Paula Findlen, one of the most eloquent historians and best teachers I have ever known, is delivering the EH Gombrich Lectures next week in London and online. Not to be missed for #earlymodern#skystorianswarburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/lec...
Galileo's Laughter: Knowledge and Play in the Renaissance
i gotta say, as a guy married to a teacher, i’m kind of thrilled to see this teacher representation on the national stage
Finished scanning all eight volumes of the 訂正女子修身教科書 today, a text I knew nothing about until finding a few copies back in March (bsky.app/profile/thia...), and am now fascinated by. Early Minguo textbooks for girls filled with charming illustrations, some regressive values, and patriotism! 1/
Humbled and honoured that my book Power for a Price is named as an honourable mention for this year's Joseph Levenson prize
My book, Poet-Monks, is now out from Cornell University Press. For a free, open-access PDF, simply change "format" to "ebook" and download away. For a physical copy, you can use the code "09BCARD" at checkout for 30% off the hardcover edition (~$46 with discount).
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quant...
If you happen to be in Tokyo, I’m speaking on transnational Asia activist connections, past and present, at Waseda 3pm January 26 (Friday), ending a short stay in www.waseda.jp/fsss/iass/ne...
○テーマ Against the Odds in Asia: Transnational Connections and Regional Activist Alliances from the 1890s to the 2020s ○講演概要 ...
wooooooo how cool!!!
Have you read Perfection Salad by Laura Shapiro yet? There are parts in there about the home economics movement and food reform trying to eliminate what was seen as degenerate or unhealthy lower class food ways, especially among immigrants to the US in the late 19th century
Christian Henriot wrote about the Chinese historical databases at the ENEP blog, with more detail than my own entry: enepchina.hypotheses.org/5400
On 11-12 January 2024, the Lee-Campbell Research Group at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) convened an impressive array of scholars from mainland China, Japan, Hong Kong, and Eur...