🎉👍 Big congrats to David Tobin, Tim Grose and Emily Upson on their ACLS China Studies Collaborative Research Grant, "Un-Settling Xinjiang: Archiving, Digitizing and Curating Knowledge of Settler Colonial Violence in China and Beyond." www.acls.org/recent-fello...

Guys, I'm exhausted.

Best thing I've seen all week.

Made a lasagna (pasta included) from scratch. Garfield would be proud.

Bai Chongxi meets with an African delegate in Taipei for the Asian Peoples' Anti-Communist League Conference.

I'm sure people in OK are devastated. What a chump. www.koco.com/article/ryan...

I bet there is at least one H1B holder in every department in every college at my university. As an immigrant who is now a dual Canadian and American citizen, I can't imagine the needless stress and anxiety these faculty members are facing right now.

Enjoying the ☀️☀️☀️☀️

Arkansas, in a nutshell. Also, made a pawpaw cheesecake last year with foraged pawpaws and it was 🔥🔥🔥!!!

When I was ten, my dad gave me a tree in a park for my birthday. The tree is now 36 years old and provides shade for the community at Three Valleys Park in North York. 🇨🇦🌳💚💚

I'm moderating an Honors College discussion about "Nuclear" next week. Come join me, a political scientist, a geographer and a physicist! news.uark.edu/articles/798...

Well, today was a doozy. It might have been a "hoax," but I was escorted out of my office by fully-armed tactical police with my hands above my head after being on lockdown for 90+ minutes. arkansasadvocate.com/2025/08/25/p...

Will there ever come a day when I don't eat my lunch by 10:00 am when I am working at the office?

Starting year 11 tomorrow at the University of Arkansas. 🤓📚 Teaching the International Studies Methods seminar this semester and trying to finish up my second book project. 👩‍🏫 👩‍🏫

@ncuscr.bsky.social is delighted to announce the twenty fellows who make up the ninth cohort of our Public Intellectuals Program. Learn more about the newest #PIPFellows: www.ncuscr.org/twenty-leadi...

Took my family to DC and saw a motorcycle backfire. Reported it to the cops as gunshots.

Took a little trip to St. Louis and Hermann MO. Great sights. HUGE portions. 👍

Sometimes, I get so deep in a project I forget that other people don't know what I am talking about but it just seems like very quotidian info. Like, what do you mean you DIDN'T KNOW that Li Zongren didn't think Bai Chongxi was old enough to lead the Northern Expedition? What planet are you from?

The National Humanities Center welcomes fellowship applications from scholars engaged in the study of China in the Ming dynasty or of regions and periods connected to the Ming dynasty. Applications are due October 2, 2025. #AsianStudies cc: @asianstudies.org

Apparently my high school BFF's pre-teens think 18-year old me looks like Harry Potter... 😂🥴

Someone just tried to tell me that writing three journal articles was about as hard as writing a book and I almost punched them in the face on reflex.

I got my AAS merch so now @mauracunningham.bsky.social and I can match! 🤓🤗

程思远 "我所知道的白崇禧" (1985-1986 series published in 学术论坛 by one of Bai's friends and aids). I'm DEEP in it folks....

I love when authors pretend to write books that are accessible to undergrads and then name drop Derrida and Lacan in the first two pages.

One of our neighbors chickens escaped. She’s on tour.

A youngling just asked me how I got the email address "kellyahammond at gmail dot com" and I told them I was around when gmail was invented.

Got a new bed for the dog which was promptly claimed by the cat. It’s her bed now. Dog can suck it.

It's amazing how much writing I can get done when work doesn't get in the way. At almost 3000 words already this week and aiming (pretty realistically) for 20,000 in July. This book about Bai Chongxi isn't going to write itself!

Xi is going to show Trump how it's done: www.scmp.com/news/china/m...

Part of the Hajj Delegation from the PRC leaves Beijing in 1955.

Internet deep dive reveals that Zhou Enlai (allegedly) had Muslim ancestors (from the Yuan Dynasty). read01.com/zh-tw/7QPBa....

One year since I drove to Louisiana to pickup this mini firecracker 🎇🧨. She’s our BRAT-wurst. 🥰🌭😘

Need a summer read? I reviewed Stephen Platt's new book "The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II." It has intrigue, politics, big characters & great storytelling--everything you need in a summer read! lareviewofbooks.org/article/gras...

KU Leuven has just advertised two positions in East Asian Studies. The first is an assistant professorship in modern Chinese thought. www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... The second is an assistant professorship in East Asian art and popular culture (Focus Korea) www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

"Carlson was a complicated man, and in many ways Platt's new book is, however complicated, a redemption story." @kellyahammond.bsky.social reviews two new books about China, the Marines, and grassroots diplomacy in WWII, "The Raider" and "Uneasy Allies." lareviewofbooks.org/article/gras...

I wrote a review of Stephan Platt's new book “The Raider: The Untold Story of a Renegade Marine and the Birth of U.S. Special Forces in World War II" for the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/gras...

Lively and thoughtful review just up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social by @kellyahammond.bsky.social on The Raider, gripping new trade book on the complex life of an American soldier by @stephenplatt.bsky.social & an edited collection on US-China relations 1937-1949 lareviewofbooks.org/article/gras...

Both of Ed Pulford's books in conversation in this great review essay in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/an-a...

Kongxia repping hard in Tainan.

Bai Chongxi’s grave. Went for a visit this morning.

My latest, on how Thailand got a big tourist bump from a wildly popular portrayal of it on screen—I mean, of course, when a Chinese film comedy that set box office records for domestic ticket sales came out…cc @justinchan.bsky.social @emilynussbaum.bsky.social

Had to get a Snoopy Donut. 🇹🇼🍩

Guess where I am? 🤓🤗

Dino is stoked to be chosen as the new pope. His Latin is amazing.

My life this semester in a nutshell:

Phone call today at the office from a self-proclaimed "helicopter dad." 🫣🤨

Fuzai!!! youtu.be/dlTKPygWOxs

Just received this today. Excited to dive in!

Canada, you're next! 🇨🇦

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