Valentina Boretti

“Super Surfer”: The Joyriding Device and Childish Menace - Digital Childhoods At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to deal with the “craze.” While it began as a form of leisure for surfers whe...

Did you know skateboards go back to the early 60s? In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, James Howard discusses the 'super surfer' that made parents and journalists clutch their pearls in horror: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/super-su...

The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps The “High Tang” is the period long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This book is the first translation into any language of the only extant anthology compiled contemporaneously that was solely devoted to poetry composed during that period. It contains 230 poems by 24 different poets and was completed around 753, providing a rare contemporary view of what one well-informed reader considered the best verse of the age. The selections are of poems in various lengths, forms, and styles. The poets represented include most of those recognized since then as the greatest writers of the time, as well as those who seem largely forgotten now but who were in their own day held in equally high regard.

A new volume of the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities!

The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps

A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).

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A.E. Hawthorne Barrento on "The discourse of travel, society and nation in Republican China",
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
doi.org/10.1017/S135...

Do you know a group or individual that has advocated for the value of history, the work of historians and/or the importance of an education in history in the last year? The Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy is now open for applications.

www.historycouncilvic.org.au/jane_hansen_...

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Cover of book Statelessness After Arendt edited by Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter

It's arrived! 'Statelessness After Arendt: European Refugees in Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War' has been marshalled into print at @manchesterup.bsky.social by Kolleen Guy and Jay Winter

A Tribute to a Talented Time Traveler: Remembering Lynn Pan by Jeffrey Wasserstrom — The Shanghai Literary Review 上海文藝評論 Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s tribute to Lynn Pan, acclaimed author and chronicler of Shanghai, reflecting on her intellectual curiosity, literary legacy, and enduring influence on global Chinese diaspora stu...

I'm so glad that the good people at The Shanghai Literary Review gave me a chance to write a tribute to my late friend Lynn Pan, it just went up online here www.shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-... (with nods to M on the Bund, Michelle Garnaut, Pallavi Aiyar, Elizabeth Perry & @amitav.bsky.social )

An old man and an old woman playing at neck tug-of-war taken by Kuniyoshi Utagawa, c. 1850
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Flyer for event at SOAS: Introduction to Mongolian Studies Day at SOAS. Seminars - Book Launch - Musical Performances. Thursday 8 May 2025. Seminar: Studying Traditional Mongolia in a Modern World 12:00-14:30 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Introduced by Dr Lars Laamann, Senior Lecturer in the History of China and Central Asia, and Guest Professor, Manchu Studies, Jilin University - Dr Uradyn E Bulag (Cambridge): Mongolia in Parallax: Insights from Inner Mongolian nd Western Vantage Points - Dr Shane McCausland (SOAS): Arts of the Mongol World - Dr Terigele Teneg (Cambridge): Unicode and the Reintroduction of Traditional Script in Mongolia - Dr George Lnde (SOAS): Revising Perceptions of the Mongols in World History Book Launch & Musical Performance "Conquering the North - Chin, Russia, Mongolia: 2000 Years of Conflict, by John Man Musical Performance by Nomadic Tunes 16:00-18:00 BGLT Welcome and Remarks by Dr Lars Laamann H.E. Enkhsukh Battumur, Ambassador of Mongolia Garid Bandii, First Secretary of Education and Cultural Affairs Unurmaa Janchiv, Cultural Envoy of Mongolia

A day with Mongolian Studies events upcoming at #SOAS, this Thursday, 8 May 2025. See ALT text for more detail.

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Birkbeck study day on popular culure in Republican China - 7 May 2025

Looking forward to this!

In response to today's supreme court ruling, we want to urge any researcher in Trans Histories to consider a proposal to our new Queer & Trans Histories series - because research into Trans histories will help to shape Trans futures: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer...

#TransRights

Women's Fist-ism - China Media Project "Women's Fist-ism" (女拳) is a derogatory Chinese internet term that weaponizes wordplay—replacing "rights" (权) with "fist" (拳) in "feminism"—to portray women's rights advocates as aggressive man-haters...

Read our latest in the CMP Dictionary: "Women's Fist-ism" (女拳) — Chinese state media try to delegitimize feminist advocates, painting them as aggressive man-haters by replacing the "rights" (权) in "feminism" with "fist" (拳).

