I am very sad to learn of Alice Wong’s @sfdirewolf.bsky.social passing. I will miss her razor wit, her wisdom, her love for good food, and her red lipstick.

Il reste des places pour notre atelier demain à Paris chez Violette and Co ! Rejoignez-nous le matin pour contribuer sur Wikisource et/ou l'après-midi pour @wikipediafr.bsky.social Débutant•es bienvenu•es ! Vous pouvez aussi nous rejoindre en ligne. Inscriptions 👉 fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:...

Pour les candidat.e.s qui arrivent de l'étranger : ça va vous sembler TRÈS bizarre, je sais, mais il FAUT contacter les labos, pour qu'ils vous aident à préparer le dossier/faire des auditions blanches. C'est le comité national qui évalue/recrute, pas les labos, donc ils peuvent vous aider.

MAINTENANT !

Excellentes ressources ici pour préparer le concours du CNRS. Attention, la numérotation des sections (et le périmètre de certaines d'entres elles) a changé depuis la première publication du billet (l'ex-35 s'est scindée en 37 et 38, l'ex-33 est devenue 35, etc...).

Le 21 novembre à 18h, la librairie Parenthèses reçoit l’écrivain Yan Lianke, romancier majeur de la scène littéraire chinoise. L’échange sera modéré par Justine Rochot, chercheuse au CEFC, et Nathanel Amar, chercheur et enseignant à Hong Kong University.

Realized upon seeing a unusually large number of athletes also boarding my flight to Tokyo that the 2025 Deaflympics are held this week in Japan - pretty cool! Hope they get to wear many medals on the return flight 💫 www.nippon.com/en/in-depth/...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Linguistics at the Center for the Human Past, "historical linguistics pertaining to one or more language families of Africa, Oceania, and Eurasia" desired: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Je serai encore à Taiwan, mais ne manquez pas le passage de l'autrice féministe taïwanaise Li Ang 李昂 à Nanterre le 3 décembre à l'occasion de la parution de l'adaptation en roman graphique du Banquet aphrodisiaque par l'artiste hongkongais Lau Kwong-Shing 柳廣成

You've got that footnote day dream look in your eye And I've got that eighteenth version thing that you like And when we try APA we come back every time Cause we gotta use Chicago style We gotta use Chicago style

Un autre exemple, heureusement servi par une belle image de Zhang Leping en papiers découpés ! (et peut-être desservi par un grand nombre de polices différentes...)

On #RemembranceDay, my yearly reminder that an estimated 140,000 Chinese men were sent to labour in Europe amidst hefty war casualties, and linking to what remains one of the most touching life stories I've had the privilege to research for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...

Waking up in Asia to the *absolutely unhinged news* that the Collège de France, one of the most venerable French academic institutions, cancelled a conference on the past & present of Europe-Palestine relations after our own Minister for higher education ceded to pressure by Jewish orgs in France

Les collègues, c'est parti ! Concours des plus belles affiches réalisées en mode débrouille car retards/délais/manque de supports... Je me lance 👇🏻

the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/07/i...

D'ailleurs s'il y a des gens de l'ESR qui savent comment se faire rembourser des frais de numérisation de pièces d'archives, en particulier par des fonds d'archives étrangers, reconnaissance éternelle 🙏 (car pour l'instant c'est soit mes deniers perso, soit y aller en mission train/avion + hôtel)

Ditto 34-year-old as a professor. Ask me how I know 😅

Pendant mon séjour à Taiwan, j'ai eu l'occasion d'enregistrer une série de trois émissions pour la branche francophone de RTI, d'abord avec Li Ang 李昂 autour des traductions et adaptations de son oeuvre www.rti.org.tw/fr/programne...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

“Primavera 8×5”: fascinating long-read (30k characters!) on the struggles of Sudd Cobas, a grassroots union of migrant workers in Prato’s textile industry dominated by Chinese factory owners. quick thread but it's so well worth a read. mp.weixin.qq.com/s/qCqImhOcvh...

I never thought growing up that the Dutch I reluctantly learned at school (believe me or not, I hated languages) would come *extremely* handy to read up on the Dutch League of Religious Anarcho-Communists for research on translations of the Harlem Renaissance in Shanghai yet... here I am!

What beats writers block is not treating your body like a factory. What beats writers block is healthcare. What beats writers block is gardening, & rest, & food, & companionship, & reading, & leisure, & anti-capitalism—but of course that’s not a very profitable thing to write, & won’t sell LLMs.

I really didn't mind at all the 18- and 20milers at 5am in 31C/81F degree heat but... we've had heavy tropical storms for a week just as I hit taper, and if I have to do another 5-miler on that 150m indoor track (that's 54 laps, if you ask), I will *scream bloody murder* 🤬😅

Not usual. And thus very newsworthy, and worth reading.

