This is from a year earlier, 1654 (De bello Tartarico historia). It's interesting how he consistently capitalizes the K in PeKing, unlike for other toponyms like Leaotung (Liaodong)

In the early twentieth century, tin extraction on the island of Bangka, Indonesia, rested on Chinese workers. Koen van der Lijn argues that their labour was not a temporary expedient but the structural foundation of Dutch colonial mining, central to both its profitability and long-term viability.

this looks terrifically interesting: www.sup.org/books/asian-...

In case you were wondering about 天涼好個秋

If you’re in the Cambridge/Boston area, join us today or tomorrow! Saturday’s lineup is especially exciting. Today I’ll be presenting new work on the meanings and uses of ice and frozen water in late imperial China, across political and religious dimensions.

"Once a mere carrier of goods, the red-white-blue bag now carries multiple names and meanings, reflecting, like a mirror, its ties to people: global or local, personal or indifferent, about “us” or “them.” But for many around the world, it is just a bag—either a cheap carryall or a fashion item."

Losing SLACs (small liberal arts colleges) is absolutely a sign of American academia's decline and the gutting of the humanities in particular. I'm pretty sure SLACs are a uniquely American phenomenon. Most countries don't have hundreds of small, non-research-oriented colleges dedicated to teaching.

*Revolutionary Natures* is now in print. @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @uwapress.uw.edu

Looking for to co-hosting this upcoming symposium on Buddhism and the environment on April 24-25 at MIT. Registration link here below: calendar.mit.edu/event/sympos...

Mes amies, I’ll be in #montreal soon to give a book talk on #territorialnatures, hosted by @dcporter.bsky.social: FASCIST SHEEP (yes, really) Land and Livestock in Inner Mongolia under Japanese Rule Wednesday April 8 at 4:00 PM McGill University 680 Sherbrooke, Room 1041 #envhist #envirohist

A reminder that the deadline for nominations to our book prize in Chinese law (any era, any subject) is coming up. We are open to both books about law & books that use legal cases to talk about broader issues. China Mainland/Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore focused studies all welcome!

Thanks @asianstudies.org staff for putting on a great #aas2026 in beautiful Vancouver! So delightful as always to see friends like @eastasiascitech.bsky.social @xiaoshuoing.com @devinfitz.bsky.social @dcporter.bsky.social @tristangbrown.bsky.social @matthewmosca.bsky.social @jeffweng.bsky.social!

Your book prominently displayed and reserved (not by me).

Very moving memorial panel for Prof. Janet Theiss, a sore loss to #qinghistory #genderhistory here at #aas2026 w a wonderful roster including Profs. Tobie Meyer-Fong, Paola Zamperini, Stephanie Painter, Wen-hsin Yeh, and Maram Epstein. What an exemplar of the generosity w which we should live.

Super excited to discussant for this panel tmrw! Thank you @damiandamiani.bsky.social for inviting me. #aas2026

Taking a short break from my regular dire posts (my areas of expertise/interest are Chinese ethnic politics, UK migration policy and UK academia, there's just so much dire), as I am about to take off for the Association of Asian Studies conference in Vancouver and I am really very excited.

I have waited for this book for a long time. Healy sheds fresh light on tourism in China during the Mao era, offering a new & rare perspective on foreign relations and the origins of what has become a massive domestic industry + great title and book cover. Congrats @gavinhealy.bsky.social!

Oooh 👀 This is really important, actually - when writing ‘Silence of the Gods’ I became very aware that a history of the Golden Horde in English was a key deficiency in our historiography of Eastern Europe/Central Asia, so thank you @romanhautala.bsky.social!

Happening tomorrow at MIT

Join us tomorrow at MIT for our environmental symposium on modern China and India. We hope to see you there!

The new issue of the Made in China Journal is out! This time we explore how queerness offers a lens for understanding contemporary Chinese society, as state visions of family and citizenship collide with diverse lived realities and unevenly translated global LGBTQIA+ discourses.

Super excited to see this book in print; Christmas offers a compelling history of imperial Japan’s interests in Mongolia, complementing and expanding beyond the now well drawn picture of Manchukuo’s history. Congratulations Sakura!