La revue en ligne de l'axe Littératures d'Asie et traduction de l'IrAsia (UMR) 7306) Impressions d'Extrême-Orient (IDEO) lance un appel à contributions pour son numéro 19 sur le thème : Les monstres dans les littératures d’Asie d’hier et d’aujourd’hui - appel à lire @ leo2t.hypotheses.org/6842

📢 Deadline Extended!
The CFP "Political Objects on the Move. For a Material History of the Long 19th Century" has been extended until March 28!

We welcome proposals about all geographic areas: send yours in and help us spread the word! 🌍✍️
#CFP #History #MaterialCulture
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#CFP: The fabrics of childhood: interaction, imagination and learning
Special issue of "Strenae – Recherches sur les livres et objets culturels de l’enfance"
Abstract deadline: 15 April 2025
Articles submission deadline: 15 October 2025
strenae@afreloce.fr
journals.openedition.org/strenae/11551

CFP: Children, Youth, and the Making of International Society.
Deadline 23 April 2025
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PGR Seminars & Workshops - History of Education Society We are very excited to share with you the programme for this term’s HES Postgraduate Research Series. The series will take place once a month on a Wednesday between 5-6pm. The Teams links for the…

Not long until our PGR Seminar!

Shu Wan - ‘Transmission and Translation: The Deaf-mute Primer (《启哑初阶》) and the Introduction of Deaf Education into Late Qing China'

Wednesday 12 March 5-6pm GMT

Link: historyofeducation.org.uk/pgr-seminars/
OR
Sign-Up: forms.office.com/e/QEDYKFAgfj

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#Callforpapers "China Perspectives" - deadline for abstracts: 30/05/2025

"Rethinking the People’s Republic of China (1949 to the Present Time) through human-animal relations."
Guest editor: Joachim Boittout

#animal #China

#ExpoPòotēhì En collaboration avec le Centre d'art de la marionnette de Taipei, l'Inalco propose en mars une programmation dédiée à l'art du Pòotē-hì taïwanais (théâtre de marionnettes à gaine) et son langage symbolique. 🎭🇹🇼

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University - Reading Time: 4 minutesBy an anonymous academic. Cover image by Adwitiya Pal On the second day of classes…

Two Weeks In The Death Spiral Of Cardiff University, by an anonymous academic.
This is truly shocking read.
The Cardiff executive board should hang their heads in shame.
voice.cymru/two-weeks-in...

'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World: Elitism and Equality since 1945 Abstract. The idea that a child is intellectually ‘gifted’ has a social and cultural history. This book analyses that social history at multiple scales, an

Out now: Jennifer Crane _'Gifted Children' in Britain and the World_, OUP
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Hands-on technoscientific training, 1955

Call for proposals: Humanities Futures book series - University of London Press We are delighted to announce the details of our exciting new book series, Humanities Futures, and to invite book proposal submissions.  Humanities Futures is a new book series that advocates powerfull...

If you have an idea for this exciting new series, we'd love to hear from you!

All the details on how to submit a proposal are on our website.

uolpress.co.uk/2025/02/call...

#HumanitiesFutures #OpenAccess @sas-news.bsky.social @uolondon.bsky.social #AcademicSky #BookSky

Noise, Nostalgia, and the Sound of Beijing’s Peddlers What happens in the process of preserving the 'sounds of old Beijing'? Odila Schröder explores the heritagisation of Beijing's peddler calls.

What happens when we try to preserve the peddlers' calls which made up the soundscape of Peking?

As Odila Schröder writes 'As is the case with most local art forms, the process of heritagisation has fundamentally changed the art form itself'.

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Front page of new Transactions article by Ghassan Moazzin, entitled: 'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', and a map of telephone networks from 1936 from the article.

How was state-building assisted by the creation long-distance telephony in mid-C20th China?

'Incomplete Infrastructure: State-Building and the Early History of China’s Long-Distance Telephone Network, 1900–1937', by Ghassan Moazzin: bit.ly/3WJLC2c Now available, Open Access in 'Transactions' 1/2

‼️ #skystorians 🙏 review for History: Review of New Books 📚 https://buff.ly/3CfWDBg @routledgehistory.bsky.social
📧 Publishers, feel free to send catalogs, links, or e-books for review consideration to historyreviews@taylorandfrancis.com.

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

Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan In Literature for Little Bodhisattvas, Natasha Heller makes two key interventions: first, she argues that picturebooks are a new genre of Buddhist writing, and second, she calls attention to an eme…

New book - Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making Buddhist Families in Modern Taiwan
Natasha Heller reveals "how contemporary picturebooks reframe Buddhism and offer fresh perspectives on its teachings and ideals of family for both children and adults"
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/litera...
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