Congratulations! Class of 2026 MA PhDs 🌟 The world is your oyster! @uclhistory.bsky.social

144 years ago this week, the Chinese Exclusion Act became law. Restrictions at both the border and the interior shaped Chinese lives in the US for generations. Their lasting impacts are still felt on both sides of the Pacific. Four new books explore the complexities. I write @madeinchinajournal.com:

Departmental Lectureship in History of Medicine at University of Oxford Full time fixed term Deadline for applications 27 May

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Free to join and open to all UK-based SHAPE postdocs (or equivalent) within 10 years of PhD (with career breaks subtracted out of that calculation). 9 regional hubs across the 4 UK nations (travel to events is paid for, and there is pump-priming funding to apply for if you join). Do check it out!

The Donald J Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room, housed in a Tribeca gallery, is a physical, undeniable record of corruption, cover-ups, and crime. It contains all 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files released by the DoJ earlier this year, compiled into more than 3,437 volumes.

This was the maritime flag (ensign) used on Chinese ships around 1700 for national identification. #China

I enjoy publishers’ ad designs in #RepublicanChina books, at the front/end of volumes or the casing. But this ad in the mid of a prefatory volume (首卷) is a first—a 1925 掃葉山房 print of 紅樓夢. And they must love dictionaries judging from all the hearts! #ChinaBooks #Sinology

Out today!

Feeling so refreshed! Giving invited talks, catching up with friends, and soaking in that gorgeous UK sun in Oxford and Cambridge and LSE. Truly the best kind of April healing.🇬🇧🌿

We’re delighted to invite you to the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture 2026🌟 This year’s lecture will be delivered by Professor Peter H. Wilson (University of Oxford), presenting: “Early Modern Europe’s Business of War” 📅 9 June 2026, 17:30 – 20:00 All welcome! Book here: shorturl.at/tnpiK

British Musuem Samurai Exhibition Medieval

I am delighted to share my new article in JAS. Based on Qing confiscation inventories, it examine the relationship between material culture, political power, and cultural identity in the Qing empire. read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...

The Centre for Central and East Asian Studies has been established at the @uclhistory.bsky.social. Welcome to join us for inaugural workshop, Qing China in Global Perspectives 5–6 June. We bring twenty scholars from across the globe, keynote by @camerondcampbell.blog www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

SOAS is going to host a Mongolian studies workshop on Thursday May 8th. See poster attached.

Thanks for coming to the IHR seminar. We had a wonderful discussion.