Congrats to Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, whose book Required Reading won the @modernlanguage.bsky.social's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies! Explore her groundbreaking look at how ordinary writing shaped the way colonial subjects understood their place in empire: hubs.ly/Q03Yb5cj0

Ad for hunting gear/guns that ran in the Japanese settlers' newspaper 京城日報 in colonized Korea (1925). Many elite male settlers emulated the sporting practice of White hunters (complete with dogs), while Korean access to firearms remained strictly limited.

JOB> Bicentenary Research Fellowships in Humanities, University of Manchester www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

There's a bunch of high-quality stuff about #Chinese #printmaking and #graphics on the Youtube channel of the Muban Educational Trust, quite the resource: www.youtube.com/@mubaneducat...

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

In the nineteenth century, British officials became obsessed with collecting and codifying 'secret languages' across northern India. In our latest article, Vipin Krishna explores how linguistics became a tool for classification, surveillance, and control.

【★メルマガ号外配信しました】 文学通信のメルマガ［号外］ 12/2（火曜）19時開催！ これからの人文書翻訳の話をしよう！ bungaku-report.com/blog/2025/11...

In 1657, Jin Shengtan 金聖嘆 broke off from his commentary on 'The Romance of the Western Chamber' to list "33 Nice Things" 不亦快哉三十三則. It's one of the most likable things I know of in any language. I translated it to cheer myself up a while ago, if anyone could use it. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

John K. Fairbank’s flashcards. #sinology

#Unicode now includes new Hanzi characters suggested by Taiwan's education ministry, but this doesn't cover all possible characters. "The infamous #tofu characters (those little boxes that appear when fonts don't support a character) are frustratingly common for users of Taiwan's diverse languages."

Sandbag protection of artworks in Venice in 1916, in anticipation of bombing.

So glad to share with you the inaugural special issue of Feminist Translation Studies 'Translating with the Earth: Gender, Feminism and Eco-Translation' www.tandfonline.com/toc/rftr20/2/1 @olgacastro80.bsky.social @ftnetwork.bsky.social @womenintranslation.bsky.social @drpaulinehenry.bsky.social

‘Every language grows by absorbing and layering the absorbed with its own genius. The act of translation has long been a lubricant for this form of exchange.’  Priyamvada Ramkumar on translating Tamil and the evolution and expansion of languages. granta.com/tamil/

Publishing across the UK and Europe in 2026, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King ‘A delightfully slippery novel about how power shapes relationships’ New York Times www.andotherstories.org/taiwan-trave...

In this essay, Alex Taek-Gwang Lee argues that China no longer mirrors Western modernity but transforms it from within, forcing us to rethink the very categories through which we understand capitalism, socialism, and the modern world, and to confront the limits of the West's theoretical imagination.

In this essay, Ling Tang examines gender-critical currents in Chinese feminist scholarship: one revives socialist legacies to unsettle Western feminist paradigms, the other rejects both socialist and liberal frames in favour of grounded documentation within China’s historical and cultural contexts.

A symposium on paper! They say: "We also want to hear about your research into or with paper – whether you print on, make or create with paper, we want to hear from you." Sounds wonderful. cfpr.uwe.ac.uk/announcing-a...

In case you haven’t seen it, the CFP is out for Translation Networks in the Decolonising World, 1950s–1970s! The conference will take place at King’s College, University of Cambridge on 24–25 April 2026. The deadline for abstracts is 15 October 2025.

The last surviving generation born during Japan’s colonisation of Taiwan - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/japan-colonisation-taiwan-war-last-surviving-generation-5329901

A video of the recent MJHA "Research Exchange Seminar" discussion of the book 『帝国大学の朝鮮人：大韓民国エリートの起源』("Koreans in the Imperial University: The Origin of South Korean Elites") is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel! youtu.be/SdJ_FkionpE

📣 Don't miss Cheung Yee and His 1960s Hong Kong Contemporaries, closing 7 September. This free exhibition showcases newly-acquired works by the Hong Kong artist Cheung Yee (1936–2019). It is the first substantial display of his work outside Hong Kong, including sculpture and works on paper.

