Aoife Cantrill

The last surviving generation born during Japan’s colonisation of Taiwan Japan’s 50-year rule that ended after World War II left behind not just an architectural legacy, but also complex emotions surrounding identity.

The last surviving generation born during Japan’s colonisation of Taiwan - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/japan-colonisation-taiwan-war-last-surviving-generation-5329901

YouTube video by Modern Japan History Association Research Exchange Seminar #4: 帝国大学の朝鮮人 (Koreans in the Imperial University)

A video of the recent MJHA "Research Exchange Seminar" discussion of the book 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel!

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A carved wooden abstracted sculpture depicting a family.

📣 Don't miss Cheung Yee and His 1960s Hong Kong Contemporaries, closing 7 September.

This free exhibition showcases newly-acquired works by the Hong Kong artist Cheung Yee (1936–2019). It is the first substantial display of his work outside Hong Kong, including sculpture and works on paper.

All of this for all of you Az Crawford contemplates the historical narratives and aesthetic politics behind the new V&A East Storehouse.

Open shelves, glass floors and ceilings, transparent boxes, shrouded displays, a concrete facade. The V&A East Storehouse opened in May with the goal of giving the public 'direct access' to the museum and its objects.

Az Crawford contemplates this 'transparency':

"If we greedily demand more, and tastier, food, the supply for the 'industrial warriors' who must work to their utmost will be reduced by that much, and transport capacity will also be required for it.

Let us think of it this way: we are eating precious airplanes at each of our three daily meals."

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?

We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.

Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!

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The “Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon”: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia The “Ueno Chizuko phenomenon” describes the popularity and influence of Japanese feminist scholar Ueno Chizuko in East Asia, particularly in China and South Korea, through translations of her work....

With Ting Guo, I’ve co‑authored a new article titled “The ‘Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon’: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia” in the “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue uof Chinese Literature and Thought Today (Vol. 56, Nos. 1–2). See www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

The Cinema of Qiu Miao-jin | Barbican A memorial screening honouring Qiu Miao-jin, a trailblazer in Taiwanese queer literature and author of Notes of a Crocodile, marking 30 years since her untimely death.

Screening celebrating Qiu Miao-jin at the Barbican on August 16th www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:

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Deadline is 21 July.

And we're looking for Translated Literature from Asia and Oceania:

Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

We are having another exciting book talk on colonial Korea coming up!! Mark your calendar! mjha.org/event-6183687

It's been such a privilege to serve on the jury for the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabksreview.bsky.social, and to engage in a conversation with Lin King, who won the Award for Translated Literature with author Yang Shuangzi for Taiwan Travelogue, at the prize ceremony.

Honoured to be one of the judges for this year's Weidenfeld Prize, and to recognise Jeffrey Zuckerman's beautiful translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears – a novel about a young woman weighing up whether to get a cochlear implant: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jell... 🪼🩵

A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis* Abstract. Diagnosing a patient on the basis of their pulse alone is an impressive demonstration of medical ability for which early modern Chinese doctors w

On advance access: "A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis"

by Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

#OpenAccess

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A photo of a wooden bookshelf full volumes from China. Two books by Wang XX are visible, as well as Mr Men by Anusman and books by Yan Cong and Zuo Ma.

SEEKING SUMMER ARCHIVAL INTERN
We are looking for an assistant to archive and document the Paradise Systems Chinese comics library. Must be comfortable reading Chinese comics (simplified and traditional) and writing about them in English. A background in translation is a plus.

All the 8 shortlisted titles spread out on a table

Slowly getting ready to announce the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize @oxfordcct.bsky.social. Minna Jeffrey, Thom Murphy, @acantrill.bsky.social, and I had our work cut out for us!

This looks great - "New Theories on Translation: Proximity and Distance between Japanese and Chinese Characters and Words"

Must-read. "For Zheng, and for me, the function of poetry, its innate raison d’être, is to mourn. And in mourning, to point a finger. Look! the poet cries, Look! Look at everything that’s been lost, that we are in the process of losing, that we are throwing away out of ignorance and fear..."

Just 1 WEEK until we announce the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College

Oxford Translation Day 2025

Oxford Translation Day celebrates literary translation with a vibrant range of workshops, readings, and talks, culminating in the award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. This year, Oxford Translation Day takes place on 14 June. View the programme here:

Conference poster, featuring a young boy shouting against a red background while wearing a t-shirt that reads 'positive vibes' (photo credits: Xia Yang @imrxia on Unsplash)

