Ying Zhang
@yingaa.bsky.social
Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰 Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan) Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
We are so happy to have won an Erasmus +ICM grant on a topic related to teaching gender history! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Six Erasmus+ ICM grants awarded for international cooperation
Six Leiden University members of staff recently received the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant for exchange projects with non-European partner universities. The total award of around 357,00...
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Thanks to Dorry and Tobias for their meticulous editorial work and deep intellectual engagement in the process! So proud to be part of this volume! Open access!
Tobias Wille@tobiaswille.bsky.social · 9mo agoI’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
A wonderful position at the University of Leuven, application deadline 9/15. #ChineseStudies #Sinology academicpositions.nl/ad/ku-leuven...
Tenure track professor in Chinese Studies (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven) - Academic Positions
The East Asian and Arabic Studies Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in Chinese Studies....
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OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora. global.oup.com/academic/con...
Really wonderful effort by @postmedieval.bsky.social editorial team. We had the first meeting today and it was productive! Sometimes we forget how important it is to support first-time authors. But we have all been there!
postmedieval@postmedieval.bsky.social · last yr./postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English. 👇 find all the details here 👇 sites.google.com/view/postmed...
We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)." Please send us your abstracts!
Congratulations to the editors of - and contributors to - Thinking Women and Art in the Long 18th Century: Strategic Reinterpretations Edited by Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann & Melissa Hyde www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social 2025
This week! On Wed, April 23 (7pm EST), Professor Stacy Fahrenthold joins Titas Chakraborty and Justin Jackson for a discussion of their new books with the @lawcha.bsky.social virtual series. Everyone is welcome and you can register at bit.ly/LAWCHAAprilBT
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Geadopteerd uit China, terug als journalist: ‘Ik wil de stereotypering doorbreken’
Haar hele leven wilde de geadopteerde Cindy Huijgen terug naar haar geboorteland China. Inmiddels is de alumnus Chinastudies en Journalistiek en Nieuwe Media er correspondent.
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Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...
Maintaining the Faith in Global Decolonization
Historians of decolonization tend to present the moment of independence as the culmination of nationalist struggles, and the achievement of political sover
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Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt has been Shortlisted for the Architectural History Book Award! Learn more about the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco....
Happy publication day to the first Japanese translation of The Second Sex! Curious how Beauvoir’s “most famous line”—“One is not born, but becomes, [a] woman”—was rendered into Japanese in 1953? See my latest website update: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/91a8...
🔸 In-person lecture about “Japanese Colonial Finance and Early Chinese Stock Exchanges” by Dr Bryna Goodman, (History Dept. at University of Oregon) ⏰ April 10 | 11:15 ~ 12:15 📍 Witte Singel 27A, Room 0.28, Leiden, NL 🌐 tinyurl.com/98v7des2 @unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social
Such an original and fascinating research on Japanese colonial stock exchanges in China presented by Bryna Goodman at @iias.bsky.social today. Also fascinating to look at this history in this particular historical moment.
Coming up! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Why not attend, registration closes soon!🥂
Programme
See below for the full programme. Abstracts will be available after 7 April.
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Hier verheug ik mij op! Op 30 april organiseert studententijdschrift Leidschrift.nl een symposium www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/... over de rol van de universiteit in de maatschappij, vroeger en nu, en ik mag meedoen. Iedereen is welkom. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
Leidschrift symposium
In het kader van het 450-jarig bestaan van Universiteit Leiden organiseert Leidschrift op 30 april een symposium met als thema: 'Wereldverbeteraars of zolderkamergeleerden? De rol van de universiteit ...
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100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono... #openaccess @uofmpress.bsky.social
100 Years of Archaeology at the University of Michigan: Essays on the Past, Present, and Future of the Discipline
<P> The University of Michigan has been at the forefront of archaeological research for more than 100 years, since 1922, when the Museum of Anthropology (now the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology)...
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Annales English Version 📕 🏴☠️ 'Fighting #Pirates” as a Paradigm. Conflict, Competition, and #Criminalization in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Lübeck and the Northern European Trade' by Philipp Höhn 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2022.22
An insightful, informative and intellectually vigorous book review of my dear friend Paul Reitter’s new translation of Capital! Can’t wait to read it.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last yr.‘Among scholars of “Capital” the question of what Marx meant is burdened with added importance: a proper translation of “Capital” can tell us how capital works.’ Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx’s ‘Bible of the working class’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Is the #Sinology feed still a thing or are we all too distracted? Anyway, if you're free at lunchtime on Wednesday April 9 (east coast suppertime, European midnight snack), please join us for a conversation on medieval Chinese Buddhist images and their (im)materiality. 🀄📚
Scholarly Dialogue: Transparency and Projection in Medieval Buddhist Sculpture – Center for Chinese Studies
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Join us for the launch of Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence, co-edited by @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, Samuel Ritholtz, and Andrew Delatolla (@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social). This event is open to all. 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4bAnPYI #LSEEvents #AcademicSky #PoliSky
The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15.
Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for Undergraduate Articles – AHA
The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student.
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History graduate students! The AHA is seeking three student columnists to write a pair of columns for #AHAPerspectives this summer. Along with publishing your two articles, columnists receive an honorarium and a one-year AHA membership. We hope you apply! 🗃️
Want to Write for the AHA? – AHA
Submit your application by Monday, April 21!
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70 North American archives / library special collections have now made the move to Bluesky - from medieval manuscripts to zines Help them build up their communities here and reconnect - you'll get excellent archive content in return! go.bsky.app/MN9ZZ3M
Today is publication day! Check out our new issue with four articles, a conversation on race, an exhibition review, and many book reviews #EarlyModern www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr...
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 19, No 2
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In the newly released CHINESE CHARACTERS ACROSS ASIA, @zevhandel.bsky.social tells a fascinating story of writing across cultures and time. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
The New Testament in Manchu In 2012, Mark T. Riley, professor emeritus of Latin at California State University, Sacramento, donated a curious volume to the Ricci Institute, then located at the University of San Francisco. Read more about this book at web.bc.edu/ricci/
Charlie Yi Zhang, author of "Dreadful Desires," stopped by the Duke University Press booth at @asianstudies.org Learn more about the book: www.dukeupress.edu/dreadful-des... and use coupon code AAS25 for 30% off!
