Kelly Hammond
@kellyahammond.bsky.social
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Accidental military historian
I just cobbled together funding to support the OA publication of my book about Bai Chongxi. I asked one of the Distinguished Profs in my department who has a ~ridiculous~ research budget to chip in, and he threw $5K my way. Always ask, people. Always ask.
about 12 hours ago
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Whenever I'm in the depths of writing, I spend most of the day thinking that everything I'm writing is total shit. Then, when I reread it the next day, I'm generally like "Hmmm..this isn't all terrible." What's that about?
about 17 hours ago
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My friend Esther just published this book about her grandfather Hu Zongnan. She just sent me a copy because there are all these awesome photos she’s colorized of Bai and Hu together. 🤓🥰 coffee table book for super nerds!
3 days ago
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Hanging with the poochies in Bella Vista for a few days while the house gets painted.
8 days ago
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A weekly conversation I have with my husband:
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20 days ago
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Foreign Policy
21 days ago
Ma Xingrui, a former high-flying technocrat and Xinjiang party secretary, is officially under investigation for corruption charges. That makes him the third member of the Politburo to fall amid Xi's latest purge.
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Another Chinese Politburo Member Falls
Ma Xingrui is the latest official ensnared by anti-corruption purges.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/07/china-xi-ccp-purge-ma-xingrui-corruption-investigation/
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China Law Translate / Jeremy Daum
21 days ago
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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥
28 days ago
“Oh my god… It’s glorious… they should’ve sent a poet…” - Deng Xiaoping
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Happy 11th Birthday Dino!!!
29 days ago
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You need side eye? I got side eye.
29 days ago
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The only problem with this description is that the corgi self-appointed himself boss cause he is a bossy AF corgi and he’s never had anyone tell him what to do in his life:
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about 1 month ago
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Chen Lifu ran a chicken farm during his sojourn in America from the early 1950s until 1968, when he returned to Taiwan. Allegedly the chicken farm burned down and many chickens perished in the blaze.
about 1 month ago
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Remember the good ol' days when you didn't need to download an app to run a new appliance?
about 1 month ago
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Annie likes Sundays.
about 1 month ago
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Visiting the motherland. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
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Manisha Sinha
about 1 month ago
Historian here seen in the bad place “Admiral Yamamoto, seen here realizing he’d totally forgot to tell Trump he was going to attack Pearl Harbor.”
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I've been teaching college for almost twelve years now. Out of the 30-or-so handwritten thank you notes I've received, not one has been from a man.
about 1 month ago
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Bye Vancouver. It’s been a hoot! 🦉
#AAS2026
about 1 month ago
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Two grad students referred to me as a senior scholar yesterday. Kill me now.
about 2 months ago
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why is China set to approve a new law promoting 'ethnic unity'?
A law that could threaten the rights of minority groups is a sign of the direction Xi is taking China.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6271gxpdkzo
about 2 months ago
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Finally! Some good news!!
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...
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Alexander Brothers Found Guilty of All Counts in Sex Trafficking Trial
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/nyregion/verdict-alexander-brothers-sex-trafficking.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R1A.HXC-.8JbRuCqWhO5i&smid=url-share
about 2 months ago
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Wait?! What??! This is THE VET!!?! 💉👨⚕️🩺
about 2 months ago
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In collaboration with the Department of Economics, we are hosting Indonesian economist Muhamad Chatib Basri, former Minister of Finance for Indonesia and current visiting scholar at Harvard Center for International Development:
news.uark.edu/articles/808...
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Upcoming Lecture: 'Why Development Becomes Harder: The Political Economy of the Possible'
International and Global Studies and the Department of Economics will host Muhamad Chatib Basri for a lecture on economic conditions and how they define what is politically feasible in contemporary de...
https://news.uark.edu/articles/80848/upcoming-lecture-why-development-becomes-harder-the-political-economy-of-the-possible-
about 2 months ago
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I voted in the open primary in Arkansas. Only my second time voting as a a new American citizen.
about 2 months ago
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RIP Mong Dynasty.
fayettevilleflyer.com/2026/02/25/l...
