Aaron William Moore
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Researchers! Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? In this episode of Beyond the Books, Beth talks to self-professed fox-type, Dr Xuelei Huang. From cinema to smells, they dive into the softer side of history and cultural cosmopolitism in Republican China. Full episode: youtu.be/lrl234hkIZo
New article: 'Seeing the Future: Four Stages of Japanese Science Fiction's Literary Evolution, 1870-1937'. A short guide on how the genre was formed well before there was Godzilla or Astroboy. Wild tales from the archives: serena.sharepress.it/giappone/art... #日本sf #科学小説 #sciencefiction #日本科幻 #sf
SEEING THE FUTURE: FOUR STAGES OF JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT, 1870-1937 | Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche
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Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... @asianstudiesed.bsky.social @bethp1.bsky.social @hanofdan.bsky.social @aaronwmoore.bsky.social
Scents of China
Cambridge Core - Asian Literature - Scents of China
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New #AsiaNow post: Xiaofei Kang speaks about her Oxford University Press book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953, which received the 2025 post-1900 Levenson Prize. buff.ly/NV3Ormh
A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'
Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.“If ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ is about destruction, ‘How Maoism Was Made’ is about making.” @guobin-yang.bsky.social reviews two books on Maoist China. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-maoisms/
In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social
Two Maoisms | Los Angeles Review of Books
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
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Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Dr Seth Jacobowitz: "The Forensic Turn in Modern Britain and Japan: Criminology, the Human Sciences, and Detective Fiction" | IASH
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Discussing wartime Japanese children's artwork with Marcos Centeno @uv.es through the TRAMEVIC project on EA war memory & visual culture. #自由画運動 #childhist #tramevic #学童疎開 #wwii #evacuation #amateurart #第二次世界大戦 #戦争史 uv.es/tramevic
The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences. Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss. 📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th century in a bid for independence.
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This Thursday at 4pm CEST I am delivering a Zoom lecture for Heidelberg entitled 'Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937'. Please email Barend Noordam (barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de) for the code. (ambivalentenmity.org)
The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc. meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
映像でみる明治の日本
動画一覧｜映像でみる明治の日本 The Meiji Period on Film - 祝！日本映画120年！「映像でみる明治の日本」を公開しました。芸能、文化、記録など多様な映像をご覧ください。
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Coming soon this year: _The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan_, edited with Seth Jacobowitz. 28 essays and 5 short stories by one of Japan's most important interwar intellectuals, trans. by an international team of scholars. Crucial for teaching.
Released at end of 2024: _How Maoism Was Made_, edited with Jennifer Altehenger, published by Oxford University Press. 17 contributors wrote chapters on science, art, economy, and many more topics, plus our critical introduction. My chapter looks at diaries from the 1950s, in former KMT cities.
Londoners! I am giving the Annual International History Lecture at the LSE in just under two weeks. I hope to see you there. #history #科学小説 #sciencefiction www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
Robot nation: imagining the artificial person in east Asian popular culture, 1900-1937
Robot Nation: Imagining the Artificial Person in East Asian Popular Culture, 1900-1937. International History LSE Annual Lecture Professor Aaron Moore.
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