DAY 1 - TUESDAY 17 June SALLE ATHÉNA, MAISON DE LA RECHERCHE, 4 RUE DES IRLANDAIS, 75005 PARIS REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE 9:00 CONFERENCE OPENING & WELCOME ADDRESS 9:30-9:45 Anne Isabelle FRANCOIS (GIS Institut du Genre & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) Coraline JORTAY (CNRS - THALIM) OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 09:45-11:00 HOWARD CHIANG (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA) Trans Without Borders: Voices from the Decolonial Past PANEL 1: AFFECTIVE OUTLETS: VOICE AND EMOTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA 11:00-13:00 Discussant: Rachel HARRIS (SOAS) ZENG Jinyan (Lund University) Affective Podcasting: Forging Feminist Community for Sinophone-Tibetans HUANG Fei (University of St Andrews) Support-Seeking Attitudes and Emotional Sharing Practices Among Stay-at-Home Fathers in Urban China Arianne M. GAETANO (Auburn University) Gendered Subjectivity and Embodied Resistance of Single Women in Urban China LUNCH 13:00-14:00 PANEL 2: STAGING TRANSGRESSIVE VOICES 14:00-16:00 Discussant: Howard CHIANG (University of California, Santa Barbara) ZHU Ke & Ll Jinghui (University of Amsterdam) Lip syncing and the Trans-Asian Art of Dragging in China LI Yizhuo (City University of Hong Kong) "Voicing the Villainess: Gender Transgression in Qing Drama" Ll Leshan (Heidelberg University) lasculinized Appearances, Feminized Voices: Revolutionary Women hinese New Opera, 1949-196 COFFEE BREAK 16:00-16:30 PANEL 3: MARGINALIZED VOICES FROM THE INNER QUARTERS 16:30-18:30 Discussant: Jennifer BOND (University College London) XU Ning (University of Hong Kong joundscape in Women's Sphere: Cross-Class Cultural Community of Tanci ir the Ming and Qing Dynasties XIA Shi (New College of Florida) ‹cluding Concubines: The Contested Politics of Progressive Women's Groups -publican China (1912-194 Anne KERLAN (CNRS - EHESS - Université de Paris) The Silences of Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935), Movie Star and Woman CONFERENCE DINNER 19:00 DAY 2 - WEDNESDAY 18 June SALLE ATHÉNA, MAISON DE LA RECHERCHE, 4 RUE DES IRLANDAIS, …

ZHENG Qijun (École Pratique des Hautes Études) Echoes of Emancipation: A Century of Women's Voices, Gender Dynamics and Religious Authority at Maoshan in China (1912-2012) COFFEE BREAK 11:00-11:30 PANEL 5: SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: WOMEN IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND THE ARTS 11:30-13:30 Discussant: Chang LIU (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen) CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 16:30-17:45 RACHEL HARRIS (SOAS) "No Longer Baby-Making Machines"? Hearing Uyghur Women's Voices Under the Anti-Extremism Campaigns CLOSING COMMENTS 17:45-18:00 Chiara CIGARINI (Ca' Foscari University and Wellesley College) Non-Linear Hydric Futures: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Chinese Narratives, Water Policy and Affect Martina MERENDA (University of Bologna) Calligraphy means Feminine: A Focus on a Female Calligraphic Approach within Performance art in Contemporary China Clover Yue GU (Shanghai University) How Was Disability Presented? Emotions, Marriage, and Circumstances of the Stone Maiden in Late Imperial and Republican China LUNCH 13:30-14:30 PANEL 6: VOICES FROM BELOW 14:30-16:30 Discussant: Beatrice ZANI (CNRS - LISE) Isabelle ATTANÉ (INED) Future? Women: Forced Actors in Securing China's Demographic and Economic Marijn FENNEMA (York University) 20th-Century Yantai Voicing Allure: Shifting Social Profiles and Work Methods of Sex Workers in Early Isabella JACKSON (Trinity College Dublin) "I am a Slave-Girl, not an Adopted Daughter." Enslaved Girls Speaking - and Being Heard - in Early Twentieth-Century China LIU Xi (Xi' an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) Social Inequalities in Urbanization and Its Discontent: Representing Subaltern Women in Post-2020 Chinese Writings

In Paris on 17-18 June & interested in gender & China?

Join us for the 4th edition of the China Academic Network on Gender conference. We'll delve into all things voice with a fabulous lineup of speakers, positive vibes (&morning croissants! 🥐)

Free to attend w. registration change.hypotheses.org

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China’s economy is unsteady, its publishing industry facing hard times — yet interesting books continue to come out. Here are five of them, from psychotherapy to mountaineering.

Our "What China's Reading" columnist Na Zhong shares her picks for uncertain times: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/20/w...

Home air raid shelters manufactured by a construction firm in Tokyo, one of many businesses capitalizing on the air defense market place

These cylindrical shelters had wooden interiors and came in both seated and tatami-style configurations, capable of accommodating approximately ten people

Announcing the 2024 Winners | China Books Review Presenting the winners (and honorable mentions) for the 2024 Baifang Schell Book Prize, with awards in both nonfiction and translated literature.

We have the inaugural winners of the Baifang Schell Books Prize!

Nonfiction: AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE by Edward Wong

Literature: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King

chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...

Do you know this place used to be a camp? How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight? Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how best to locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.

How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight?

Fifty years since the first arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong, Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.

'If you read the text in the ad, you're not reading his prose: you're reading mine, translating his recorded words from French,' O’Hara said. 'I've done my best to render his meaning, but that's all I've managed to do.'

Typotheque: Understanding CJK regional character variants article on Typotheque by Eric Q. Liu Chinese characters, or Han characters, vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although Unicode unifies them into a single Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) block, fonts ...

Chinese characters vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although it is possible to have a single CJK font, letterforms need to align with regional preferences. This article aims to explain the regional variants. www.typotheque.com/articles/und...