Open shelves, glass floors and ceilings, transparent boxes, shrouded displays, a concrete facade. The V&A East Storehouse opened in May with the goal of giving the public 'direct access' to the museum and its objects. Az Crawford contemplates this 'transparency':

"If we greedily demand more, and tastier, food, the supply for the 'industrial warriors' who must work to their utmost will be reduced by that much, and transport capacity will also be required for it. Let us think of it this way: we are eating precious airplanes at each of our three daily meals."

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

With Ting Guo, I’ve co‑authored a new article titled “The ‘Ueno Chizuko Phenomenon’: Translating Feminist Modernity Across East Asia” in the “Translation Studies as Methods” special issue uof Chinese Literature and Thought Today (Vol. 56, Nos. 1–2). See www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

Screening celebrating Qiu Miao-jin at the Barbican on August 16th www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.

And we're looking for Translated Literature from Asia and Oceania:

Attn: translators! Two Lines Press has two open calls for submission right now, both due July 6th!

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

We are having another exciting book talk on colonial Korea coming up!! Mark your calendar! mjha.org/event-6183687

It's been such a privilege to serve on the jury for the inaugural Baifang Schell Book Prize @asiasociety.org @chinabksreview.bsky.social, and to engage in a conversation with Lin King, who won the Award for Translated Literature with author Yang Shuangzi for Taiwan Travelogue, at the prize ceremony.

Honoured to be one of the judges for this year's Weidenfeld Prize, and to recognise Jeffrey Zuckerman's beautiful translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears – a novel about a young woman weighing up whether to get a cochlear implant: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/jell... 🪼🩵

On advance access: "A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis" by Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

SEEKING SUMMER ARCHIVAL INTERN We are looking for an assistant to archive and document the Paradise Systems Chinese comics library. Must be comfortable reading Chinese comics (simplified and traditional) and writing about them in English. A background in translation is a plus.

Slowly getting ready to announce the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize @oxfordcct.bsky.social. Minna Jeffrey, Thom Murphy, @acantrill.bsky.social, and I had our work cut out for us!

This looks great - "New Theories on Translation: Proximity and Distance between Japanese and Chinese Characters and Words"

Must-read. "For Zheng, and for me, the function of poetry, its innate raison d’être, is to mourn. And in mourning, to point a finger. Look! the poet cries, Look! Look at everything that’s been lost, that we are in the process of losing, that we are throwing away out of ignorance and fear..."

Just 1 WEEK until we announce the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025! 🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L ⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm 📍St Anne's College

Oxford Translation Day celebrates literary translation with a vibrant range of workshops, readings, and talks, culminating in the award of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. This year, Oxford Translation Day takes place on 14 June. View the programme here:

In Paris on 17-18 June & interested in gender & China? Join us for the 4th edition of the China Academic Network on Gender conference. We'll delve into all things voice with a fabulous lineup of speakers, positive vibes (&morning croissants! 🥐) Free to attend w. registration change.hypotheses.org

Grid/Text(ile), Layered Print on Wove Paper

China’s economy is unsteady, its publishing industry facing hard times — yet interesting books continue to come out. Here are five of them, from psychotherapy to mountaineering. Our "What China's Reading" columnist Na Zhong shares her picks for uncertain times: chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/20/w...

Home air raid shelters manufactured by a construction firm in Tokyo, one of many businesses capitalizing on the air defense market place These cylindrical shelters had wooden interiors and came in both seated and tatami-style configurations, capable of accommodating approximately ten people

We have the inaugural winners of the Baifang Schell Books Prize! Nonfiction: AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE by Edward Wong Literature: TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/13/2...

How do you tell a history of a city hidden in plain sight? Fifty years since the first arrival of Vietnamese refugees to Hong Kong, Juliana Yat Shun Kei asks how to adequately locate Hong Kong's Vietnamese refugee camps.

'If you read the text in the ad, you're not reading his prose: you're reading mine, translating his recorded words from French,' O’Hara said. 'I've done my best to render his meaning, but that's all I've managed to do.'

Chinese characters vary across East Asia due to regional language evolution and reform. Although it is possible to have a single CJK font, letterforms need to align with regional preferences. This article aims to explain the regional variants. www.typotheque.com/articles/und...

CALL FOR PAPERS: We're seeking papers, position pieces, & practice-led contributions of 20 minutes max, celebrating the art, craft, praxis, and labour of translation — and the new perspectives and futures it makes possible. buff.ly/EsJxOmw