Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

Gardening’s not all roses. Today’s accomplishment? Cardboard #gardening #landscaping #sheetmulching #nolawns open.substack.com/pub/readingm...

Of mulch and men

a cardboardy day

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I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem Resharing for all the wins and losses of this hour

Talk about timely! From two first rate legal historians:

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🚨 New article alert: Sam Erman and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal on the origins of birthright citizenship "Inventing Birthright: The Nineteenth-Century Fabrication of jus soli and jus sanguinis" Open access ✅ doi.org/10.1017/S073...

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Do you know who should be the next Translator in Residence at the U of Iowa? Tell them to apply!

In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則. It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

nterview about my book on Sino-Korean relations in 1300s-1600s: Boundless Winds of Empire On New Books Network. With @Sarah Bramao-Ramos @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #KoreanHistory #ChineseHistory newbooksnetwork.com/boundless-wi... Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritu

Be my colleague at the Harvard-Yenching Library! We just opened our search for the next Librarian for #JapaneseStudies, who will become a core member of our small but mighty team. As with every job, you don't need to satisfy every qualification to apply. www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/harv...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡨᠠᡨᠠᠨ (tatan, from tatambi) 1. a camp, a stopping place, an encampment 2. territory of a tribe 3. lodging coron tatan: a yurt (木架窩舖) tatan i boo: residence, abode tatan i da: chief of a camp (夥長) tatan tobo: a simple lodging made of willow branches (帷幄) #Manchu #language #滿文

“First, to have none. Not to be tied.” -Virginia Woolf’s 1931 #NewYearsResolutions will do nicely (Diary Vol. 4: 1931-35, Mariner Books)

One of my current projects explores #non-Han #fiction & #poetry. On the former, I wrote an article for *World #Literature Today*. I've given talks on the broader project. I'm open to giving more. 🀄📚 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january...

China’s Minority Fiction, by Sabina Knight

Multiethnic fiction speaks volumes about Chinese attitudes toward minorities, as well as these peoples’ historical understandings, their search for roots, and longings for cultural survival.

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Do you want to find the best #books on #Korea? Well, I don't have time to read everything, but I do have some recommendations. These are, mostly, academic books. I don't read many mass market books on Korea, and when I do, I'm often annoyed with their facile shallow misunderstandings.

Four Biggest Lies Told To You By Your Friends (meme shared by the Taiwan's National Palace Museum)

ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced! The winner is Professor Tristan Brown’s book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023). Honorable mentions have been awarded to Professor Haiyan Lee and Professor Michael Ng.

In other news, my investigation for Al Jazeera reveals how foreign patients seeking plastic surgery in South Korea face risks from unlicensed brokers, misleading reviews, and confidentiality agreements that silence negative experiences. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

As South Korea draws visitors chasing beauty, dodgy practices pose risks

Thousands flock to East Asian country for cosmetic surgeries each year, often relying on unregulated forums for advice.

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ManchuOfTheDay ᡠᠰᡝᡵᡳ (useri, from use) n. pomegranate; cf. šilio useri cuse moo: a bamboo-like plant that forms red seed pods (闌天竹) useri šugi: 石榴酱 #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠰᡳᠯᡳᠨ (silin, from silimbi) topnotch, elite, crack troops (精銳) silin dacun: crack (troops), select, topnotch silin dacungga kūwaran: Light Division (健銳營) #Manchu #language #滿文

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

R. Kent Guy's THREE IMPEACHMENTS is a rich and enticing probe into a key moment in late imperial Chinese history. Now available in print and #OpenAccess, made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅. Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠰᡠᡴᡡ (sukū) 1. skin, hide, pelt, leather "wahan i bek šaijagan . . . loho juwe, silun sukū juwe afaha be belek doroi obume alibuha (Wakhan's beg Shah Jahan presented 2 swords and 2 lynx pelts as gifts)" 2. fruit peel #Manchu #language #滿文

Have been pointing a lot of people recently to Carter Eckert's biography of Park Chung-hee to help contextualize the current moment in SK politics, and learned this morning that he's just passed away. An incredibly generous person and brilliant scholar. May his memory be a blessing.

Seeing some takes that South Korea’s victory today is thanks to defections within the ruling party. Of course there is some truth to this—but it should not be the main lesson. Without the public pressure for accountability, would they have showed up + voted their conscience?

My new article looks at Chinese Hui, Uyghur, and Salar Muslims adapting to the dynamics of urban social life in the early years of Xi Jinping. Being Muslim doesn't guarantee social or spatial affinity over class, experience, labor, personal history differences... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U...

Urbanization, relational space, and practicing Muslim ethnicity in Western China

In recent decades, market reforms, inter-regional mobility, and urbanization have shaped Muslim groups’ social practices, simultaneously encouraging the development of Islamic places (and reinforci...

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There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them: Mandarin: tā Cantonese: keoi5 Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i Southern Wu: gi, ji #langsky 🀄️📚 1/

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡥᡡᠵᡳᡵᡳ (hūjiri) adj. alkaline, alkali, soda, bittern hūjiri ba: an alkaline place "ilan uwase karun cohome hūjiri ba, aniyadari dasacibe urui šungkume tuhembi (Ilan Uwase karun is an especially alkaline place and constantly sinks despite annual upkeep) #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠮᠠᠰᡝ (mase) 1. pockmarks 2. a pockmarked person; cf. kerkeri mase usiha: walnut mase muyari: lychee #Manchu #language #滿文

Oh yeah, you can learn more about the book, or buy it, here: www.sup.org/books/middle...

Elastic Empire | Stanford University Press

The United States integrated counterterrorism mandates into its aid flows in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the early years of the global war on terror. Some two decades later, this securitized m...

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SUP Mktg Dir@supmktg.bsky.social · 2y ago

So excited - congratulations, @lbhungalia.bsky.social! I think this might have been the very first book for which I was part of the acquisitions discussion at @stanfordpress.bsky.social; it knocked my socks off then, and knocks my socks off still. So pleased to see it gain this recognition.

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠪᡠᠯᠵᠠᡴᡡ (bulcakū, from bulcambi) n. a person who dislikes and avoids work "ele bulcakū akdafi ojorakū ([They are] all slackers [and] aren't dependable)" #Manchu #language #滿文