Now reversed, but only after eight months of disruption, cancellation of some work, and threats of legal action. Appalling.
My former colleague @arthurkaufman.bsky.social interviewed @lauratmurphy.bsky.social about her work in 2022:
03.11.2025 05:23 — 👍 26 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.
03.11.2025 06:44 — 👍 52 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 6
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!
Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.
Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!
#MundaneHalloween
02.11.2025 09:15 — 👍 4383 🔁 2599 💬 27 📌 267
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
01.11.2025 12:21 — 👍 37 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
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.
31.10.2025 23:15 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
YouTube video by TFAI 國家電影及視聽文化中心
現存最早關於台灣的電影《福爾摩沙》Formosa｜1920s 珍貴影像｜The Earliest Documentary About Taiwan｜35mm｜Colonial Period Image
#TaiwanArchives: This film is the earliest known surviving motion picture shot in and about #Taiwan.
Dating between 1917 and 1922, it documents the landscapes, architecture, customs, scenery, Indigenous peoples, and colonial traces of #Formosa during the era of Japanese rule.
youtu.be/PjA78Oneqj0
01.11.2025 06:16 — 👍 34 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
A woman works in a warehouse (?).
A little girl looks into the camera, foliage in the background.
Ceramic urns are drying in the sun.
Two toddlers sitting by a wall.
Contact prints from photos by Frederick J. Foley 傅良圃. These photos were taken in Taiwan; we're guessing in the 1960s. The Ricci Institute has around 85,000 of Foley's photographic negatives that await digitization. They were given to us in 1985.
31.10.2025 20:21 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A pumpkin with 靈 carved on it
Got a proper candle for it!
#halloween
#萬聖節
31.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by OFFICE OF STRATEGIC SERVICES [OSS]
Tear You Apart /Bela Lugosi's Dead_DJ ALANT Mix_Re-Upload[96/69Hz(4Hz TDR69) HOSPITALCORE Remix 169]
Posting this for #Halloween but it's good any day of the year www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBe...
31.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vintage postcard: pumpkin-headed man in a suit pulls a rope toward a small stone oven with a jack-o’-lantern face and smoking chimney; crescent moon above; “Oct 31st” text.
Vintage postcard: witch rides in a watermelon car driven by a grinning pumpkin-headed driver, with a black cat, bat, and crescent moon; citrus-slice wheels.
Vintage postcard: child on a broom teases a cone-hatted black cat popping out of a pumpkin and holding a letter; “Hallowe’en Greetings” text.
Vintage postcard: woman on a giant pumpkin watches small pumpkin-headed figures with pickle-like limbs dance under a starry sky; “Hallowe’en Night” text.
Happy All Hallows Eve! See our selection of Halloween postcards, ca. 1900-1920. Hobgoblins, joyous skeletons, and truly terrifying gourds... publicdomainreview.org/collection/h... #halloween
31.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 116 🔁 47 💬 0 📌 2
Added another 80 images over the last two days, bringing the total collection to 385 historical photographs of all kinds of reading acts in twentieth-century China: chinareading.wordpress.com
30.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
“To leave our students to their own devices — which is to say, to the devices of A.I. companies — is to deprive them of indispensable opportunities to develop their linguistic mastery, and with it their most elementary powers of thought” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... #AI #reading #writing #philsky
31.10.2025 02:20 — 👍 101 🔁 43 💬 4 📌 2
A Kimono decorated with skeletons, from Japan, 1840-1860 CE,
now housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
30.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 2998 🔁 1117 💬 23 📌 88
A pumpkin with the character 靈 carved into it
Bringing some spirit to the holiday #萬聖節
30.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Has anyone ever attempted a Mandarin transcription system alignment chart? 🍿
30.10.2025 18:51 — 👍 39 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 3
Picture of two laptops playing the horror games Detention and Devotion.
I’m not freaked out, you’re freaked out!
30.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
can you feel it? 🕷🕸🧙♀️🍂
30.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 131 🔁 16 💬 5 📌 2
These terrifying bats are looking forward to #Halloween 🦇🦇🦇😱
Bodl. Library MS. Ashmole 304; 13th century; England, St. Albans; f.47v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
29.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 266 🔁 84 💬 3 📌 6
Tombstone carved in the shape of a pump organ, with the name SWAIM carved in it.
