Spare a thought for your green-card holding and naturalized colleagues, many of whom are now doing risk-benefit calculations before speaking on anything that could be considered remotely political

Gardening’s not all roses. Today’s accomplishment? Cardboard #gardening #landscaping #sheetmulching #nolawns open.substack.com/pub/readingm...

I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem Resharing for all the wins and losses of this hour

Talk about timely! From two first rate legal historians:

Do you know who should be the next Translator in Residence at the U of Iowa? Tell them to apply!

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

nterview about my book on Sino-Korean relations in 1300s-1600s: Boundless Winds of Empire On New Books Network. With @Sarah Bramao-Ramos @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social #KoreanHistory #ChineseHistory newbooksnetwork.com/boundless-wi... Sixiang Wang, "Boundless Winds of Empire: Rhetoric and Ritu

Be my colleague at the Harvard-Yenching Library! We just opened our search for the next Librarian for #JapaneseStudies, who will become a core member of our small but mighty team. As with every job, you don't need to satisfy every qualification to apply. www.eastasianlib.org/newsite/harv...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡨᠠᡨᠠᠨ (tatan, from tatambi) 1. a camp, a stopping place, an encampment 2. territory of a tribe 3. lodging coron tatan: a yurt (木架窩舖) tatan i boo: residence, abode tatan i da: chief of a camp (夥長) tatan tobo: a simple lodging made of willow branches (帷幄) #Manchu #language #滿文

“First, to have none. Not to be tied.” -Virginia Woolf’s 1931 #NewYearsResolutions will do nicely (Diary Vol. 4: 1931-35, Mariner Books)

One of my current projects explores #non-Han #fiction & #poetry. On the former, I wrote an article for *World #Literature Today*. I've given talks on the broader project. I'm open to giving more. 🀄📚 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january...

Do you want to find the best #books on #Korea? Well, I don't have time to read everything, but I do have some recommendations. These are, mostly, academic books. I don't read many mass market books on Korea, and when I do, I'm often annoyed with their facile shallow misunderstandings.

Four Biggest Lies Told To You By Your Friends (meme shared by the Taiwan's National Palace Museum)

ISCLH 2024 Book Prize Winner(s) Announced! The winner is Professor Tristan Brown’s book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton University Press, 2023). Honorable mentions have been awarded to Professor Haiyan Lee and Professor Michael Ng.

In other news, my investigation for Al Jazeera reveals how foreign patients seeking plastic surgery in South Korea face risks from unlicensed brokers, misleading reviews, and confidentiality agreements that silence negative experiences. www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12...

ManchuOfTheDay ᡠᠰᡝᡵᡳ (useri, from use) n. pomegranate; cf. šilio useri cuse moo: a bamboo-like plant that forms red seed pods (闌天竹) useri šugi: 石榴酱 #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠰᡳᠯᡳᠨ (silin, from silimbi) topnotch, elite, crack troops (精銳) silin dacun: crack (troops), select, topnotch silin dacungga kūwaran: Light Division (健銳營) #Manchu #language #滿文

As winter solstice approaches, resharing a small poem of longing from a poet of the Chinese diaspora who spent the latter half of his life in Taiwan. He died there in December seven years ago, in 2017. Yu Guangzhong, "Nostalgia" - in his handwriting, alongside my translation #everynightapoem #余光中

R. Kent Guy's THREE IMPEACHMENTS is a rich and enticing probe into a key moment in late imperial Chinese history. Now available in print and #OpenAccess, made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Contra the usual gaudy Qing ceramics, here is the Kangxi Emperor’s favorite rouge glaze: 胭脂紅. Palace medical records noted that Kangxi (1654-1722) was cured of his depression (after his favorite son’s death) by red wine, brought to him by a Jesuit missionary. Hence the commemorative wine-red glaze.

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠰᡠᡴᡡ (sukū) 1. skin, hide, pelt, leather "wahan i bek šaijagan . . . loho juwe, silun sukū juwe afaha be belek doroi obume alibuha (Wakhan's beg Shah Jahan presented 2 swords and 2 lynx pelts as gifts)" 2. fruit peel #Manchu #language #滿文

Have been pointing a lot of people recently to Carter Eckert's biography of Park Chung-hee to help contextualize the current moment in SK politics, and learned this morning that he's just passed away. An incredibly generous person and brilliant scholar. May his memory be a blessing.

Seeing some takes that South Korea’s victory today is thanks to defections within the ruling party. Of course there is some truth to this—but it should not be the main lesson. Without the public pressure for accountability, would they have showed up + voted their conscience?

My new article looks at Chinese Hui, Uyghur, and Salar Muslims adapting to the dynamics of urban social life in the early years of Xi Jinping. Being Muslim doesn't guarantee social or spatial affinity over class, experience, labor, personal history differences... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TE97U...

