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Paperback for under $30 - a bargain! 😏 www.bloomsbury.com/us/analysing...

Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️ www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...

The paperback of my book on a fascinating USA-funded Cold War exhibition of Italian art and design is on sale for the American holiday. www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Ame...

My most recent book is A HISTORY OF THE THEATRE COSTUME BUSINESS, currently on sale from the publisher.

My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press. It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.

New academic drinking game: Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.

A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Uhhh I didn’t publish a book but I did publish my first research article. It took 2 years and it might as well be a book to me!

Given the opportunity for a second edition, I would vastly broaden the examples, downplaying those aligning with my own collecting tendencies. But I'm happy with a lot of the book! It's extremely cheerful! I think Chatwin still has signed & numbered copies available!

A short tale about a club of women book collectors on New York who made space for themselves when they were not allowed in men's spaces. Featuring Belle da Costa Greene (Morgan Library), Mildred Bliss (Dumbarton Oaks), Rachel Hunt(carnegie mellon) and more. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you: NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex... MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-... Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼

If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters: doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...

The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk . reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...

Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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

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Two brilliant new books from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social by two brilliant colleagues! 🎉 @drrwel.bsky.social's Versailles Mirrored: The Power of Luxury, Louis XIV to Donald Trump @luiseguest.bsky.social's Invisible Ink: Feminism and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Art links below with more info 👇🏼

My latest review for the @sydmorningherald.bsky.social! A reflection on my experience of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's mesmerising new cinematic installation for the Museum of Contemporary Art, "A Conversation with the Sun (Afterimage)", on display now until 15 February 2026 👇🏼

Welcome to Bluesky @phrc-dmu.bsky.social! Hard recommend for 📷📸🗃️ folks - with a great autumn line-up of free, online research seminars this autumn. The link has information on how to book, as well as how to get in touch to offer a talk in future editions.

So excited to finally have hold of the book!

Happy 15th anniversary to the love of MY life, too, @blairwilliams26.bsky.social 🥰 The promotion is definitely a bonus - perfect timing! 😊

Really excited to meet and work with our incoming Sir William Dobell Chair and Fellows in Art History at the ANU for 2026! 🎉 An incredible group of scholars with some fascinating and timely research planned for their stay #academicsky #arthistory #art

An excerpt from feedback offered by #Reviewer2 on the latest article draft: "The writing is very polished, but if anything, perhaps too polished in parts, where the lyrical risks eclipsing the historical or scholarly" So, historical/scholarly writing can't be lyrical and polished? 🙃 #academicsky

Very cool books with very cool covers bombardment because we all need a little beauty and brilliance, surely

The "Vienna" model or sample book, c. 1410-20. An aid for workshops and travelling artists so that they had a stock of motifs & shapes. Silverpoint drawing on paper, maple wood, leather. Dimensions: 9.5 cm × 9 cm. A small thing. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

The 13-storey Liuhe Pagoda (Six Harmonies Pagoda) at dusk, c.1925, Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, by Charles H Kragh. located at the foot of Yuelun Hill, facing the Qiantang River, originally constructed in 970, but rebuilt a few times since. Interestingly a pagoda that also served as a lighthouse.

Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics

A portfolio or envelope case made of birchbark and dyed porcupine quills by a talented Mi’kmaw artist around c.1910 and featuring the traditional 8-pointed star— I love this object. Relatedly, it‘s Mi’kmaq Treaty Day!

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.

Sometimes, homely objects from the past are far more evocative than possessions of the powerful rich ~ here, from Egypt 1,400 years ago, this design on a child’s linen tunic, woven with pink, blue & green ducks, flower petals & central animal face collections.mfa.org/objects/70038

The NLA has digitized heaps of PNG parliamentary debates, including from the colonial legislative council (1951-63) and house of assembly (64-75). Keyword searchable too. www.library.gov.au/news-media/p...

Always like to see an accessible archive, but maintaining it isn't free. How long until a "purely financial decision" to shutter the digital archive too?

Really looking forward to contributing next Thursday to the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre's Global Encounters Network Seminar Series - online and open to all! 📌 Out of the Melting Pot, into the Garden? Aboriginal-Chinese-Australian Artistic Encounters 🕰️ Thursday 18 September, 6-7pm AEST

You can read about our super fun exhibition 'Kerameikos' at Sydney Uni - Chau Chak Wing Museum in the latest Journal of Australian Ceramics. Exhibition extended until 2 Feb 2026! 🏺🏛️📜 search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3...

Best surprise after a long trip back: my article got picked for journal cover!🥳 “Three centuries of Chinese printing in the Netherlands”, in Yearbook for Dutch Book History, 32/2025

“Literary journals have never been a commercial enterprise, they have been a cultural enterprise ... To talk about the ‘problem’ of Meanjin as being a commercial one is to disavow the purpose of a university.” @sophtree.bsky.social

A sinuous floral border in the Kelmscott Chaucer, printed in William Morris’s workshop in 1896. One of 13 copies printed on vellum. Given to @theulspeccoll.bsky.social in 1916 by John Charrington (1856-1939), Honorary Keeper of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum. CUL Sel.1.16.

One of my favorite digital collections is that of the Museum of Royal Worcester. You can explore their ceramics collection and their archive, which holds treasures like these pages from a 1930s pattern book with heavenly designs for Art Deco style floral china: www.museumofroyalworcester.org

It’s ludicrous and insulting to suggest that the richest university in Australia can’t afford the two part-time wages to run Meanjin. Also: did they even try to save it? Donation drive? Philanthropic efforts? Offering it to another institution? No. The university council shut it down intentionally.

All right, putting it out into the world… if anyone back in Australia has hot tips on a job for a museum studies professor who loves teaching and public programs and has leadership and strategic thinking skills, I’d love to hear them. Holding on here, but longing to be back in Oz.

"Meanjin isn't just a magazine, but an important cultural institution [that] provoked national conversation for the best part of a century ... ensuring Australia could speak to itself – critically, insistently, sometimes uncomfortably" Another cultural institution on the managerial chopping block 🤬

"The Lion of St Mark is Chinese, and he walked the Silk Road." Cool bit of research here on an iconic Venetian symbol: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...