The latest issue of #Střed features four articles addressing #WWI and post-World War I food scarcity, drawing from research presented at a conference supported by the Czech-Slovene grant Nourishing Victory. The articles are accessible in OA. asjournals.lib.cas.cz/Stred/actual?l…

Based on workshops organized by Center on Digital Culture and Society, our CDCS team edited a special issue on Thirty Years of the Internet in China for Communication and the Public . 5 of the 23 articles are now online, all open access, others to follow soon. Check them out here: journals.sagepub.com/home/ctp Annenberg School

Seoul, July 28, 1934. You go to work at Government-General of Chōsen Library. You are police, a censor officer to be precise. Your job: to enforce the publication law. Your office has been buzzing since last week. Indeed, you don't see something like this on newspaper everyday.

Late to this party I know but wow easily one of the most thought-provoking and important articles written about ethnography, knowledge-production, academia. Sheer brilliance and sharp insights by Nithila Kanagasabai it’s a total #mustread tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

I am pleased to share the launch of the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)'s Taiwan Policy Database (TPD) - a one-of-a-kind website housing one of the largest English language resources of original source documents, agreements, laws and exchanges on Taiwan policy from the perspective of China, Taiwan

Deadline extended! [CFP] Midwest Taiwan Studies Graduate Workshop at ⁦IU Bloomington⁩ Submit your proposal by Aug 10🫵 #Taiwan #Taiwanstudies ⁦EASC at IU⁩⁦North American Taiwan Studies Association - NATSA⁩ search.app/dBFCchFsr61Ss3…

“Marco Polo and the Silk Roads” — Autumn School for Postgraduate Students and Early Career Researchers Location: Venice Dates: 30 Sept– 4 Oct 2024. Apply by 2 Sept 2024 warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapv…

Walz should be commended for spending time in China, not criticized. We need way, way more people going to China to study, to research, to do business, and just to slack around. You want to understand a place, especially one that is a serious rival, you have to see it firsthand.

We're hosting a series of workshops on Taiwan history at Princeton (2025), UW (2026), and UC Berkeley (2027). See below for the Princeton workshop CFP. Let me know if you have any questions.

For those interested, here's the working bibliography I have, based on suggestions gathered here and on fb.

⁦Controlling the past to control the present: Amy Hawkins⁩ on why the Communist Party is trying to grab documents housed ⁦Stanford University⁩ ⁦Hoover Institution⁩, with quotes by ⁦Joseph Torigian Frank Dikötter and⁩ yours truly. theguardian.com/world/article/…

Great great news: JF Books, a famous bookstore shut in Shanghai in 2017, is going to open soon in Washington DC’s DuPont Circle, selling Chinese language books.📚

📢Exciting news! Our Interdisciplinary Research Seminar and Chinese Business History Webinar Series lineup for this fall semester is now available. Follow us on social media or sign up for our email list to get all the details: 🔗hkihss.hku.hk/en/news_and_ev… #webinarseries

New on advance access: "Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879" by Adam Mestyan (Duke History) doi.org/10.1093/pastj/…

Dr. Benjamin Elman donated his academic materials to the Archives, IHP, including research notes, manuscripts, correspondences, lecture drafts, syllabi, and articles and gifts from other scholars. Collation should conclude soon, with digitization expected to be completed in 2025.

Join us in Toronto in July 2025 for the next iteration of Legal Histories of Empires! The conference is a dynamic, welcoming space for legal historians to explore trans-imperial exchanges, legal transplantation, illegalities, &c. Deadline 13 September. lhbe.org/legal-historie…

Applications are invited for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Sciences Po, starting on 1 September 2025, in connection with the research programme on economic & environmental history. histecon.fr/en/fellowships…

Next Week at MIT Asia in Dialogue Series! A lecture by Professor Rachel Leow, University of Cambridge "The Names of Water: China's Nanyang Project and other Vernacular Imaginaries of the Southern Seas" Tuesday, September 10, 2024- 5:00pm Rm E51-275

Great news: Aziz Isa Elkun's remarkable collection of 20th-century #Uyghur materials will now be housed at Princeton University, thanks to hard work of librarians Joshua Seufert, Martin Heijdra & others. I'm glad to have played a small part in setting this in motion. library.princeton.edu/about/library-…