Jonathan Henshaw

Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.

Take care, Mike, and recover quickly!

I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series!

China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...

Very proud to be able to publish among so many esteemed authors in War & Society. My thanks, also, to @kristenauthor.bsky.social and everyone involved in the editorial and review process!

is translation undervalued in Anglophone academe? In China, translation is considered proper academic outputs, with both formal (e.g. for performance review & promotion) and informal recognition (reputation in wider society). it reflects (and constitutes)

Canada’s national archives need more than just a facelift Library and Archives Canada will soon have a shiny new home, but historians say what it really needs is better – and faster – access to the documents that make up this country’s history

Charlotte Gray on the underfunding of Library and Archives Canada and what lies ahead in its upcoming move. Sigh. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...

The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now China may have met an important milestone ahead of schedule. We'll see if it persists.

China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.

But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."

from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org

Absolutely grim. He got into a fight with shopkeepers at an electronics market, following a dispute over the agreed price to fix a mobile phone screen. He says he was forced to sign confessions he didn’t understand. Years of hell followed.

Same fraudulent strategy that brought on a disastrous Brexit.

Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter | Made in China Journal It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

YouTube video by Donut Why Are Trucks So Big?

Really good video by Donut.

2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for media. Proposed annexation of Canada using “economic coercion,” ie, an illegal, aggressive takeover without citizens’ consent, is framed as “a proposal” to “discuss” and then the inevitable outrage such framing provokes brings this:

Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry There’s a screenshot from TikTok that recently caused me and a group of my writer friends to lose our minds.

I wrote about the early years
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

Absolutely agree on all these. I mean explainers about what a trade imbalance represents and what Canada contributes and so on, it all comes across as pleading with a bully. But with the date kicked back to Feb there will probably be more Canadian pleading.

One of those issues where to have the debate is to lose it.

Can’t comprehend how horrific this case and the public trial must’ve been for Mdm Pelicot, but her courage casts light on the crucial question below.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

Marble memorial at Minto Park with the names of the 14 Dec 6 victims

I was 10 years old on December 6, 1989 and already a feminist. I have attended countless vigils and cried so many tears for the 14 women lost on that day, and the far-to-many thereafter. It’s 2024, and femicide is still a national epidemic.

Lawmakers have barricaded the doors of the National Assembly, where President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to arrive shortly. While Yoon is said to be about to resign, opposition have said they will not let him enter for fear he could use military escort to seize control of the chamber.

A reinforced concrete aircraft hangar in front of a flooded rice paddy after sunset. The sky is a deep blue and the curved entrance to the hangar is reflected in the water below. The scene is illuminated by the headlights of a scooter.

Ran out of daylight on the ride back to Luodong yesterday so I had to get a little creative shooting this reinforced concrete World War 2 era airplane hangar. The light source is the high beams on my rental scooter 🔦

An incredibly long time for Mark Swidan…

3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says - World News Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and are returning to the United States, the White House said Wednesday, announcing a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration.

3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says #China

They have some amazing stuff, but the tomb and stele (split in half?) in particular is pretty cringe-inducing.

Am I doing this right? I made a highly incomplete starter pack for feminist reporting and commentary, pretty loosely defined. go.bsky.app/6MA7Mxj

🚨 JOURNO JOB 🚨 The Guardian's China team is hiring a news assistant / researcher to be based in Taipei. Details below! English and Mandarin fluency essential. Applications close at the end of this month.

Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹

I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵

Japanese infantry wading through a creek in China.

Here are some book recommendations on the Second Sino-Japanese War/War of Resistance. This is easily the least understood theatre of the Second World War in English and significant gaps continue to exist in the historiography. Still, this thread is not exhaustive. The last post will have "END." 🧵

to counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add.
go.bsky.app/wtGV1Q

Here’s a list of Indigenous (to US/Canada) follows on BSky. I’ve added a dozen more people since the first version. Let me know if I missed anybody. go.bsky.app/22LJsC3