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/…

China Classic Animation Festival 中国经典动画电影节 Prince Charles Cinema June 1–3 2023 in memory of Yan Dingxian 严定宪 (1936–2022) / xhslink.com/Ts3GGp

Friends in London, I will be giving a talk at the China Institute on 22 May, 2023. I will discuss why Lu Xun did not like Pearl Buck. A New Project. I am looking forward to seeing you there! soas.ac.uk/about/event/po…

My department asked me to give a brief talk about #GPT to them to help folks learn more about what's going on. Here are my #tips in distilled form.

My article on Chinese danmei! “Chinese Danmei: Male-Male Romance, Women’s Fantasy, and the Feminization of Labor in the Digital Age” The Palgrave Handbook of Global Fantasy | SpringerLink link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

We are recruiting a Senior Library Assistant (Fixed Term, 3-years) at Chinese Section (Department of World Collections, Research Collections Directorate) at Cambridge University Library. Please help to spread the word or consider to apply by 20 August. lib.cam.ac.uk/job/senior-lib…

Loved working on this enchanting collection of stories. Congrats to the brilliant Bingbing Shi and our amazing team of translators @JackDHargreaves 朱弘昱 Hongyu Jasmine Zhu Flossie Taylor Helen Wang #ReadingTheCity

It’s here!! Finished copies of The Book of Beijing edited by Bingbing Shi now available to order, featuring alternative street-level perspectives into life in China’s capital city. #ReadingTheCity #Beijing commapress.co.uk/books/the-book…

Our new book was spotted at the HongKongBookFair! I haven't held a copy in my hands yet but I look forward to giving book talks in the Autumn (SOAS and Oxford). Any suggestions for other venues that might be interested (or even invitations to speak!) would be gratefully received.

We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Classical Chinese and Middle-Period China, starting Sep. 1 2024, deadline for apps Dec. 8. Please RT! Full details here: jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/41685/ Chinese Studies at the University of Cambridge FAMES_Cambridge Cambridge University BACS 英国汉学协会 Association for Asian Studies

FT: Chinese feminists flock to see ‘Barbie,' which stands out among the patriotic & male-led action fare perenially on offer. The number of Barbie showings in #China jumped from 9,673 on July 21, the first day of release, to about 36,000 on July 27 ft.com/content/f3eaa2…

Great article about the Chinese indie game Sanfu and why it's stirring up so much anticipation: superpixel.com/article/45129/… #sinophonegamestudies

Chinese video games are on the rise, but I wish they got more respect #sinophonegamestudies theguardian.com/games/2023/aug…

A very hearty congratulations to SOAS University of London's Aixia Huang @ai_x1a for winning the #BACS2023 Early Career Researcher Prize for their remarkable paper, "Transgender Things: Objects and the Materiality of Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing #China." Kudos, Aixia! soas.ac.uk/about/aixia-hu…

Writing Chinese: Technology and Literature #CFP [special issue guest edited by Heather Inwood 殷海洁 w/ keynotes by Michel Hockx & Jiang Yuqin] Deadline: 31st August 2024 u.osu.edu/mclc/2024/06/2… The Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing

My article, "Space Games: Ecologies of Scale and Technologies of Hope in Taiwan's OPUS Game Trilogy" came out recently in Games & Culture - it's an ecocritical take on some cool Taiwanese indie sci-fi games journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… #sinophonegamestudies SIGONO

Behold! We have an exciting new MPhil programme here at Cambridge called "East Asia Popular Culture Across Time." We're accepting applications now for 2026 entry - please help spread the word! ames.cam.ac.uk/east-asian-pop…

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Korean Popular Culture in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies here at Cambridge - please help spread the word! Full details here: cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistant…