A timely talk by Professor Klaus Muehlhahn in ShanghaiTech University on 8 September: Beyond the Black Hole: How Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 上海的小伙伴请考虑参加:-)
02.09.2025 07:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A timely talk by Professor Klaus Muehlhahn in ShanghaiTech University on 8 September: Beyond the Black Hole: How Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 上海的小伙伴请考虑参加:-)
02.09.2025 07:52 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I am humbled to share my newly published essay (金庸与剑桥大学的书缘和情缘) about Dr. Louis Cha, Honorary Fellow of both Robinson and St John’s Colleges. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues Judith (Robinson), Miki, Beth, and Elmo at @AMES_Library for their kind support.
25.08.2025 11:43 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Super happy to share the news on behalf of the team for the Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge University Library: our Hopkins Oracle Bones (2D set CUL1–610) and 50 3D images are now freely accessible to the world. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
17.08.2025 04:15 — 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0You are welcome
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Cambridge PhD students: please consider this great opportunity to use the Chinese collections at UCSD library for your PhD studies, under the WongAvery Visiting Scholar Exchange Programme. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. For details, please see: library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...
28.07.2025 10:32 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
pleased to report both of my monographs are now on sales––
Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reading amazing scholarship like this makes you wonder to what extent the 1911/12 divide is still applicable to modern Chinese history!
29.05.2025 10:12 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋
We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.
We can’t wait to connect with you all!
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Back to reading and finished this new translation of the history of the Republic of China (originally in French). Very strong synthesis of the economic, political, social, and cultural in the last four chapters. Less focused on the revolutionary narrative.
28.05.2025 04:51 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube Livestream: www.youtube.com/@centreformo...
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Conference on “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” on May 19 & May 21 in Göttingen, co-organized by Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) and Wang Hui (Tsinghua), which will be featured with a range of renowned artists, writers, and scholars. Programs below.
07.05.2025 12:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!
📅Deadline 9th May
📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk
For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...
Looking forward to my talk on the history of emotions at City University of Hong Kong on 9 April! So exciting to visit Hong Kong after so many years…
30.03.2025 11:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ta-Nehisi in town. What a treat!
29.03.2025 20:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello!
28.03.2025 21:19 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Permanent academic positions in Asian studies/history soon to open for applications in France in this job cycle, a 🧵
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1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4)
sciences.re/postes/media...
Index database on periodicals from Late Qing and Republican eras.
Our database on periodicals from the late Qing and Republican era has surpassed 10,000 views! Even recently, I’ve continued to receive positive feedback on how useful and convenient it is. This is truly encouraging, and I will be adding more titles soon. See: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
15.02.2025 14:35 — 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Book received, and intrigued by the topic. Looking forward to reading it! @mihatsch.bsky.social
23.01.2025 13:50 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0I would translate it as “that Three Ages established by Tang ang Yu.” Sort of creation story here…
20.01.2025 07:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's a great honour to be on board!
16.01.2025 20:40 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Welcome to Bluesky👋
11.12.2024 15:04 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Over 200 East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals (1850-1950) on Internet Archive. A total of over 378,000 issues. All of these can be downloaded as PDFs. archive.org/details/east...
09.12.2024 12:27 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1The legendary “Moss on Stone” is back! 👏👏👏
09.12.2024 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Street scene. Found on a rainy day in Cambridge while walking…
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Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)
04.12.2024 21:00 — 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1
#CarloGinzburg will speak about Italian historicism, #microhistory and global history at the University of Milan on Wednesday 4 December 2024
02.12.2024 17:24 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great exhibition about a significant moment in history! — Whipple Museum in Cambridge.
30.11.2024 09:23 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0