"Made in China Journal" published a conversation between Yuan Gao and I about my recent book. @uwapress.uw.edu madeinchinajournal.com/2026/07/27/r...

Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People | Made in China Journal

Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exh...

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Guilty as charged! My parents had an old 1970 edition that we inherited from my grandparents.

S. Kramer@libraryephemera.bsky.social · 6d ago

Were you a child who read The World Book Encyclopedia for fun?

It's a good day to share some historical background behind my debut novel, right?

Happy to be in the lovely city of Edinburgh for the History of Science Society conference. This Scottish weather is a perfect respite from the Virginia humidity.

A cute chonkster with a tragic backstory-- Hanpyo (한표) was captured in 1962 as one of the last wild Amur leopards in South Korea. These leopards once ranged throughout Korea but were overhunted. Photo is from his later years at Seoul's Changgyeongwon Zoo.

Are you getting ready for a spooky summer? 👻 We have just the thing! Revisit some quality bakemono and yokai in this #NCCSpotlight by Jack Stoneman (Brigham Young University), introducing their Edo period Pictures of Monsters scroll! 💀 #妖怪 #化け物 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

#CFP Porous Worlds: Histories, Environments, and Material Relations at the Surface-Subsurface Interface (Bergen, October 28-29, 2026), due September 1. Workshop explores relationship between surface and subsurface w/ keynote by @gabriellehecht.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extractivism #histstm

Hard to believe the book has been out for almost two years! Late tonight I'll be giving what may be my last "new book" talk. Many thanks to SNU's Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies for hosting!

"Let's incinerate this tendency!"--1950s North Korean cartoon criticizing endless meetings. And this was made before the hellishness of Zoom meetings...

This will be a key text for years to come on the history of capitalism in the Japanese Empire, and the transformation of Korean rural society under empire. So looking forward to it!

sakura christmas@prof-christmas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ridiculously excited for Holly Stephens, whose EMPIRE BY ASSOCIATION, will be out in September, on the economic history of rural Korea under Japanese colonialism, now with a vibrant new cover by @yalepress.bsky.social Just about every history book starts with one of two openers, either

Always a good day for Song dynasty cat poetry

Brendan O’Kane@bokane.org · 2mo ago

贈貓詩 For My Cat 執鼠無功元不劾，一簞魚飯以時來。 看君終日常安臥，何事紛紛去又回？ You haven’t caught any mice. I let it go. The fish and rice were set out at the appointed hour. I watched you drowse the day away — so now What’s got you galloping madly everywhere? --Lu You 陸游 (1125-1210)

TOMORROW Join us for Tuesday's #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" with @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

DIJ Tokyo@dijtokyo.org · 3mo ago

Registration is now open for the upcoming #DIJStudyGroup "The Aikoku Fujinkai and Social Welfare Work in Colonial Taiwan and Korea" 🎤 @merlekar.bsky.social (Harvard University/DIJ Tokyo) 📅 June 9, 2026 / 6.30 pm JST / 11.30 am CEST 🏚️🖥️ online & onsite @ DIJ Tokyo ▶️ www.dijtokyo.org/event/the-ai...

Wow, @universitypress.cambridge.org keeps putting out bangers on early modern Japan! Can’t wait for Laura Nenzi’s Japan After Dark, which challenges the idea that 19th-c. electrification disenchanted night www.cambridge.org/core/books/j... #envhum #envhist #histstm #AsianStudies

This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)

배뢰아@baessi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

일본사 전공한 독일 역사학자가 한국사의 노예제에 관한 책을 냈는데 한국어와 중국어를 못 해서 AI로 번역시켜서 자료를 읽었다고 써 놓음. 😡 무려 De Gruyter Brill 출판사에서… 📖 Zöllner, Reinhard. Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea, De Gruyter, 2025. doi.org/10.1515/9783...

"Let's Raise More Dogs!"--a few pics of some very good doggies from a 1960s North Korean magazine. One on the left is from the unique NK "Pungsan" breed, described as "docile to humans but fierce towards its enemies."

Happening tomorrow! Really looking forward to chatting with @sayakachatani.bsky.social

Modern Japan History Association@modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

In a week! Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790

can't think of a time i've smashed the order button harder www.sup.org/books/asian-...

Trump on wars longer than the current Iran mess, we have an 8 year Korean War…has he been reading Bruce Cumings and co. and is going for 1945-1953? 🤔😜

In a week! Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore) on her new book “A Nation Within: North Korean Zainichi in Postimperial Japan”, in conversation with Yumi Kim (University of California Berkeley) and Joseph Seeley (University of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6602790

Three incredible books—one big honor: 📚 Poet-Monks (@tommazanec.bsky.social) 📚 Ecological States (Jesse Rodenbiker) 📚 Border of Water and Ice (Joseph A. Seeley) All 2026 ACLS OA Book Prize + Arcadia Awards finalists! Congrats! 🎉 🔗 bsky.app/profile/acls...

American Council of Learned Societies@acls1919.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

Excited to share my latest article in @modamhist.bsky.social. Focuses on a top-secret Army dog-training project that used Japanese Americans as live bait during World War II.

Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards! Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD

ACLS Names 2026 Finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

Thirty titles advance to final round for six $50,000 prizes for open access books in the humanities and social sciences

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So thrilled to have my book named as a finalist for the ACLS @acls1919.bsky.social Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!! Many thanks to all who helped this happen, especially my editors at the OA Environments of East Asia book series at Cornell!

Thrilled that my article on postal horses in ancient China has been published in the latest #AnimalHistory! 🐎 What do excavated administrative texts from 1st C. BCE-CE tell us about equine life and labour on the edge of empire? A lot, it turns out! (1/4) #Xuanquan #postalhorses ✉️🛞🐴

if you happen to be 1) interested in Korea; 2) interested in the environmental humanities; and 3) in SoCal in early June, please consider coming to a conference I've organized with my dear colleagues Eleana Kim, Albert Park, and Juwon Lee. Details 👇

an embarrassment of riches in the latest issue of Environmental History www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/eh/current

14 May 4pm EASTERN Dr. #RussellBurge #Seoul #Korea #History #booktalk #koreasociety "The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979" Zoom registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The scheduled air routes of the Japan Air Transport Co. (Oct. 1938 – Mar. 1939), which doubles as a fascinating diagram of the civil aviation infrastructure then collapsing the distance of the Japanese empire

Tomorrow! Really looking forward to moderating this discussion about @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social's fantastic new book!

Modern Japan History Association@modernjapanhist.bsky.social · 3mo ago

On May 4! Hannah Shepherd (Yale U) on her new book “The Narrowing Sea: Fukuoka, Pusan, and the Rise and Fall of an Imperial Region”, in conversation with Tessa Morris-Suzuki (Australian National U) and Joseph Seeley (U of Virginia). Register for Zoom here: mjha.org/event-6433046

Come check out Library Journal's Day of Dialog on May 7! Amazing authors and librarians will be chatting about upcoming books. (As a little debut author, I'm honored to be on a panel with some big stars in historical fiction 😄)