Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org‬ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... @asianstudiesed.bsky.social @bethp1.bsky.social @hanofdan.bsky.social @aaronwmoore.bsky.social

New #AsiaNow post: Xiaofei Kang speaks about her Oxford University Press book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953, which received the 2025 post-1900 Levenson Prize. buff.ly/NV3Ormh

A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'

In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social

Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social

Discussing wartime Japanese children's artwork with Marcos Centeno @uv.es through the TRAMEVIC project on EA war memory & visual culture. #自由画運動 #childhist #tramevic #学童疎開 #wwii #evacuation #amateurart #第二次世界大戦 #戦争史 uv.es/tramevic

Edinburgh University returns indigenous skulls to Japan www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences. Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss. 📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This Thursday at 4pm CEST I am delivering a Zoom lecture for Heidelberg entitled 'Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937'. Please email Barend Noordam ([email protected]) for the code. (ambivalentenmity.org)

The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc. meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/

Coming soon this year: _The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan_, edited with Seth Jacobowitz. 28 essays and 5 short stories by one of Japan's most important interwar intellectuals, trans. by an international team of scholars. Crucial for teaching.

Released at end of 2024: _How Maoism Was Made_, edited with Jennifer Altehenger, published by Oxford University Press. 17 contributors wrote chapters on science, art, economy, and many more topics, plus our critical introduction. My chapter looks at diaries from the 1950s, in former KMT cities.

Londoners! I am giving the Annual International History Lecture at the LSE in just under two weeks. I hope to see you there. #history #科学小説 #sciencefiction www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...