Tristan Brown

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...

'Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond' In Oxford, 16-17 September. Booking now open. I'm honoured (my goodness, I really am, so grateful to this amazing roster of colleagues)
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We encourage candidates who write fiction of any or many sorts, including literary fiction, speculative fiction, romance, fantasy, science fiction or other genre fiction. Novelists and short story writers whose writing practice also includes less traditional work in writing for comics, the screen, and digital and non-digital games are welcomed as well. We are especially interested in candidates whose work engages with topics including race/ethnicity, diaspora, global south, gender, feminism, sexuality, disability, and class, as well as the intersections among them.

Writers! "MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Creative Writing starting July 1, 2026, or as soon thereafter as possible."
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Across China, temples are quietly transforming into destinations for lifestyle consumption. Brand crossovers, cafés, vegetarian cuisine, and even venture capital activities now form what some call the “temple economy.”

Read more: ow.ly/Gvlb50WhoUT

The End and the beginning After every war someone has to tidy up. Things won't pick themselves up, after all. Someone has to shove the rubble to the roadsides so the carts loaded with corpses can get by. Someone has to trudge through sludge and ashes, through the sofa springs, the shards of glass, the bloody rags. Someone has to lug the post to prop the wall, someone has to glaze the window, set the door in its frame. No sound bites, no photo opportunities, and it takes years. All the cameras have gone to other wars. The bridges need to be rebuilt, the railroad stations, too. Shirtsleeves will be rolled to shreds. 286 Someone, broom in hand, still remembers how it was. Someone else listens, nodding his unshattered head. But others are bound to be bustling nearby who'll find all that a little boring. From time to time someone still must dig up a rusted argument from underneath a bush and haul it off to the dump. Those who knew what this was all about must make way for those who know little. And less than that. And at last nothing less than nothing. Someone has to lie there in the grass that covers up the causes and effects with a cornstalk in his teeth, gawking at clouds.

After every war
someone has to tidy up.
Things won’t pick
themselves up, after all.

Someone has to shove
the rubble to the roadsides
so the carts loaded with corpses
can get by.

-Wisława Szymborska, “The End and the Beginning” (t. Cavanagh & Barańczak)
#everynightapoem #war

Opinion | China Revoked My Visa and Came to Regret It

Good op ed on PRC students/US visas by @jimmillward.bsky.social (brings in his experiences being banned from PRC in an interesting way) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/o... "From a hard-nosed U.S. security standpoint, we should be learning all that we can about China. That means maintaining connections"

Hybrid Event - Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers 26-27 June 2025 - Hybrid - Climates of Empire will start a fresh conversation between environmental historians and climate change researchers.

Climates of Empire: Environmental Historians in Conversation with Climate Change Researchers

Centre for World Environmental History
26-27 June 2025 – A 108, Arts A, University of Sussex & Zoom

niche-canada.org/2025/06/21/h...

#envhist #climhist #climatechange

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

Enjoyed reading Tristan Brown‘s book. Pairs well with Rogaski’s new book on Knowing Manchuria, which I enjoyed reading too. 1/ @tristangbrown.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

a week from now, an online talk on *early landscapes, local writings and medieval communities along the Yangzi* "at" Ca' Foscari. We'll explore how medieval literati represented Southern spaces and the people therein - all welcome!

Between 1910-1940, some 175,000 mostly Chinese arrivals were detained on Angel Island. In 1970, when the detention center’s buildings were due to be torn down, a park ranger noticed that the walls were inscribed with layers upon layers of poetry. Some 200 poems survive.
#everynightapoem

Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025 This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!

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The Race to Type in Chinese | China Books Review The Chinese typewriter was thought to be an impossible invention. Then they made one. In the computer age, creating a digital input system for Chinese characters proved even more challenging — and cha...

If Stanford acquiring a very special Chinese typewriter has you wanting to know more about the topic, this @jmchatwin.bsky.social essay at @chinabksreview.bsky.social is a good place to turn, discusses both @mitpress.bsky.social @tsmullaney.bsky.social books chinabooksreview.com/2025/04/17/c...

John Doe Chinaman — Harvard University Press A revelatory history of the laws that conditioned the everyday lives of Chinese people in the American West—and of those who negotiated, circumvented, and resisted discrimination.Legal discrimination ...

My next book. Out in September!
@harvardpress.bsky.social
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

A hamster / mister saddlebags with EXTREMELY chubby cheeks

The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

In our third episode on beliefs and ideologies, we explore China’s newfound enthusiasm for psychiatry. Counselling was only registered as a profession in 2001 yet has seen a massive boom under Xi Jinping. The psy-boom is such that even party branch meetings are doing mindfulness exercises, … (1/3)

Book cover of Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke.

Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalisms
by Finbarr Barry Flood and Beate Fricke is the Winner of the International Center of Medieval Art Book Prize!

Learn more about this beautifully illustrated book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Fantastic article by Abe Yasurō in JJRS. Abe examines Kamakura’s formation through its ritual border zones, particularly around the central shrine-temple complex of Tsurugaoka Hachimangū. This site served as both a religious and performative hub, hosting major ceremonies like the Hōjōe.

The book I have been working on with Joost de Bloois and Stijn De Cauwer finally has a cover. We give an overview of contemporary Italian philosophy on topics like online fascism, posthumanism, Big Tech, migration, and much more.

Anyone want to invite me to be on a panel for #AAS2026? I can happily contribute to a panel on women’s history, gender studies, activism, democracy, Hong Kong studies, labor movements, women in politics, gender and law, or anything even tangentially related! Let me know!

Really recommend this new small exhibition in Kew's Library Reading Room exploring shifts in the practices of 18 and 19C botany and how indigenous knowledge was used and acknowledged #BotanicalRevolutions #Archives #Kew

Read my blog post about what 'time inheritance' is and why it matters!

How to see today's partial solar eclipse from the UK The partial eclipse - when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, and partly obscures the star - is expected to be visible from parts of the UK.

There will be a partial solar eclipse today - but please be careful, do NOT look directly at the sun even when partly obscured- project it onto a piece of card - news.sky.com/story/how-to...

I can vouch for the fact that this is a good book

Thank you Cora!

China100 @ UH Mānoa The University of Hawai'i and Global Chinese Studies Exhibit 夏威夷大學與國際中國研究回顧展

Wow, I knew my uni had a long history of Chinese studies, but there are some fascinating details here, and a really significant cast of characters from throughout 20th-century China: Hu Shi, Cai Yuanpei, Wing-tsit Chan, Feng You-lan, Joseph Rock, Mei Lanfang, John DeFrancis, usw.

Thank you, Coraline!

Thank you, Edward!

Thank you so much for your kind words, James!

Thank you Kelly!!!