It's a time for joyful bunnies! 🐇 This expression is joyful, right? 😅 Yesterday was #InternationalRabbitDay, so take a moment to appreciate this Imari dish from the 19th century of rabbits and pondweed. Held by the Tokyo National Museum: colbase.nich.go.jp/collection_i...

DS seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for a full-time, NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship. To apply, please follow this link: wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

It's Banned Books Week! Go read a book they don't want you to read!

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Harvard paused plans to renovate four University libraries ahead of its 400th anniversary in 2036 as part of a temporary halt to capital projects amid its ongoing fight over federal funding. Sophie Gao and Alexandra M. Kluzak report.

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities conference in Hong Kong, summer 2026. Hope to see many of you there!

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

As always, Ted Chiang is great in this interview. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Newly added to the special collections librarian's toolbox :)

Fobazi is currently in the ICU and could use your support. Apologies to those I haven’t been able to reach out to yet. You can message me for more info and I will be posting updates to GoFundMe. Please share, send healing thoughts, prayers, etc. ❤️ -Elena gofund.me/c8485b58

Vale @babelstone.co.uk (reposted from Sinologists FB group). 嗚呼哀哉！

@universityofkansas.bsky.social KU East Asian Library is offering a travel grant for scholars and grad students who will use the the library's East Asian language collections in FY26. Apply by 9/19: guides.lib.ku.edu/c.php?g=9498... #Sinology #AsianStudies #libraries

My department at Williams College is hiring! Williams is a wonderful place to work and my colleagues in the Chinese program are great. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Chinese apply.interfolio.com/169464

We had a prestigious guest inspecting our microfilm room today. Meet Remy, resident scholar of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

NEW: A ChinaFile investigation into China's powerful, but leaky, internet censorship system at locknet.chinafile.com 1/21

Tabletop gaming in medieval China

It is not rocket science to see that candidates who win recognize that life is challenging for many people in the US and run on bold, clear promises and policies that actually address the lives and concerns of their constituents. Every candidate has to be a change candidate now. Shake things up!

Dems owe the American people a plan for restoring democratic legitimacy to the Supreme Court.

Very excited to share some updates on the revision of Chinese rare books cataloging guidelines at #RBMS this Wednesday. Let me know if you're in New Haven later this week and want to catch up! 👋🫣

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Alexander Bevilacqua will give the 2025 Kress Foundation Art of the Book in Europe Lecture, “Chivalry in Color: Central European Tournaments and the Matter of Race.” at 5:30 p.m. ET on 11 June in UVA’s Special Collections Library Auditorium or via Zoom. Details: rarebookschool.org/programs/lectures

Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦‍♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?

Tomorrow: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Qian Xuesen will be celebrated as a national hero in China and a scientific pioneer worldwide long after Marco Rubio is relegated to a minor footnote in the history of Trumpism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

We unpack how targeting Chinese student visas could hurt US universities' finances & American innovation in 5 charts. With Liyan Qi, Ming Li. So, 1 in every 4 international students comes from China. They make a larger share at some elite schools👇 t.co/zbxOCHiAsj

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

It ys a such challenging, turbulent, scarye tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum small moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

Omg @devinfitz.bsky.social !! libraryjuiceacademy.com/shop/course/...

Interesting Smithsonian Institution article on the restitution ("deaccessioning") of the Zidanku 子彈庫 fragments: tinyurl.com/2p9rxc2r

Sad news. Yale's Ten Thousand Rooms Project will be phased out this year: "... the practical challenges of maintaining the site have proved too daunting. Updating the site and ensuring its long-term viability would require a massive overhaul, which we do not have the funds for." #sinology

Two years ago, I heard that Taiwan's govt had unearthed surveillance files from the secret police of its authoritarian era. They were finally becoming open to the public, nearly four decades after Taiwan's democratisation. I wanted to see what was inside: www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...

This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Before April 22, I would not have believed a Supreme Court justice would flat out lie- but as the author of the children's book in question, I can confirm that he absolutely did. Thanks @jaywillis.net for reporting on this- more people should be.

Patriots Day holiday here in MA, but it's also #ManuscriptMonday! Some pages below from a 3 vol. MS that brings with it a question. The book was (woodblock) printed, so are these from an author's draft or a reader's copy? Without more information than HOLLIS & HUAM list online, hard to know. But...

As a person who repairs books, I counsel people on this all the time: the default for physical objects, if left alone, is to continue existing. The default for digital files, if left alone, is to disappear. Digital history requires care FOREVER; one missed reformatting and good luck recovering it

Translated primary sources for teaching the history of ethnicity in medieval China. A fabulous resource! #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky www.academia.edu/community/ln...

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

This is terrorism.

Spent a great day with Soren Edgren preparing for our summer class on Chinese book history, at @rarebookschool.bsky.social and @uvalibrary.bsky.social's Small Special Collections Library. Working with the dedicated staff at RBS and UVA Library makes the experience extra fulfilling

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

BREAKING: On Friday, the federal government issued new demands of Harvard University. The university's lawyers just responded: back off.

"There is still no transparency on the grounds for these revocations, nor is there any clear process for determining what the charges are against the students. Due process is woefully absent." www.nafsa.org/ie-magazine/...

From my visit last week to the Topaz Internment Camp, where Fred Korematsu was interned. This quote still sticks with me.

I was today years old when I discovered this phenomenal podcast on medieval Chinese history: 在世界中的中國 by 甘懷真 Kan Huai-Chen, a leading Tang historian. Highly recommend! #sinology 🀄️📚 open.spotify.com/show/0Dqf9mV...

Could you use help explaining the value of #cataloging & good metadata to your admin, coworkers, #MLIS students, etc.? Happy to share this set of resources put together by an ALA working group chaired by @magsjoy.bsky.social. All of these & more are available at hdl.handle.net/11213/22872. 📚

My @nehgov.bsky.social grant “In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Short Fiction by Jewish Writers from the Soviet Union” was canceled by “DOGE.” The project doesn’t support "the furtherance of the President's agenda.” Jews surviving genocide: out of step w/ the agenda of using Jews to destroy higher ed.