we made a "get involved" page for @uio-oceh.bsky.social, for anyone who wants to collaborate or just come and hang out. www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english...

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).

My department is hiring! Apply to join me in Oslo :) www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

i am going to say something very mean if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem

Wikipedia is hands-down one of the most authoritative, accurate, transparent, & full-cited informational sites in the observable universe, and has been since like 2015. And no, you don’t “use it as a source,” just like you don’t use Google as a “source.” It’s a source of sources. You scroll down…

Such an excellent book, great to see it out as paperback!

Postdoc Opportunity! Dr. Anna Grasskamp at Oslo seeks a postdoctoral fellow specializing in the early modern Philippines to investigate the artistic use and visual representation of geographical, geological, botanical, zoological, and climatic resources in Eurasia. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.

new OA book, Knowing an Empire. Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue, edited by Mackenzie Cooley & Wu Huiyi (in which I wrote a medieval chapter: "Imperial Territorial Data Before the Age of Print"), available here: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

📣We are delighted to announce that Sara Caputo (@saracaputo.bsky.social) has been appointed as an Editor of The Historical Journal! Caputo is a specialist in maritime history, imperial history and the history of medicine, and we are thrilled that she is lending her expertise to the journal📘

Your 'moment of doom' for June 8, 2025 ~ Climate cliché alert! "The deeper in the ocean they looked, the worse the findings were, the scientists said. At 200 metres below the surface, 60% of global waters had breached the 'safe' limit for acidification." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Job 📣 3-year funded PhD position in modern Chinese history with a broad focus on crime/Qing legal history) Part of an ANR team led by colleagues at EFEO, Academia Sinica, and Université Nice Côte d'Azur, and based in Paris, France. Deadline: May 30, 2025

How did early modern Chinese navigate? What tools did they use? And did they exclusively rely on the compass? Check out my newest article for some answers: doi.org/10.1017/jch....

🔗 Websites vanish. Links break. But knowledge can live on with your help. Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to archive webpages that are important to you. 🕰️ 💾 📌 Try it now: web.archive.org/save

Listen to Mario Cams and me talk about our edited volume "Remapping the World in East Asia" on the New Books Network! newbooksnetwork.com/remapping-th...

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Have you ever noticed that there is something strange about the Mandarin word wǎsī '(natural) gas'? Looking at the written form 瓦斯, it just doesn’t seem like a typical Chinese compound word. What's a roof tile got to do with gas? Let’s see if we can figure out what’s going on. 加油! 1/

Where is tianxia? In an article that was just published in Modern Asian Studies, I looked at the titles of maps from the fifteenth to eighteenth century to try to get closer to an answer to that question. It's open access thanks to the University of Oslo! doi.org/10.1017/S002...

My article on C18th/19th experiences of lightning at sea is out with Transactions. This is the most engrossing and disconcerting topic that I've ever fallen into researching. (Sad, too.) TRHS's editorial process was exceptionally nice and fast: highly recommended! #histmed #histSTM bit.ly/4jz7RSf

Check out an article I co-wrote with Mario Cams on a Ming period world map signed and stamped by the Jesuit Giulio Aleni held in Kobe, Japan. Similar map sheets have been discussed before, but all date to the Qing period. www.cambridge.org/core/product...

#Chine The Tang without #Tibet ? Under pressure from the Chinese authorities, the Musée Guimet des arts asiatiques is said to be deleting the word “Tibet” from its labels. The museum has just inaugurated an exhibition on the Tang. www.courrierinternational.com/article/vu-d...

Added 7 more Sinologists 🀄️ 📚 share and follow, follow and share! go.bsky.app/RzD3VSE

Eyyy Sengoku historian @tokusei.bsky.social is now here! I've been trying to keep up the starter pack on premodern/early modern Japan as I see folks, but it's been noisy as everyone migrates. Hit me up if I missed you and/or you just arrived. go.bsky.app/AzGURTW

If I can finish proofreading and make the index in time, my new book will come out in January. 📖 I've been working on it for five years so I'm pretty excited that it will soon be a reality. I'd like to tell you a bit about it. 1/16

Repost (replacing the previous pack due to technical issue). You're welcome to join this more focused group of international scholars working on late imperial China. Please feel free to share and reply if you're interested, and add hashtag #lateimperialchina to future posts. go.bsky.app/EB214nL

Added more people to the Sinologists 🀄️📚 started pack! Keepo sharing, following, and commenting! go.bsky.app/RzD3VSE

New two-year postdoc on Ming studies at UBC! App deadline January 15, 2025

📣 Job klaxon Associate/Full professor of Chinese studies at the University of Geneva (premodern history, philology, classical literature, philosophy, history of religion) Transregional (Japan, Korea) focus appreciated, knowledge of French a must Deadline: Dec. 19 jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...

Just launched: Taiwan Open Access Journals (TOAJ) 臺灣學術期刊開放取用平台, featuring features many well-known titles, including 台灣文學研究學報 Journal of Taiwan Literary Studies, 臺灣史研究 Taiwan Historical Research, 漢學研究 Chinese Studies... toaj.stpi.narl.org.tw/index

It’s out! I’m happy to announce that the book I edited together with Mario Cams has just been published. The chapters in this book trace how maps and other artifacts circulated in Eurasia and how individuals in East Asia and western Europe engaged with the knowledge from these artifacts.

Great news!

JEACS 4 (2023) is out, fully open access, with a special section on "Culture and Memory" (9 articles), 1 article on diglossia in vernacular stories, 1 spotlight on Pēteris Šmits, 7 book reviews, and a list of recent PhDs. Enjoy and share widely! journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...

Next in our joint publication, the new Isis considers what a labor history of science can & should be. @historyofscience.bsky.social, @sethrockman.bsky.social, & I co-wrote the introduction but the main authors are the real stars. So proud of this. #histsci www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/cur...