#31daysofgraves #29 Occupation.
Tombstone carved in the form of a pump organ marking the grave of music teacher Albert R. Swaim, who died in 1893, aged 49.
Bethany Cemetery, Marshall, Indiana.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/566...
29.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 42 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
1/2 Two new posts, one on visualisingchina.net/blog, on Shanghai's former First World War Memorial (shown below as it never was): visualisingchina.net/blog/2025/10...
29.10.2025 08:40 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Reposting this for #WoodblockWednesday
29.10.2025 07:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The most major of Edo's many conflagrations
29.10.2025 04:52 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1
Post a vampire that's not Dracula.
29.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
子不語怪
28.10.2025 07:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Title page of the book, printed in Shanghai in June 1914
Portrait of the author
A ghost with an eye in its back
A white boned spirit
Found this great illustrated edition of 子不語 (What the Master Didn't Say) from 1914. Printed using lithography, each volume has a few illustrations followed by the text in a compact font. All four volumes are on the @wikimediafoundation.org Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SS...
27.10.2025 09:45 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0
Job Details
JOB> Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford (FT, 3-year) my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
27.10.2025 16:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Already wishlisted and will pick this up when it goes live later today!
27.10.2025 09:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Former editor at China Digital Times. Still making my way over to Bluesky.
Today: prof at Sheffield Hallam U, Senior Associate at CSIS;
Previously: Policy Advisor at Department of Homeland Security in Biden admin
Always: researcher on forced labor
Taiwan-based anthropologist.
人類學家與台灣新住民。
https://kerim.one
My Triptych newsletter:
https://triptych.oxus.net/
Historian of science, museums & collecting in Berlin. Provenance research on objects from colonial contexts in East Asia: Zoological specimens (insects!) from Taiwan // Art & ethnographica from China looted in the 'Boxer War'.
Kayaks, swimming & mountains
The nonprofit organization behind the Python programming language. For help with Python code: http://python.org/about/help/
On Mastodon: @ThePSF@fosstodon.org
Stevan Anastasoff, former White Dwarf writer, and video game designer: Warhammer Online, For Honor, Assassin's Creed, and many more. Now working on Tales from the Mabinogion, a game about Welsh mythology using Welsh as its principal language.
Dutch 3d miniatures designer, TANKHEAD lore author and rusty goldsmith.
@Tankhead-mecha.bsky.social
He/Him
https://tim-popelier.com
Game developer. Mars After Midnight, Return of the Obra Dinn, Papers Please, Republia Times, Helsing's Fire, Mightier, etc.
Australian game designer and former research chemist. One half of Postmark Games. Expect science and game based posts! He/him.
Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MatthewDunstan
Award-winning miniature wargaming author and creator James Morris.
https://mogsymakes.net/
https://mogsymakes.net/midgard/
Midgard Heroic Battles, El Cid and Age of Arthur (with Steve Jones) for Warhammer Ancient Battles, numerous magazine articles.
Master's Student at Yale, East Asian media culture and theory, comparative literature, intellectual history.
Official account for the Leverhulme-funded project Weaponised Pasts: The Evolution of Heritage-based Hostility on Social Media. Learn more at https://www.weaponisedpasts.org
Sociopolitical malcontent. Chinese lit sometimes. 我的名字是一个问号。
Historian of modern China, postdoc at CIW @ Australian National University. Writing a book about Maoist environmentalism during the Cultural Revolution. Also ئۇيغۇر and Xinjiang.
UC Irvine History PhD, co-edit China at LAReviewofBooks.
ZLarchives.com
We are a registered charity working to restore beavers to regenerate our landscapes.
She/her, fledgling postdoctoral medievalist based in Sheffield interested in loyalty, rebellion, rulership, mobility, practices of law & royal imagery in the 14-15C.
President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Professor of Political Philosophy. Lapsed Sydneysider. Montréalais. Habs fan. Mancunion.
Maker of videos, caster of pods, painter of tiny goblins. He/Him.
https://www.youtube.com/snipeandwib
Manchester and Salford anniversaries, memories and photos. Also RTs relating to history and events.
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