#Taipei marches in support of trans rights tonight 🏳️‍⚧️

Eastern Taiwan's ill-fated Taroko Gorge is under evacuation orders due to a landslide barrier lake that formed today (8/17). The debris is 25 meters tall and as you can see in the attached photo of the Swallow's Grotto (via the national parl FB page), water levels were already high this afternoon.

Devastating news about Baek Se-Hee. m.koreaherald.com/article/1059...

Speak White, Michèle Lalonde Speak white il est si beau de vous entendre parler de Paradise Lost ou du profil gracieux et anonyme qui tremble dans les sonnets de Shakespeare nous sommes un peuple inculte et bègue mais ne sommes pas sourds au génie d’une langue youtu.be/sCBCy8OXp7I?...

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

Perfect translation nerdiness meets so-many-childhood-memories timeline cleanse ✨💫

Job klaxon 🚨 Taiwan-based CNRS postdoc position (30 months) on forced labour and migration in SE Asia (migration studies/sociology/anthropology/geography) Deadline: November 4 emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...

The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...

Oui, et avis aux historiens : c'est merveilleusement pratique pour faire une copie cloud de ses bases de données en WebDAV ! (on voudrait juste plus d'espace 🥲)

This is Nobel Week and, like clockwork, people are speculating about Can Xue 残雪 again -- so reposting this little thread in French about a very deserving contender who remains vastly undertranslated in the Francophone world

What fresh right-wing hell is this? Belgian Ministers for Justice and Migration currently on diplomatic mission in Albania and Kosovo to explore building prisons there as a way of "easing prison overcrowding" in Belgium. www.lesoir.be/703134/artic...

Ce 8 octobre, j'aurai l'immense plaisir de retrouver Li Ang à la librairie Le Pigeonnier pour discuter féminisme, littérature et échanger autour de son dernier roman paru en français ! 10月8日，我很榮幸在信鴿法國書店與著名作家李昂對談。我們將會談到女性主義文學，也談到她最近在法國出版的《鴛鴦春膳》譯本等議題。歡迎大家！😊 www.llp.com.tw/mainssl/modu...

Shady hikes are a good call will temperatures in the mid thirties even as we push into September. Here are a couple more cool contenders: Shuangxigou Historic Trail tinyurl.com/bdhe4usp Dongman Trail tinyurl.com/2p5w6jmf Salmon Bat Cave tinyurl.com/3kw2abcw

Late to the party, but just discovered 鬥鬧熱走唱隊 Taugether, the band that put 賴和 Loa Ho's poetry to music, and it's beautifully done: streetvoice.com/taugether/so...

Nice little chill Sunday hike in Maokong to kick off what is hopefully a long series of Sunday hikes while I'm here ☀️ And a big shoutout to @taiwantrailsandtales.com - fabulous to be able to pre-screen hikes by shade level with weather like this 🕶️ taiwantrailsandtales.com/2017/08/16/y...

Reflections from the launch of Death Row Literature, a collection of poetry by Pannir Selvam Pranthaman, a Malaysian national on death row in Singapore: www.wethecitizens.net/death-row-li...

I was out of my usual cereal bars heading into my long run this morning so I grabbed some dried mangoes I had around, and it was *so perfect* I'm now considering fueling my entire marathon on dried mangoes... Brb calculating how many 芒果乾 one does need to get 60g/hour of carbs 😁

#OtD 30 Sep 2014 Xu Lizhi, a poet and rural migrant who worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, died by suicide at the age of 24. Learn more about Xu and other Chinese migrant worker poets in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/wcl-...

12 Phd/ 17 Postdoc positions (fully funded) in the new Cross-Cultural Philology Cluster at LMU Munich: www.lmu.de/crosscultura... (apply by Oct 21).

J'ajouterai pour les auteurices qui n'ont pas la main sur les couvertures etc, qu'il est possible de faire ajouter des clauses anti-IA dans vos contrats. Que ce soit pour la non-utilisation de votre texte pour l'entraîner ou pour vos futures couvertures. On n'y pense pas mais c'est possible de négo

Overdue recognition. 🗃️

Earlier I shared the story of the “TL branch”—a group accused of sedition during Taiwan’s White Terror in the early 1950s. What more do we know about them? For context, see here: bsky.app/profile/albe...

Quick shot of Huang Chong-kai's prize-winning speech today at the Golden Tripods awards for Anti-Gravity, a novel about resistance in 1970s Taiwan -- ending with a lovely tribute to the enduring need for the kind of anti-gravitational dreams that help break free from the pull of authoritarianism

The Matai'an landslide dam in Taiwan has breached today in response to extreme rainfall from super typhoon Ragasa. There is a superlative storyboard (in Mandarin) that contains details, including images and video:- storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5864...

An article on Hsu Hsih 許石, who saved Taiwan folk music and "rediscovered" the blind folk musician Chen Da 陳達. It's the subject of Andrew Jone's fifth chapter ("Folk Circuits. Discovering Chen Da") of the now classic "Circuit Listening. Chinese Popular Music in the Global 1960s".