘This is the destruction of one civilization by another’ (Liu Tuo) - in the name of misguided ‘development’.
#resettlement
#SacredLandscapes
#heritage

Hong Kong billionaire Jimmy Lai tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom Lai, who is facing life in prison, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him

What an amazing, moving interview: ‘Jimmy Lai’s last interview as a free man in 2020’

This billionaire tested China's limits. It cost him his freedom www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oooh I have some fun material here. One of the things HKers did to support the paper financially was to buy up classified ads, which became a whole new genre of soft-protest. A small thread -

Just published: OA piece about #inclusion and #attainment in HE based on concrete practice at #SOAS by my fabulous colleagues @e-newbigin.bsky.social and Sarah Tucker:

One country, one system.

If Xi had any decency, which he doesn’t, he would let Lai live out his life in exile.

Prominent Buddhist Lama and educator detained; school forced to close A prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader and educator from Amdo has been detained and ‘disappeared’, and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediatel...

Prominent Tibetan Buddhist reincarnate lama and educator from Amdo detained and his vocational school abruptly closed, with families instructed to collect their children immediately. Report: tibetwatch.org/prominent-bu...

#AI

Jimmy Lai turned 78 today. He is still behind bars -- specifically, in solitary confinement at a maximum security prison in Hong Kong -- and his national security law trial has yet to conclude.

#Ming
#MingHistory
#LocustPlagues

Certainly within the university context it’s a clear sign than the system needs to change to become genuinely inclusive. It’s the lack of flexibility, the failure to allow divergence, that is pathologising.

#ZhangYadi

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”

Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

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A special issue that I edited on "Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men" (2025) by Patricia Owens has gone to production – I look forward to seeing the collection published @global-ih.bsky.social! It includes five review articles and a reply article by @whitproject.bsky.social

I keep saying this in dept meetings

One country, one system

GovHK had a grand opportunity here to be part of a united community and be an instrument of goodwill to nurture that unity, and they just had to go and blow it, didn't they?

But then paranoia will do that. It's like they're so afraid of their own ppl that they see sedition plots everywhere. 1/5

The arrests in Hong Kong right now are déjà vu for mainlanders like me who were active in civil society in the 2000s: citizens demanding investigations and accountability after public disasters are met not with answers, but arrests and intimidation. #mainlandization #香港加速内地化

This

‘What is to be done?’ Important piece about the British Library.

‘… the new interim chief executive … needs to build a top team and board who have a greater understanding of its academic users – knowledge that is currently held by specialist staff rather than the leadership.’