There’s a stunning variety of third-person singular (3sg) pronouns (meaning 'she / he / it' or singular 'they') across Chinese languages and dialects. Here are a few of them: Mandarin: tā Cantonese: keoi5 Taiwan Hokkien and Shanghainese: i Southern Wu: gi, ji #langsky 🀄️📚 1/

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡥᡡᠵᡳᡵᡳ (hūjiri) adj. alkaline, alkali, soda, bittern hūjiri ba: an alkaline place "ilan uwase karun cohome hūjiri ba, aniyadari dasacibe urui šungkume tuhembi (Ilan Uwase karun is an especially alkaline place and constantly sinks despite annual upkeep) #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠮᠠᠰᡝ (mase) 1. pockmarks 2. a pockmarked person; cf. kerkeri mase usiha: walnut mase muyari: lychee #Manchu #language #滿文

Oh yeah, you can learn more about the book, or buy it, here: www.sup.org/books/middle...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠪᡠᠯᠵᠠᡴᡡ (bulcakū, from bulcambi) n. a person who dislikes and avoids work "ele bulcakū akdafi ojorakū ([They are] all slackers [and] aren't dependable)" #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡧᠠᡵᡳᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠮᠪᡳ (šaringgiyambi) 1. to clean, to scrape clean (an arrow-shaft) 2. to expiate, to atone, to wipe out (a wrong or shame) #Manchu #language #滿文

There are over a thousand items in the Harvard-Yenching library Manchukuo collection, not all of them limited to Japanese occupied Manchuria. A lot of them are online. For example, scans of some 80 maps in that collection are available online: hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explor... (archive tweet)

On Dec 3, 2024, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law. 600+ political scientists of South Korea condemned this in a joint statement, urging impeachment. **We ask political scientists worldwide to please read & sign in support**: bit.ly/3Bfxc2j

In January, Israeli historian Lee Mordechai released a 124 page report with 1,400 footnotes detailing evidence of Israel’s genocide, which he continues to update. How many of you heard about it? witnessing-the-gaza-war.com/wp-content/u...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠵᡳᠯᡤᠠᠨ (jilgan, from jilgambi) n. sound, noise, voice (聲) den jilgan i: in a loud voice jilgan mudan: regional accent sunja jilgan: the five notes of the Chinese pentatonic scale (五聲) #Manchu #language #滿文

Here's my latest article: "Wearing Many Hats: Chinese Muslim General Bai Chongxi and the Chinese Muslim Association during the War of Resistance." It's Open Access and free to read/download! brill.com/view/journal...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠪᡠᡨᡝᠨ (buten) 1. the foot of a mountain (山根) "juwe irgen alin i buten i bade jaka somime umbuha (two commoners buried something away at the foot of a mountain)" 2. the hem of a garment (衣邊) 3. boundary, horizon; cf. abkai buten abkai buten: the horizon (天涯) #Manchu #language #滿文

#ManchuOfTheDay ᡥᡝᡶᡝᠯᡳ (hefeli) belly, womb (肚) ajige hefeli: the lower belly hefeli aššambi: to have diarrhea hefeli nimembi: to have a belly ache, to suffer gastric distress (腹痛) simhun hefeli: palm of the hand, sole of the foot #Manchu #language #滿文

Yay it's up again! Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire: primary sources translated for teaching purposes. japaneseempire.info I got great experts to contribute guidelines and translations. Use them away in your classroom!

My thoughts on Gov. Abbot's executive orders to state institutions to divest from China. #Texas #China www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

📢 Call for Papers 📢 Join us for an engaging two-day workshop on 5th & 6th June 2025 at the University of Amsterdam to explore local contestations about the 'future' in international law. 📚✨ (Limited) travel funding available decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...

Is there a critical mass of people here? 🤔 Please retweet this if you think I should start posting books here!

Today some of Hong Kong’s brightest and best - politicians, lawyers, journalists, academics - start a combined 245 years in prison. HK cartoonist Ah To sums it up best.

They are indeed going for it. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠸᡝᡵᡳ (weri) adj. another, other weri niyalma: someone else #Manchu #language #滿文

Since I have a lot of new followers, including many in Chinese studies, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about our online search platform for Qing officials recorded in the 缙绅录 database, as well as exam degree holders and their kin recorded in 同年齿录 vis.cse.ust.hk/searchjsl/ 🀄️📚

#ManchuOfTheDay ᠣᡴᠰᠣᠨ (okson, from oksombi) n. step, pace okson be ilinjambi: to halt, to go no farther okson fuliburakū: unable to take a step "tanggū okson i dubede morin ci ebu (dismount 100 steps from the [tomb])" #Manchu #language #滿文

Now available! MORE SWINDLES FROM THE LATE MING presents sensational stories of scams that range from the ingenious to the absurd to the lurid, many featuring sorcery, sex, and extreme violence. https://buff.ly/40lkdX2 #MingDynasty #Swindles #Translation #FictionInTranslation #ReadMore

I could be wrong, but I haven't found any group for scholars of comparative/global legal studies/history (indeed, even for legal scholars/historians). This has been a big part of my research interest, so I have added one more choice if there is any other starter pack already. go.bsky.app/3UAVSRu

Repost (replacing the previous pack due to technical issue). You're welcome to join this more focused group of international scholars working on late imperial China. Please feel free to share and reply if you're interested, and add hashtag #lateimperialchina to future posts. go.bsky.app/EB214nL