Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin@historytcd.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Conference on Gender in Chinese History to be held at UCC, 25 March, featuring @isabellajackson.bsky.social as keynote, and Ezra Kücken, Yuxuan Lang, and Dr Yushu Geng also speaking.

Dr. @isabellajackson.bsky.social gave a talk for the Dublin Lunar New Year festival on classical Chinese gardens, including the one in Dublin's St Anne's Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOV...

Isabella Jackson (TCD) -- Classical Chinese Gardens through the Centuries

YouTube video by TCAS: Trinity Centre for Asian Studies

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Out now: Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History, edited by Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social and Yushu Geng, Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social #histchild #histed doi.org/10.4324/9781003321859

Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History | Isabella Jackson, Yus

At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past

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My PhD student Yuxuan Lang gave a great paper on photographs of Chinese slave-girls in Guangzhou at the fascinating Global Urban History Project in Berlin today ‪@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social‬ @historytcd.bsky.social

Celebrating 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies with my excellent PhD students, Dexter Tse and Yuxuan Lang! @historytcd.bsky.social

Great to see lovely former students as we celebrated 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, including my first PhD graduate, Dr Meishan Zhang, and Chiara Mastronardo who was one of our early MPhil Chinese Studies students!

Congratulations to Ka Lo Yau on her PhD graduation! Her thesis title was Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). She was funded by her supervisor Isabella Jackson's Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD

📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder. #skystorians @historytcd.bsky.social For more information, see here 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Great to see my colleague @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speaking at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC tonight

My husband, Adam Hanna, wrote this beautiful obituary for Michael Longley:

Adam Hanna@adamhanna.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've written a short piece on Michael Longley - less an obituary than an appreciation. booksirelandmagazine.com/as-long-as-t... Pictures: Portrait by Colin Davidson in the National Gallery of Ireland; with Seamus Heaney on the Hill of Tara in 2010.

A warning about Chinese control of information if its technology is accepted globally: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan

The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government

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Had a great time at a conference on diplomacy and cultural encounters in turn-of-the-century East Asia in Cambridge this week, with an excellent paper by @clarem212.bsky.social and a keynote by yours truly

Looking forward to this on Monday

Department of History, Trinity College Dublin@historytcd.bsky.social · 2y ago

Isabella Jackson is giving a keynote at a conference at the Cambridge History Faculty on'Diasporas, Diplomacy and Dreams of Modernity: Cultural Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century East Asia' and her keynote is 'Foreign Office Imperialism: China’s treaty ports and the British Foreign Office'.

Bowled over by the British Library Dunhuang manuscripts exhibition. Here, the rules for a woman's club from 959, with 15 female signatories, each of whom signed a mark under her name.