Valentina Boretti

🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Jørgen Delman examines how Xu Zhiyong's political activism prompted the party-state to suppress him with specifically designed governance tools.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PEN International #China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...

#FreeGuiMinhai

#materialculture

What do video games teach us about women’s history? | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.

NEW at #VIDAblog!

@ahartman.bsky.social explores the impressions that playing video games gives us about significant women historical figures, asking: What impact does this have on informal public education about women's history? 🎮

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/video-g...

1/ A reflection: something that disadvantages non-STEM scholars in unis, especially those in the arts and hums, is that we are judged by STEM frameworks:

1) We don't publish as often.
2) We tend to publish alone or in pairs.
3) Our work doesn't usually require large funds, if any.

An early advert for Chinese classes at SOAS, c. 1920 #EYAEducation ow.ly/QPaV50WNtZZ

Looking forward to this!

#CFP: The Citizen-Child: Global Perspectives on Children’s Literature and the Making of Modernity
The Sixth International Children’s Literature Symposium (ICLS)
25-26 June, 2026
Hosted by the University of Antwerp
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Email: Courtney Weikle-Mills, caw57@pitt.edu

Philip Kuhn (especially Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768).

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Konf: Military Youth Education at the Beginning of the 20th century

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157141

Mainz, 01.10.2025-02.10.2025, Felix Maskow / Markus Raasch / Julia Tilentzidis, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory

#histchild

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, 2025, edited by Mary Zaborskis. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003431923/routledge-companion-gender-childhood-mary-zaborskis

Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China

Delighted to have received a copy of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, to which I contributed a chapter.
Thanks to Mary Zaborskis for editing this volume!

“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).

#openaccess
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_...

#phavictas

#histchild

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
#EYAFunandGames ow.ly/zGiZ50VPWr0

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.

#MongolianStudies
#Mongolia

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
@revolutions19e.bsky.social

#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