Took my Modern China class to visit @bcricciinstitute.bsky.social yesterday! The incredibly talented librarian and my fellow China historian Mårten Söderblom Saarela and his colleagues brought out all sorts of interesting materials for us! What a treat!

Hi Friends! Do you have a skill you'd like to share with your neighbors? Something practical like mending clothes or doing bulk cooking (for events, protests, community support) or maybe influencing government officials or organizing events? Share it & raise money for a good cause

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

A student sent me this meme!

Used this pic in class and one student called Puyi's this look "a bold fashion statement"! (source: theme.npm.edu.tw/exh105/Photo...)

I did this interview almost a year ago, which summed up the general ideas of my book. (As a platform, Faculti is really easy to work with in case you want to know.)

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Found this during class prepping: Chinese photographer Jin Shisheng (with glasses) in Venice in 1938. Jin was on his way to Germany to study and was stuck in Europe for 7 years.

Restorative justice is one of the most meaningful applications of archival work; the CRRJ project at Northeastern is an excellent example of that. I am honored to work alongside colleagues who help shape and grow the CRRJ’s Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive.

It was such a tough time when Irene was working in New York and we were going back and forth in late pandemic days. But she still made the best of it. Here’s a glimpse of what she had achieved there! @willow-branch.bsky.social

Seeing this in Freiburg today makes me think about what’s happening in universities now!

Hands down the best meal I had in Venice! Made by Tsinghua students and future environmental engineers!

Black & Asian Solidarity: Kochiyama Archives Conference. THIS WEEKEND! Go if you are in NYC!

In Rome, the morning of Pope’s funeral.

Venice from air!

See you in Kathmandu!

A chinoiserie door from the 1760s (the only surviving original furnishing of this palazzo)!

有幸受邀在威尼斯参加了清华大学同学们的团日活动！

RIP, Gao Xiaoxian (1948-2025) 高小贤 老师 positionspolitics.org/gail-hershat...

A student in the study abroad program I am teaching at is from Myanmar. They shared some donation links for earthquake relief. Please chip in if you can! gofund.me/8d81de83 actionnetwork.org/fundraising/... www.helloasso.com/associations...

Venice in Chinese Art

上班途中遇到的好声音

Literally!

High tide

A memorial plate in Venice Ghetto dedicated to Dr. Giuseppe Jona, who destroyed records of Jewish patients before killing himself in 1943 (in fear of giving up names under torture). Today, there’s a hospital in Venice named after him. A small reminder of courage in times of cruelty.

A little pink won’t hurt.

A hand-drawn map of Venice by Chinese writer A Cheng (from his <Venice Diary>).

Peak carnival season

Pleased to share a new article on work points, part of an @isisjournal.bsky.social Focus Section on the "Global Life Histories of Numbers," edited by Andrea Bréard. "Work Points in the People’s Republic of China, 1950s to the 1980s." doi.org/10.1086/734001

What’s your morning commute like?

Sunday shopping.

An ice rink!

Untitled.

黄昏的圣马可广场

Door knobs in Venice.

Over the Alps!

This Wednesday at the @fairbankcenter.bsky.social! @tonglam.bsky.social speaking on Extractivism and China's early Cold War Mobilization. Details here: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

9 hours of book porn!

Monty learned a new trick, and did it for the camera reluctantly.