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Longtime restaurant Mong Dynasty announces closure date, new restaurant in the works
A Chinese restaurant that has served Fayetteville for more than 35 years will close its doors this spring.
https://fayettevilleflyer.com/2026/02/25/longtime-restaurant-mong-dynasty-announces-closure-date-new-restaurant-in-the-works/
2 months ago
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Actually, yes. The IRS still hasn't processed my taxes from last year and they owe me $3500.
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2 months ago
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My very smart friend Jonas Nahm wrote a very good op-ed: “China Automates While America Hesitates” (gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...
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Opinion | America Has an Edge Over China. Why Won’t We Use It?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/china-america-manufacturing-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OlA.kQZL.2UOrestOSDRT&smid=nytcore-ios-share
2 months ago
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But will Einstein write my lectures and do all my grading? That would really free up my time.
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2 months ago
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LOVE it when students demand a meeting with me and then ghost 👻 me.
2 months ago
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Joseph Torigian
2 months ago
Big thanks to Kelly Hammond and
@ruslanyn.bsky.social
for hosting me for a talk on Party’s Interests at University of Arkansas!
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The best part about working from home is that you can eat nachos in your pajamas for lunch and you don’t have to make small talk with your colleagues.
3 months ago
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Have an Econ and International Studies student working on an undergrad thesis titled: "Infrastructures of Control: the PRC Party-state and the Diffusion of Surveillance Technology to the Global South." He's an incredible data miner and cruncher. Happy to share once he defends. 🤓
3 months ago
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Reading an anecdotal story about Chiang Kai-shek clearing a high-level military meeting with a loud and stinky fart. Sounds too familiar to giggle.
3 months ago
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I'm on campus. there is no one else on campus. it's a frozen ghost campus.
3 months ago
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A really favorable review of the edited volume that I contributed to last year called "The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives."
networks.h-net.org/group/review...
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Martinache on Buchanan and Lawlor, 'The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives' | H-Net
Buchanan, Andrew N.; Lawlor, Ruth, eds.. The Greater Second World War: Global Perspectives. : Cornell University Press, 2025. 408 pp. $58.95 (cloth), ISBN 9781501780653. Reviewed by Théa Martinache (J...
https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20137455/martinache-buchanan-and-lawlor-greater-second-world-war-global-perspectives
4 months ago
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Wrote close to 7000 words this week about Bai Chongxi's Northern Expedition. Time for a break.
4 months ago
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Grinch toes.
4 months ago
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Maybe now Andy Reid will be available to coach the Arkansas Razorbacks to victory.
5 months ago
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A little light reading for the break….
5 months ago
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It's my last day of teaching until August 2026 and I feel frreeeeeeeeeee!!! FREEE! (I have a fellowship in the Spring 2026 to finish my book about Bai Chongxi.)
5 months ago
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Dino and his cousin Bernie. A bromance for the ages. Love at first sight.
5 months ago
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"Mean Spirit" by Linda Hogan is *the best* novel I've read this year. (I'm approaching 50 novels so far this year.) Highly recommend.
5 months ago
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Gluten free cranberry custard tart (hazelnut and rice flour crust). Get the elastic waist pants prepared, friends.
5 months ago
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Paul Cohen
5 months ago
TIRED: entrusting university academic integrity offices with investigating alleged student use of ChatGPT WIRED: bringing the Inquisition in
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Oh! This looks great--just got my library to order. 🤓📚
uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/mother...
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Mothers Against War: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Cold War Japan
Mothers Against War examines the shifting relationships among motherhood, peace activism, and women’s rights in the decades following Japan’s defeat in 1945. With a focus on the concept of bosei, g…
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/mothers-against-war-gender-motherhood-and-peace-activism-in-cold-war-japan/
5 months ago
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Taking in Fall. Happy doggos.
5 months ago
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I have an adult student from Japan who is completing an undergrad in English--kudos to him. We were chatting yesterday and he was telling me about how much free time he has and how all the 20 year olds who complain about being "so busy" all the time have no idea what's coming for them--i.e. life.
5 months ago
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I'm "you're gonna need progressive lenses" years old... 😱
5 months ago
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We had a guest cancel their visit to campus because of flight chaos. It’s like a bonus day! I wrote four reference letters for students heading off into the world and finished reviewing a book ms for a press. 📋✅
6 months ago
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Just two besties snuggling up on a cold day.
6 months ago
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