Please join in person at MIT on Friday, February 27 for a fantastic lineup of speakers—including Prakash Kumar, Sigrid Schmalzer, Micah Muscolino, Benjamin Siegel, and Heather Roller—exploring conservation, ecology, and food production in China&India. Hope to see you there!

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

At this point I'm not sure how many nails are in the coffin of China's formerly diverse state language policy, but here's one more for good measure npcobserver.com/2026/01/27/c...

If you wrote a book about Chinese law published in 2024 or 2025, we’d love to read it! Please send it our way or tell your publisher to get in touch at the provided email.

I’ve just published an article reflecting on several extended trips I’ve made to China over the past few years. A number of outlets, most recently the NYTimes and the Economist, have written about China’s museum boom, usually framing it in terms of national pride or nationalism.

From imperial ritual through Maoist dialectics to Xi-era heritage politics, in this essay @tristangbrown.bsky.social explores how China’s heritage bureaucracy has turned archaeology into a language of governance, transforming artefacts into symbols of civilisational continuity and state authority.

For some historical context, you can read this little piece (and the earlier pubs related to my first book) dialogue.earth/en/ocean/the...

As the Monroe Doctrine resurfaces through US military action in Venezuela, Craig Smith looks back to the 20th century to show how, in periods of imperial expansion, Pan-American and Asianist discourses flowed in both directions across the Pacific, not only echoing but also reinforcing one another.

We are hiring postdocs! Essentially even though this is one announcement, we are looking for a LLM methods postdoc and a IR/IPE of China postdoc. Would love to have you join us for this 2+ yr position apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04412

My latest list of China books of the year up at @fivebooks.com —along with an interview (key to read for a sense of the books AND at the end has a note explaining some of the rules I set myself embarking on an impossible task given how many good works keep coming out) fivebooks.com/best-books/t...

With Embedded Generations, Liu Jieyu offers a comprehensive examination of Chinese family life since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Available worldwide! Read a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #Sociology

In Becoming Arab, Yossef Rapoport explains how late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans. Out now (13 Jan UK pub)! Check out a free preview and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Come work with us! The History Department at the University of Guelph has launched our search for a tenure-track position in the History of the Middle East. careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A...

Now available in #paperback, @tristangbrown.bsky.social's Laws of the Land tells the story of the important roles—especially legal ones—played by fengshui in Chinese society during China’s last imperial dynasty, the Manchu Qing (1644–1912). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... #History

come work with us for a while skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

Oh this broke my heart today — “I feel so cheated and so sad that I don’t get to keep living the wonderful life I had with this kind, funny, handsome genius I managed to find.” “A Battle with My Blood” by Tatiana Schlossberg

'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain' #Iran 🇮🇷

Check out @nuvoices.bsky.social virtual writing workshop: Writing Across Borders with essayist and academic @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! This workshop will examine the limitations of the dominant discourse on China, and discuss how to write against and beyond state-centric frameworks.

A copy of the NEW BOOK by 2023-24 CASBS fellow Micah Muscolino, "Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People," has entered into the Center's renowned Ralph W. Tyler Collection 📖 About this @uwapress.uw.edu book: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... And check out Micah's awesome shout-out in the book (🧵)

Our forthcoming volume on the environmental history of China's era of high socialism has a cover. Paul Pickowicz, who took the photo when he visited China in 1971 as part of a Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars delegation, also contributed the book's epilogue.

My new article is out! A Daoist mountain synced pilgrimages with crane migrations—governing landscapes and conserving biodiversity for centuries. Rethinking nature/culture today. Read open access: doi.org/10.3390/rel1...

Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Porcelain Tower of Nanjing (南京大報恩寺琉璃塔), built in the Ming dynasty, once dazzled the world as a “wonder of the Middle Ages.” Clad in glazed tiles that shimmered in sunlight and lantern light alike, it rose as both devotion and spectacle. Its fame even reached Andersen, 1/2 #art

1. An amusing interpretation of the Mongol invasion of Poland in 1341 from the pen of the Dominican Galvano Fiamma in distant Italy. #mongolsky #tengri “De Tartaris, qui invaserunt Christianos Ab Oriente Tartari, qui solo lacte et carnibus vescuntur,

'What a fascinating book, illustrated with some wonderful images, some of them quite unexpected!' 📌 buff.ly/8aDUwqf 📚 buff.ly/PLscD2p