My department is hiring an assistant professor of (post-1945) Korean history. Come work with me! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10290 Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions about the position. And I'd be ever so grateful if you could spread the word to potentially interested parties.

Assistant Professor of Korean History (post-1945)

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Broadly enough defined that it could include Asian Art History

Danielle Terrazas Williams@drdanielletw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Job Opportunity! University of California Berkeley - Assistant Professor - Arts of the Medieval World - History of Art Department networks.h-net.org/jobs/70147/u...

Related to Kern’s new book. I edited the first few drafts then passed it along to Brill when it got too big for JASPA. Definitely worth reading as it synthesizes, and builds upon, much scholarship on recently excavated manuscripts related to the Odes 詩經 brill.com/display/titl...

Writing and Community in 300 BCE China

"Writing and Community in 300 BCE China" published on 23 Jun 2026 by Brill.

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Marco Pouget@marcopouget.bsky.social · last mo.

Prof. Martin Kern (Princeton) will give a lecture on "Writing and Community in 300 BCE China. The Canonical Poems (Shi 詩) at the Chu 楚 Capital of Ying 郢" @lmu.de on July 14th. I am thrilled he followed the invitation by our project and will even be giving a masterclass to our cohort.

Check out the StoryMap I made about Kenneth Ch'en, one of the founding figures of Buddhist Studies in North America, who also led a fascinating life: arcg.is/1uaGG51

Kenneth Ch'en (1907–1993)

A Life of the Move

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saddened to hear of the recent passing of Victor Mair, one of the giants in my academic field, sinology. A few reflections on my own encounters with him and his work. (Warning: long thread that originally appeared as a long Facebook post: 15 posts below.)

I know he was also working on a dictionary of Tang vernacular Chinese, much of it based on Dunhuang manuscripts and the poetry of Wang Fanzhi 王梵志. I hope that this was finished or near finished, as it will be (yet another) invaluable contribution to the (yet another) field.

Brendan O’Kane@bokane.org · last mo.

Victor had a ton of material on Dungan 東干 (and probably a lot of other things!) in his home that he had planned to do something with someday. Not sure who will/can take it, but when his basement flooded 10+ years ago he saved that before he saved his childhood photos.

I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org) on the topic of "The History of Chinese Food Culture" with my former advisee Wandi Wang. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/

I co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Chinese History (published by @universitypress.cambridge.org) on the topic of "The History of Chinese Food Culture" with my former advisee Wandi Wang. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/

(Unofficial) Hucker for Pleco.

Brendan O’Kane@bokane.org · 2mo ago

Friday night, time to go wild.

Issue 146.2 of JASPA has been published and is now available online at lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos. Here's the East Asia section, which I edited. Touches on everything from the earliest poetry translation into Chinese to Tangut Buddhism to Tang Christianity. @aspa1842.bsky.social 1/

Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

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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

Honored to have my book, Poet-Monks (published with @cornellupress.bsky.social), be a finalist for the American Council of Learned Society's Open Access Book Prize in the category of Literary / Media Studies. Winning titles will be announced in the fall. www.acls.org/programs/ope...

Open Access Book Prizes

ACLS offers new prizes for open access monographs, funded by Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

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Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA) Vol. 146 No. 1 (2026) lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @aspa1842.bsky.social @tommazanec.bsky.social

Another article now out, on literary and religious infrastructure in the Tang. Pleased to see it published in the journal Religion & Literature, from Notre Dame. Let me tell you why this one is important to me... 1/

Latest is out in History of Religions. "Buddhist Poetry by Its Persecutors: The Cases of Li Shen and Li Deyu." www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... If you don't have institutional access to this journal, feel free to reach out to me for a copy.

Buddhist Poetry by Its Persecutors: The Cases of Li Shen and Li Deyu | History of Religions: Vol 65, No 3

Abstract As the highest ministers in the Tang empire in 842–45 CE, Li Shen and Li Deyu were responsible for overseeing one of the most intense persecutions of Buddhism. For this reason, scholars have ...

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Hey all, I’ll be presenting at 2 AAS events, one on Friday, one on Saturday. See below. I’ve been super limited lately as I’ve been recovering from a broken ankle for two months, so I’ll be incoherent, but come for my amazing co-presenters! #AAS2026 #Sinology🀄️📚

It also remains the case that the Trump NEH will not fund work that 'promotes' "gender ideology," "discriminatory equity ideology," "support for diversity, equity, and inclusion," "diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility," or "environmental justice initiatives or activities"

Tom Mazanec@tommazanec.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome. www.neh.gov/grants/resea... #Sinology 🀄️📚

Fun update on National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships: they have to focus on "American history and culture and Western civilization." Sinologists et al. are no longer welcome. www.neh.gov/grants/resea... #Sinology 🀄️📚

Issue 146.1 of the Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia (JASPA, formerly JAOS) has been published and can be found online at lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/jaos. Here is the content of the East Asia section. 1/

Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

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Director of Scholarly Programs and Education (Senior Leadership Role) at the Elling Eide Center (ellingoeide.org). Ph.D. in Chinese Studies and proficiency in Classical Chinese required. (www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/...).

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Research We support research of premodern Asian Studies. Each year, we invite scholars from around the world to conduct research in our library, collaborate ...

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An 8-vol translation of Dōgen's Shōbōgenzō 正法眼藏 (13th cent.) has been published & is available on Jstor. A milestone in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Translators include Carl Bielefeldt, William M. Bodiford, T. Griffith Foulk, and the late Stanley Weinstein. www.jstor.org/stable/jj.13...

Hot off the presses--and yes, this *is* open access! For those of you who want to know more about #milk and #medicine and #Chinesefood #TCM www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There are bunch of different #scholarships/#fellowships going in Cambridge at the Needham Research Institute and its East Asian History of Science library #historyofscience #科技史 Here are details: www.nri.cam.ac.uk/opportunitie...

My new piece on the history of the chickpea in premodern China just came out. Wishing you a health near year full of good food! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I recently did an interview with the New Books Network about my book, Poet-Monks. I can't stand to hear my own voice, so I won't listen to it, but in case you wanted to, here it is: newbooksnetwork.com/poet-monks. @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social

The latest issue of JAOS has been published, #145.4 (2025). This will be the last one under the old name. Starting next year, the journal will appear under its new name, JASPA: Journal of the American Society for Premodern Asia. lockwoodonlinejournals.com/index.php/ja... @aspa1842.bsky.social 1/

JAOS

The Journal of the American Oriental Society (ISSN 0003-0279) is published quarterly by the American Oriental Society.

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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

Cornell University Press is having a sale of 44% off. If you wanted to get a physical copy of my book, Poet-Monks, you can do so for $27 (paperback) including shipping. Just use the code 09WINTER. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years. #Sinology🀄️📚 read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article... 1/3

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.