This is a fantastic piece that should be read by anyone considering applying to a doctoral program.

#TaiwanArchives: 1950 Soldiers, rickshaws, cyclists, and automobiles navigate the streets of Taipei

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

#China #June4 #photography "Tiananmen...a year after" Today is the anniversary of the #Tiananmen Massacre, June 4, 1989. I took this photograph a year after. Its emptiness speaks for itself. @gblee.bsky.social

A Penn State photojournalism student has been documenting the ICE-created chaos at the Delaney Hall protests. @njspotlightnews.org is publishing his work. “I’ve covered hard news before, but this is the first time I’ve ever had tear gas and pepper spray directed toward me.”

Happy #MaskWeek! If, like many people, you stopped wearing a mask years ago, it’s not too late to start again 🩵 Doesn’t have to be all the time. Any time you mask you’re less likely to get sick or pass on whatever you might have picked up, & you might even avoid a life ruining infection.

hey did you know it’s WORLD MASK WEEK ??? you don’t have to be the most perfect mask wearer of all time to make choices that protect your health—ANY time mask means cleaner air for you n all around you, and that is worth it !!! why not give it a try at The Big 3: • shopping • healthcare • transit

one of my favourite new expressions in Chinese is 又双叒叕 又 means again and if you want to emphasize something is happening again, and again, and again... 又双叒叕 is very visually effective!

Rather belatedly getting around to reading @jeremiahjenne.com on Li Zhisui’s Mao memoir. This was one of the first nonfiction books I ever read about China (back in high school)! Enjoyed this refresher on its salacious and historically questionable content.

I love his building blocks advice. #AmWriting 🗃️

♥️ powerful speech by Lin King, translator of Taiwan Travelogue @linkinglionking.bsky.social

It’s publication day!

One of the two public universities in Oregon currently undergoing retrenchment published a report on which programs make the most $ for the university (which shouldn't be the primary factor in keeping or cutting them), and the answer by a LONG SHOT was History/Poli Sci

Ever wondered why so many indie bookstores have masking policies to prevent #covid? We asked them! Read our new article “Indie Bookstores Promoting Masking and Covid Consciousness in 2026” 📚💙https://www.whoevenreads.com/indie-bookstores-promoting-masking-and-covid-consciousness-in-2026/

“That’s where billionaires like yourself come in. For a mere $10 million gift, you can help us remake the intellectual landscape by endowing a prestigious chair in an underrepresented subfield, such as geocentric astronomy, high-energy phlogiston physics, or patriotic history.“ 😂

I strongly suspect this is true of every field. There is what people think they know about it, and then there is what the daily experience of it for those who are in it. There is a wide gulf, and every one of those jobs is harder than it looks from the outside.

My translation of ADRIFT IN THE SOUTH, the debut memoir of Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai 小海, out with Granta Magazine Editions today. A landmark work of the migrant worker literature movement, it showcases one of China’s liveliest emerging voices. #XiaoHai #chineseliterature #translatedliterature

Some great books on this list; particularly looking forward to getting some time with #5, "Uncanny Beliefs: Superstition in Modern Chinese History," ed. @emilybaum.bsky.social & Albert Wu, feat. essays by @qiaoj.bsky.social & others

A really thoughtful review; worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Liked this observation: “The case studies demonstrate that care, endurance, and domestic labor can themselves become acts of profound rupture.”

I was delighted to get this book by my fellow UCI alum, Xia Shi, in the mail late last week, a natural follow-up to her first book on elite women int he early Republic. Looking forward to more reading time with it in May.

A privilege and a pleasure to celebrate the 101st Class of Fellows with an announcement in the @nytimes.com 🎉

Popular author discovers SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW OMG: "My book tells the untold history of....!!!!!!" Actual historian: no. we all know that already. sorry.

Here I am at the UNC Press booth with my amazing editor @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and MY BOOK.

I'm honored to have been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and thrilled it will allow me to dig in on my next book, The Long Resistance: Dissent and Disunity in China's War with Japan. So grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and the many who have supported my work in so many ways. #guggfellows2026

Review of Pierre Fuller's 2022 book, Modern Erasures, up at PRC History Review. Minerva Inwald reflects on Fuller's exploration of how early/mid 20c modernizers constructed China as a place "devoid of public morality." With response from Fuller.

I am so sad to see this news. Harriet just oversaw the publication of my most recent article in NanNü in November, giving thoughtful suggestions. A broad thinker, generous and supportive of other scholars.

Not the period drama you might expect.

“We must come to realize that if we live long enough, every one of us will experience disability. Instead of viewing those with disabilities or chronic illness as unproductive or no longer useful, we must fight for a society that measures its health by how well it cares for those who need the most.”

"Generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy. Their stories refuse soft burials." So honored to have a review essay out in Banned Books Week @chinabooksreview.com on two of Fang Fang's most acclaimed novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social:

In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Very nice to see a piece by @laujessie.bsky.social of @nuvoices.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social

Incredibly thoughtful piece on the uses (or lack thereof) of AI. Historians will find this thinking relevant too.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

This powerful essay by @yangyangchen is in the special section on Authoritarian and Resistance

Thoughtful interview with Stanford Prof Matthew Sommer (by @mauracunningham.bsky.social) about Sommer's new book, which is on my to-read list for the fall. Lots of insights and observations for further thought just in this q-and-a.

The Japanese editions of BETRAYING BIG BROTHER: The Feminist Awakening in China just arrived! My book has now been translated into Italian, Korean, Portuguese and Japanese. The New York Public Library named Betraying Big Brother one of its “essential reads on feminism”: bookshop.org/p/books/betr...

I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series! China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...

Glad to see this reposted, gave me a chance to give shout outs for good books that were largely under the radar, eg a set of Liang Qichao essays, an accessible book by @katemh.bsky.social w/a great title:Women & Their Warlords, also includes an early plug for a 2025 book: by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social

🧵 I'm not doing a full-scale tour to promote my forthcoming very short trade book that discusses some inspiring activists in Thailand and exiles from Hong Kong and Burma globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi... but I'll do events related to it in NYC June 9, DC June 10-13, some details below....

Smart piece by Violet Affleck on COVID, climate response, & disability activism: "The climate resilience our society needs to build relies upon the skills and systems of pacing that disabled and chronically ill people have built to manage both their own symptoms and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."

If you're in the Bay Area, the @hooverinstitution.bsky.social book launch for my @stanfordpress.bsky.social biography of Xi Jinping's father will be on June 3: the day of the book's release. You can also join virtually. www.hoover.org/events/party...

Happy to report that I've got a new book out, The Raider.

I don’t do this often but I highly encourage yall to preorder my friend John Beck’s book; out next month. It’s extremely good; like a modern day but real life ‘The Americans’ “Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized” www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774464...

This. We are currently in a situation where our national defense against pathogens is on the ropes. I will continue to mask indoors in public, because I can only control my choices and not anyone else’s.

Read Winifred Dongyi Wang's essay about Pai Hsien-yung's "New Yorkers" and immigrant identity: buff.ly/raPftnP

Your periodic reminder that we are experiencing a mass disabling event.

"We’re facing an unsustainable rate of reinfection for an unsustainable percentage of the population with a virus that carries an unsustainably high risk of long-term damage."