"In the past year, I’ve been on the receiving end of more racial aggression than in the previous twenty-five years living in Berkeley." Read Colleen Lye's "On the Fortieth Anniversary of the Murder of Vincent Chin: What Is Anti-Asian Violence?" critinq.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/on-…

"...Cambridge colleges in companies heavily involved in slave trading, such as the East India Company and the South Sea Company, as well as the wealth derived from slavery by the university’s graduates, fellows and benefactors as recently as the 1850s" theguardian.com/education/2022…

We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.

A fortnight til publication day-- why wait when you can pre-order now? amazon.com/Agents-Subvers…

Is the paper you need stuck behind a paywall? Five websites every researcher should know to access any research paper for free Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the cover of Newsweek April 22nd, 1963

MATERIAL CONTRADICTIONS IN MAO'S CHINA Scholars of art, cinema, culture, and performance share groundbreaking research on the objects and practices of everyday life in Mao’s China -- from bamboo and bricks to dance and film.  November 2022 University of Washington Press uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029575…

But from my experience, I still believe that education should be available for poor people to get rid of poverty. Use it, but don't abuse it. Respect the authors. 1) download the Tor browser (torproject.org) 2) copy zlibrary link from Wikipedia

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Parution à venir en chinois de mon ouvrage La Littérature à l'ère de l'Anthropocène 《人類世的文學》要上市！

Nick Stember Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge "Camera luminosa: Ghostly apparitions and supernatural photography in The Shade (1981)" Friday 18th November 3.30-5pm #NeedhamResearchInstituteSeminar 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF

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NSTC will run the application process. The opportunity closes 7 February 2023. UK applicants should coordinate with their Taiwan principle investigator to follow the NSTC guidelines. ukri.org/opportunity/es…

A #manuscript attributed to Isaac Newton’s friend John Wickins recently sold at auction for £62,750. How a Cambridge scholar authenticated it and why the price was relatively modest: ow.ly/k5Iw50LIT6y

St Antony's College, University of Oxford Sarah Liu @drsarahliu.bsky.social Oxford School of Global & Area Studies Asian Studies Centre Taiwan in the UK SSU-HAN YU It has been an exciting day here for all in the Investcorp Auditorium for the #OxfordTaiwanStudies Programme launch. Given the fantastic lineup, it's no surprise that there's a real sense of excitement among attendees about the future of Taiwan (and Sinophone) Studies.

Let's try something - ask chatGPT to compose an *amusing* tweet about academic life, and post it here. Let's see what are the results

My translation of Ng Kim Chew, “Why Does a Failed Revolution Also Need Fiction?: On the Mahua Genre of Failed Revolutionary Historical Fiction” is now available online in Prism: Theory and Modern Chinese Literature! read.dukeupress.edu/prism/article/…

This week our mammoth special issue on National Traditions of Sinology edited by Josh Fogel appeared in print - 400 pages, 15 papers in the journal that covers all of Chinese history: Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Barak Kushner’s new book is about out. —Big deal!