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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

💀jetlagged that day; allow me to clarify: #EveSedgwick ‘s #Buddhist pedagogy invites us to “recognise”:

1. the global, transnational nature of current crises esp among antagonistic regimes e.g. their technologies of authoritarianism, #islamophobia, racial capitalism, #Christian #nationalism…

Authors! If you’re having a book panel at #AARSBL25, we’d love to celebrate you. Plz feel free to get in touch with me if you & your co-panelists would like to transform the #book panel into a review roundtable in the #JAAR!

@aarweb.bsky.social

Worn #onthisday in 1963 by Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, who were riding in the car with President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, TX. The governor was shot in the back but recovered. #OTD @gettyimages.com @tslac.bsky.social

Artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was born #OnThisDay in 1892. He designed this blue silk velvet cloak, decorated with marabou feathers and metallic thread embroidery, for Ganna Walska in a production of Manon. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory

Two pages of a tall thin prescription ledger showing medicines issued by Crippen on 24 and 25 January 1894, whilst he was still working as a homeopath in the USA. Cora's torso was found to have been poisoned with the drug hyoscine and so before his trial a British doctor checked this ledger and its pair to ensure Crippen had not also been poisoning people with that chemical in the USA.

At Pentonville at 9 am #OnThisDay in 1910 John Ellis executed the murderer of Cora Crippen. That decade he also hanged poisoner Frederick Seddon and Sir Roger Casement, whilst he played an executioner in a drama on the life of Charlie Peace in 1927. #CM150 #OTD #onthisdayinhistory #medhist

Important thread

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...

#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy

#OTD in 1008, #Song #宋 Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 (r. 997–1022) performs the Feng Shan #封禪 sacrifice to Heaven & Earth on Mount Tai #泰山, one of five sacred mountains of #ImperialChina. Only six emperors personally performed these rites in #ChineseHistory, Zhenzong being the last.

Out now from NYRB Classics - Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays by Eileen Chang, translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang.

À ma gauche, une combattante du PFLOAG, communiste, féministe, émancipateur

À ma droite, le sultan Qabus et cette ordure de Thatcher

Aujourd’hui avec @alexjubelin.bsky.social on reçoit
@elietenenbaum.bsky.social pour évoquer la rébellion du Dhofar 1970s, et la contre-insurrection des SAS britanniques
Un moment passionnant de l’histoire, où un mouvement de gauche arabe défiait l’ordre et l’impérialisme.

youtu.be/V3-9tm92LBI?...

Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!

AAR conference by Princeton University Press, with authors listed alphabetically. Two books in the list give their author as “The Buddha”

Wondering if Princeton University Press pays royalties to their author “The Buddha,” writer of the books _How to Lose Yourself_ and _How to Feel_. #aarsbl25

Great turnout in honor of the man, myth, and legend, Peter Gregory (1945-2025).

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it

Right?

Black and white photograph of a white man in hat glasses and macintosh. Building in background

The lad himself coming in with a strong #menswear look

Photograph of old box of flashcards with Chinese characters.

John K. Fairbank’s flashcards. #sinology

#ODT #ChineseHistory, we celebrate an imperial double-birthday: Li Ang 李昂 (809–840, r. 827–840), temple name (Tang #唐) Emperor Wenzong 文宗; and Zhao Jiong 趙炅 (aka Kuangyi 匡義 or Guangyi 光義, 939–997, r. 976–997), temple name (Song #宋) Taizong 太宗.#MedievalHistory #China

Liu Zhiji's Shitong and its Revival in Ming Dynasty—Pacing Historiography Anew

Schinköthe, Ailika

PhD dissertation, University of Tübingen, 2018

tobias-lib.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle...

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Moon update

Ten Publishing Tips for Young Academics, Revised Edition. - #AARSBL25
www.bleaktheology.com/2014/09/21/t...

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a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee . ALT: a man in a trench coat and tie is drinking a cup of coffee .

Hot take: the Pacific Northwest isn't famous for coffee because of Starbucks. It's famous for coffee because of Twin Peaks.

#DOTD: Qin Hui 秦檜 (1090–1155), grand councillor of Southern Song 南宋 Emperor Gaozong 高宗 (r. 1127–1162) and eternal traitor. #YueFei #岳飛

Works by #French #medievalist Jacques Le Goff (1924-2014) in #Chinese translation, all published in recent years. #GlobalMiddleAges #medievalStudies #MedievalHistory #中古 #中世紀 #歐洲歷史

#DOTD: Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897–1931), one of the most influential poets of #ModernChinese. A student at King's College, Cambridge, his most famous poem is 'Once More Leaving Cambridge' #再別康橋. He tragically died in a plane crash in 1931.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Zhimo

A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong

By Liu Zhiji

Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong

PUBLISHED: March 2023

SERIES: Classics of Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780295751061
Publisher: University of Washington Press

uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

YouTube video by Cambridge University 'Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again' Xu Zhimo | University of Cambridge #WorldPoetryDay

19 November is the anniversary of the death of the poet Xu Zhimo 徐志摩 (1897-1931), author of one of the most famous of all modern Chinese poems, 'Saying Goodbye to Cambridge Again', read here:
www.youtube.com/shorts/ic8rL...