Not sea glass but fragments of plastic car tail lights, indicators and brake lights, probably washed into storm drains after heavy rain, eventually making their way to the sea. #oceanplastic

Call for applications: 2026 Esherick-Ye Foundation research grants, to support student/junior faculty research in Chinese history or archeology. Submit all materials by January 9, 2026.

ghibli does its homework

A beautiful crisp day on which to welcome new students to the Chinese Studies programme at Manchester @uomhums.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

Aircraft carrier HMS Hermes arriving in Shanghai, c1929-32

A beautiful crisp day on which to welcome new students to the Chinese Studies programme at Manchester @uomhums.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk

Campus is buzzing with fresh faces and big ideas- which can only mean it’s welcome week! 🐝 Shoutout to all our new Humanities students starting their journey with us. 💜 #HelloUoM

Finished an interesting book today. I knew some about the Sassoons and Kadoories in India but not in HK and Shanghai. www.eslite.com/product/1002...

Reposting this link from @hildedw.bsky.social on FB: Forms & Function: The Splendors of Global Book Making dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...

Ogre-like FDR & Churchill sporting quite undergarments as they stare down a tasty cow (labeled "Asia") armed with Japanese swords for horns From a Feb. 1942 edition of the satire magazine Manga

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

"Tamra Maew manuscripts pair illustrations of these auspicious pets with poetic descriptions and notes on what mystical benefits the owner might hope to accrue, which may range from riches to good health."

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Our staff is in the process of cataloguing a recently donated collection of archival material. A cursory survey suggests that the collection primarily contains French-language letters and newspaper clippings relating to the Catholic church in China in the first half of the twentieth century.

Thanks for the reminder it's #WoodblockWednesday! Below, @sudasana.bsky.social shares a link to vols 1-8 of 32 from an incomplete copy of Shi Chengjin's (~1658-after 1739) 家寶全集. BSB also holds a second, complete, & lower budget edition produced later 1/ www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/search?fi...

It's #WoodblockWednesday again! Here's a bonkers book of 2000+ pp. in which the author records his thoughts on anything and everything under the sun, basically an 18th century literatus substack. Shi Chengjin 石成金 (1739-1795), 家寳全集, www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb0...

It's #WoodblockWednesday again! Here's a bonkers book of 2000+ pp. in which the author records his thoughts on anything and everything under the sun, basically an 18th century literatus substack. Shi Chengjin 石成金 (1739-1795), 家寳全集, www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb0...

A few shots from a morning ramble around Wanhua District, Taipei: 1) Xinfu Market (新富市場); recently revitalized. 2) Jiyi Temple (集義宮); a center of Taiwanese folk beliefs. 3) Renji Sanatorium (仁濟療養院); Taiwan's first mental health facility? 4) Wanhua Chen Residence (萬華陳家古厝); neglected and overgrown...

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

Every time, without fail, that I need to count twelve of anything, I sing it to this tune www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTr_...

Here’s a poem called ‘English Roundabouts’.

#DOTD: Feng Zikai 豐子愷 (1898–1975), pioneer Chinese cartoonist #漫畫

Detail from the ‘Four Season Mosaic’ depicting autumn from Roman York (Eboracum). The mosaic was discovered in 1853 at Tanners Row in York, and dates to sometime between 268AD to 350AD. Now part of the collections at the Yorkshire Museum in York. 📸 My own #MosaicMonday #York

Worn #onthisday in 1941 in a benefit fashion show of "ancient and modern Chinese costumes worn by young Chinese ladies" organized by actress Anna May Wong, presented during the intermission of the Pacific Southwest Tennis Championship at the Los Angeles Tennis Club. #OTD @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social

As a Satan influencer in the 1550s, one needed drastic selfies to stay in the social media game. On this #HistSelfie you see the devil himself trying to rob a woman. Bonus points for the knee caps of the devil.

“A row of men lean against the metal shutters that keep them out of Westminster tube station, as they piss through the bars directly onto the steps on the other side. Nearby a furious man in his early 30s yells ‘bring the cocaine here now, mate’. It is not yet 2pm.”

Trapped #Caturday #ProofOfCat

#PhilosophyJobs #Philosophy Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair in Chinese Thought and Culture (deadline: October 7, 2025): jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Trapped #Caturday #ProofOfCat

The train had a baggage car, two coaches and a private car with various compartments for the prince and his immediate entourage. It stopped on the bridge over the Credit River near Georgetown so the Royal party could admire the scenery. 2/3

I love the smell of cornbread in the afternoon

In our latest blog, senior photographer Tony Richards explains how the Imaging Team at the Rylands created a 3D representation of Cuneiform 931 (a tablet from the Old Babylonian period) for an exhibition by the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social in London. Blog: ow.ly/zS7B50WVCfk

Read an excerpt from A HISTORY OF UYGHUR BUDDHISM on Lion's Roar. buff.ly/Ob0lbEU

There aren't many perfect albums. This is one.

👊🏻Join me for this 'Translation as Activism' workshop at the 2025 Manchester Literature Festival 👊🏻 @mcrlitfest.bsky.social manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/trans... 🤜🏻10 free tickets can be claimed by MMU (@manmetuni.bsky.social) & UoM (@uomhums.bsky.social) students ➡️📧 [email protected]

First generation academic here and am eternally thankful for all the opportunities that I've had in the career.

Do you know how many amazing people have lived and worked in Manchester? Take a look at our blog, 'The men and women who shaped the city', and we guarantee there will be some stories you've never heard of. medium.com/special-coll...

Wow - pretty much everything I've ever published is in here

The earliest surviving photographs of Japan were shot by Eliphalet Brown as part of the Perry Expedition in 1853/54. Among many landscapes, Brown also took a few portraits, including this anonymous Buddhist priest at Shimoda – likely the earliest surviving photo of a Buddhist cleric.🧵 🗃️ 📜 #Japan

Nice to see that there are Chinese history jobs opening in this cycle, despite the state of (wildly gestures) *everything* Assistant Professor, Modern (post-1911) Chinese History at Yale apply.interfolio.com/169929

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Built in 1965, still futuristic in 1989 (and 2365)

Horton Hears a Coup

Morning!

Call for book proposals! Are you passionate about punk? 🤘 Do you have an idea for a book? 📖 Send us your idea for a fresh take on punk to mark the 50th anniversary, that could be the next instalment our acclaimed British Pop Archive series. 🎶 More details below 👇 #booksky #punk

@qiaoj.bsky.social presenting now #BACS2025

Let's go #BACS2025 #Leicester

A great interlingual pun, restaurant sadly closed forever #Leicester