Tom Burnham

Half durian, half Hawaiian pizza? Well, I don't mind if I do

杨崧愉：美国左翼史学戳破主流历史叙事神话

Yang Songyu: Leftwing American Historiography Exposes the Myths of Mainstream Historical Narratives

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)

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“L‘Internationale on the move: Case studies on the world’s most translated anthem”

In Chronotopos: A Journal of Translation History, 1/24, p. 163.

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New deep dish communion wafer?

Short thread on the very first official Chinese Star Wars comic ⤵️ #ChineseStarWars #StarWars #lianhuanhua

At the April 1955 Bandung Conference, Chinese Prime Minister Zhou Enlai took a moderate stance, easing fears among some anticommunist delegates. A decade later, China and Indonesia pushed for a second Asian-African conference, but India, Yugoslavia, and Egypt organized rival nonaligned meetings.

'Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism' 2025

I'll be giving a talk at Oxford on Thursday 1 May. Everyone is welcome!
5月1日木曜にオックスフォード大学で講演します。来てください！

'Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism'
Thursday 1 May 2025, 5pm
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How do you say, 'Down low. Too slow!' in Latin?

Essay | Meet MAGA’s Favorite Communist Conservative activists like Christopher Rufo are taking inspiration from Antonio Gramsci, the 20th-century Marxist thinker who drew up a battle plan for winning culture wars.

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"The right needs a Gramsci," Rufo added, "and my own ambition is to serve in a similar capacity, an architect of the new right politics."

The World of the Cold War — timely reading in an age of US, Russia and China tensions Vladislav Zubok’s monumental account is not just history, but a reassessment of a stand-off that still shapes geopolitics today

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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢

We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!

📅Deadline 9th May

📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk

For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...

So cool!

Poster for the conference "Lianhuanhua as Method" Heidelberg Univeristy 24-26 April 2025

In just over a week, we invite all scholars and students of Chinese comics to Heidelberg for our first #ChinaComx workshop! Revolving around the theme "Lianhuanhua as Method", expect lively discussions and fascinating case studies. For the program and details, go to: tinyurl.com/LianhuanhuaA... 🌟

Metamodern memory: on Blade Runner, then and now In this article, we analyze the film Blade Runner 2049 to point to the emergence of a contemporary form of memory – what we call ‘metamodern memory’ – which correlates with the structure of feeling...

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'This comparison points to the reactionary nature of metamodern memory, which should serve as a cautionary tale for memory studies.'

'Costigliola’s biography leaves little doubt that... (the) most durable elements (in Kennan's thinking) were precisely his skepticism vis-à-vis industrial capitalism and what he called “the fetish of democracy.” These were not quirks... they were fundaments of his worldview from start to finish.'

'After conceiving it in 1946 and helping it become the lodestar of US foreign policy, did he change his mind?... Or was he... forced to spend much of his later career inveighing against Washington’s disastrous misapplication of his idea in cold war Europe, Vietnam, and elsewhere?'

The Enigma of George Kennan | Benjamin Nathans Frank Costigliola's biography of George Kennan explores the contrast between the supreme confidence of his policy prescriptions and the perpetual turbulence of his inner life.

@nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202... 'Debates about Kennan invariably focus on his fraught relationship with the strategy of containment.'

Good Pesach to those who observe.

'3.) linking with other research approaches, integrating "policy history" with institutional history, ideological and cultural history, and social history, fully integrating various "peripheral historical materials".'

'2.) focusing downwards by paying attention to the issues of "local decision-making" and "policy linkages", accumulating a large amount of local original archives;'

'This article advocates for...: 1.) going beyond the boundaries of policy history by making use of "basic historical materials" so as to examine policy changes from the perspective of "policy chains 政策链条" and "policy networks 政策网络";'

'Most rely upon thin historical materials, with the content revolving around the frameworks of "meeting minutes" and "policy papers". Such histories easily "get stuck in mountains of routine paperwork 文山会海 and official ideology", leaving people with a dry and vague feeling.'

'... a history of policy might represent the best combination of historical materials and topics for any preliminary research into Reform and Opening.... However... while policy histories of Reform and Opening are not uncommon, full and accurate treatments are.'

'On the other, because archival access is limited and there is a lack of specialised compilations of historical materials, the huge increase in peripheral materials and the insufficiency of core materials have left researchers innundated with texts 汗牛充栋 but without a clear idea of where to begin.'

'On the one hand, while it has not yet been 40 years since the third plenary session of the 11th Central Committee, there is already a wealth of all kinds of materials.'

'...whether or not academic research is practical rests on the the pairing and combination of historical materials and topics, to the exent that, "on one level, the quality of research depends on the author's grasp of 'materials' and 'topics.' " This is particularly true of Reform and Opening....'

Critical China Scholars syllabus is out! I did the labor section