For today‘s #InternationalMuseumDay we'd like to tell you a little bit about ourselves: The MOFBA, or "Museum Of Foreign Brand Advertising", is a private & non-profit collection in Shanghai, China. It showcases the captivating history of international brands advertising &... 1/5

On this podcast we look at the work and legacy of Lynn Pan, the doyenne of writers on #Shanghai history, culture and society, who died last year — with Paul French, Frances Wood, Michelle Garnaut and Jeffrey Wasserstrom. #SOAS Listen here: soas-china-institute.buzzsprout.com/1669327/episod…

I will give a book talk and also lead a collective reading group based on my new book Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage Sociology 2024) at esea contemporary in Manchester on 17 May, All welcome! eseacontemporary.org/events/book-ta…

Very excited to have been asked to participate- many thanks Paul Bevan and Amanda! I’m looking forward to it!

A varied programme of talks on Shanghai dance hall culture, pictorial magazines, the early fiction of Zhang Ailing, the ‘Modern Boy’, and Shanghai popular song. All subjects very close to my heart. Hope to see you there!

It's finally available! I contributed with an essay titled "20th Century China: War, Change, and Turmoil." Primary sources by BFI were travelogues, short films, including some of the earliest moving images ever captured of #China before 1912. amdigital.co.uk/collection/chi…

I’m thrilled to host our first WongAvery Visiting Scholar from UCSD and honored to appear in the video as Emma’s supervisor here at Cambridge University Library. Super happy that the UL’s Chinese collections are being used broadly.

Updated details for our study day on 7 May. A varied programme of talks on Shanghai dance hall culture, pictorial magazines, the early fiction of Zhang Ailing, the ‘Modern Boy’, and Shanghai popular song. Hope to see you there! No registration required. Room G08.

My colleague Blazej Mikula will talk about his excellent work on Digitizing Chinese Oracle Bones tomorrow, at a digital humanities workshop in King’s College London. Cambridge University Library’s digitized oracle bones has been publishing to Cambridge Digital Library: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/wo…

This Friday in Cambridge!

TOMORROW: PWH Faculty Fellow Fiona Cunningham will be discussing her new book, "Under the Nuclear Shadow: China's Information-Age Weapons in International Security" with Financial Times's Demetri. *The first 25 Penn students will receive a free copy of the book!* eventbrite.com/e/under-the-nu…

How the Getty Provenance Index is transforming art research. [🧵1/9]

Photos from our Study Day on the 7th taken by Amanda Zhang. Speakers were Amanda, Dylan K. Wang, Liz Emrich-Rouge, Yushu Geng, and me. It was a great success. The audience was engaged throughout and asked some excellent questions.

Art really can change how you think! 🧠🎨 Reflecting on artistic beauty can boost abstract thinking and evoke transcendent emotions, finds a Dept of Psychology study conducted by Simone Schnall and Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė at @KettlesYard 👇 cam.ac.uk/stories/artist…

Big congratulations to our amazing PhD and PhD students at @CambridgeFAMES for launching 劍橋文藝—the very first Chinese-language literary magazine created by our own students! The inaugural issue is just out, with the title calligraphy done by the renowned artist Meilin Han.

Please join us for an in-person conference on 'Southern Encounters', hosted by Margaret Hillenbrand Oxford Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies - 6 June, 10:30-15:00 BST. To register, please visit chinacentre.ox.ac.uk

Please read my review of Huang Xuelei’s Scents of China. Then read her book. It’s good! The Shanghai Literary Review shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-co…

"Chinese Characters Across Asia" by Zev Handel [ARB review asianreviewofbooks.com/chinese-charac…] & "Codes of Modernity: Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age" by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-un…

A significant contribution to offer a bird’s eye view of East Asian Historiography edited by Q Eward Wang. And my own humble chapter to be part of this lineup of stellar scholars across the world.

A belated news: my colleague Błażej Mikuła and I co-delivered a presentation on our Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge Library at the 45th European Association of Sinological Librarians (EASL) conference held at British Library on Sept 12.