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Kate Merkel-Hess
@katemh.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China. Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016). China, history, books, feminism, COVID & chronic illness.
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This is why I read it too. Just got madder the more I read.

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YES. Thank you. I saw this (as their top story!) this morning, read it, and was just like, I can’t. I’m not a specialist in this area of research, but saw so many problems, assumptions, etc. it’s a real choice on CHE’s part to run it and feature it.

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Reading Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order by Yuan Yang. Listening to Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal. Both great.

Cover for the book "Private Revolutions: Four Women Face China's New Social Order" by Yuan Yang. Depicts four women seated on a dock over the water with a mountain in the background.
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I teach that subject, and it's not uncommon for students to hold that belief before we've reviewed the history.

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Would read.

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Oh, I didn’t notice that the author is Emma Green until you flagged this. She did a hit piece on the People’s C.D.C. two years ago too.

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I didn't want to be hyperbolic, but I think it's one of the best things I've ever read on Covid in terms of explaining the science in a digestible way -- clear, straightforward, no euphemism, good sourcing, empathetic.

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Yes! That’s what struck me about it - the familiarity of this emotion in middle age, so far removed from its composition.

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Yessss! Like Madonna after she married Guy Ritchie.

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Kate Merkel-Hess
@katemh.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China. Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016). China, history, books, feminism, COVID & chronic illness.
226 followers273 following68 posts