Tristan Brown

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A Battle with My Blood When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.

Oh this broke my heart today —

“I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.”

“A Battle with My Blood” by Tatiana Schlossberg

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷

Check out @nuvoices.bsky.social virtual writing workshop: Writing Across Borders with essayist and academic @yangyangcheng.bsky.social!

This workshop will examine the limitations of the dominant discourse on China, and discuss how to write against and beyond state-centric frameworks.

A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2023-24 CASBS fellow Micah Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People," has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📖

About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover.

Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.

My new article is out! A Daoist mountain synced pilgrimages with crane migrations—governing landscapes and conserving biodiversity for centuries. Rethinking nature/culture today. Read open access: doi.org/10.3390/rel1...

Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95 An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (南京大報恩寺琉璃塔), built in the Ming dynasty, once dazzled the world as a “wonder of the Middle Ages.”
Clad in glazed tiles that shimmered in sunlight and lantern light alike, it rose as both devotion and spectacle. Its fame even reached Andersen, 1/2
#art

The Cat’s *Maew*: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century) A manuscript that pairs illustrations of cats with poetic descriptions and notes on what mystical benefits their owners might hope to accrue.

"Tamra Maew manuscripts pair illustrations of these auspicious pets with poetic descriptions and notes on what mystical benefits the owner might hope to accrue, which may range from riches to good health."

1. An amusing interpretation of the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1341 from the pen of the Dominican Galvano Fiamma in distant Italy.

#mongolsky
#tengri

“De Tartaris, qui invaserunt Christianos
Ab Oriente Tartari, qui solo lacte et carnibus vescuntur,

'What a fascinating book, illustrated with some wonderful images, some of them quite unexpected!'

📌 buff.ly/8aDUwqf
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Another reason I love this route: it passes Taiwan’s largest Muslim cemetery. Hajji Shi Wen-Ting from Xinjiang rests here, among Hui, Uyghur, and other refugees — reminders that Taiwan itself became a land of refugees after 1949.

Qeshqer Héytgah Katta Baziri(喀什艾提尕尔大巴扎:Rendering of the redevelopment project)
Aug. 13, 2003， Kashgar

#LVLUM-0060

Scientists Taught Pet Parrots to Video Call Each Other—and the Birds Loved It Wild parrots tend to fly in flocks, but when kept as single pets, they may become lonely and bored

we must tear down Online and replace it with the Internet of Parrots.

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

"Fool me once,..."

Assistant Professor -Modern Southeast Asian Humanities - Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

TT Assistant Professor Position in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities at UC-Berkeley!

Further details below --

"A governing party’s will to power is destructive of both its own ideals and of the society that birthed it." Anne Stevenson-Yang reviews Robert Suettinger’s "The Conscience of the Party" and Joseph Torigian’s "The Party’s Interests Come First." lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-will-to-power-in-china

In the Late Ming, Literature Is Survival | Los Angeles Review of Books Mahika Dhar reviews two classics of Chinese literature: Kong Shangren’s “The Peach Blossom Fan” and Zhang Yingyu’s “More Swindles from the Late Ming.”

Engaging & appreciative review at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social of two works of literature from the Ming era lareviewofbooks.org/article/in-t... cc @chowleen.bsky.social @bairuiwen.bsky.social @spoem.bsky.social

"Echoes of Great Brightness" conference will be live-streamed, on 16 and 17 September, and you can watch a great roster of speakers on art of the Ming and art of the non-Ming, online: the link is here: web.cvent.com/event/a4ff13...

The Technopolitics of China’s Yarlung Tsangpo Dam Project and the Paradox of Hydropower | Made in China Journal Three years after announcing their intent to construct a mega-dam along the Yarlung Tsangpo (Brahmaputra) River as part of the Fourteenth Five-Year Plan, Chinese officials gave their approval to proce...

From Sanmenxia and Three Gorges to the Yarlung Tsangpo Dam, China has long relied on monumental hydropower to prove state capacity. @zenel25.bsky.social and @pguer.bsky.social show how such projects, while promising development and security, often deepen the very insecurities they claim to resolve.

Most of Chinese Camp has burned to the ground, according to Chronicle photojournalist @stephenlamphoto.bsky.social. Some residents of the historic Gold Rush town stayed to fight the blaze, despite evacuation orders.
#CAwx #CAfire
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There will be many casualties from UChicago ending ('pausing') PhD admissions in Humantities, but one which I am keenly aware of: this is close to a death sentence for teaching cuneiform in the United States (esp. Sumerian, Hittite, Elamite, Eblaite, Luwian) and it will affect the whole world.

The latest T’oung Pao issue is out:
brill.com/view/journal...

@dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Happy to answer questions about the China studies community at MIT!

TT job announcement: The Anthropology Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites applications for a tenure track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in the anthropology of China. Link below.

YouTube video by East Asian Institute - NUS EAI Seminar by Prof Bert Hofman - Internationalisation of the Renminbi: Status and Prospects

I gave a talk last month on the internationalization of the Renminbi. The YouTube video is now up: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFgL...

Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue Revealing dynamic dialogues between early modern China and Latin America through a new methodology Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue unveils how these two vast emp...

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Book Review Forum — Juliet Nebolon’s “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire” - Antipode Online Desiree Valadares (UBC), Kawena Elkington (UH Mānoa), Haylee Makana Kushi (UH Hilo), Kelema Lee Moses (UC San Diego), and Laurel Mei-Singh (UT Austin) on Juliet Nebolon’s Settler Militarism: World War...

Book Review Forum — "Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire" by @julietneb.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/2025/07/11/s...