It's here! _Orphans of the Times_, translations from the pathbreaking Bei Dao and Li Tuo-edited book 《七十年代》. Fiction writers (Han Shaogong! Ah Cheng), poets (Zhai Yongming!), and artists (Xu Bing!) reflecting on their lives in memoirs of the PRC's turbulent 1970s. cup.cuhk.edu.hk/CUHKP/Orphan...

For inspiration on the topic and practical information, please check the full CFP on the conference website: acas.upol.cz/call-for-pap...

An increasingly likely nightmare scenario for 2026: worsening fossil fuel and fertilizer crisis, combined with record global temperatures and drought. Fossil fuel dependence really doing a number on us.

Main building @unisg.ch designed by Walter M. Förderer. Building was inaugurated in 1963. Walked through it everyday when working there from 2011-21, still visit each year. At the top of the stairs hangs an untitled 1966 work by A. Calder. See also: issuu.com/universityof...

Polo Buddies and Rental Cabs: The Donkeys of Tang China and Their Poetic Destinies www.medievalists.net/2022/06/donk... #MedievalChina

ChinAI #357: AI Surveillance in Chinese Universities - incl. Feature Translation: Under the Camera’s Gaze, I Changed from a University Lecturer into a “Performer” - from @jeffreyding.bsky.social (ChinAI newsletter) chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-357...

Per gli amici di Milano, se non hanno meglio da fare... www.fondazioneprada.org/project/cao-...

Once again, bsky.app/profile/chin...

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

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The exhibition at Buxton Contemporary will reassess the output and importance of the 1980s scene. buff.ly/OY8yuWU

Xi's expansion of the security agenda in #China filters into all areas and levels of policy. ➡️ Join for a discussion on Monday, 18 May 2026, with @jknyman.bsky.social, to explore this shift, its impact on policy across key areas, and its global ramifications: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/co...

acas.upol.cz/call-for-pap... Our Department is currently accepting proposals for its 20th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (Nov. 20–21, 2026). The general theme of this year’s conference is “Denial, Exclusion, Absence: Exploring the Negative Space in Asia.”

University management spent £80 million on new building that wasn't needed (presently for sale at £14 million) and now decide 600 staff should go to 'save' £50 million. This is the math currently shaping future of UK HE. Staff paying the price for mismanagement. Govt looking the other way

Calligraphy by experimental poet 车前子 www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poe...

It's only 'counter-intuitive' if your intuition, and indeed thinking, is already extremely bad..

A little disappoined to see no chapter on the Shanghai Biennale in this new Companion

"An Acropolis in China: Modern China and Ancient Greece," a special supplement to Prism volume 21, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/oLVt6Vm

“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...

What does digital sovereignty actually mean in practice? Bulelani Jili uses Kenya’s push to build technical skills as a lens to explore how African states navigate power, dependence, and control in a global tech system heavily shaped by outside actors.

à paraître en mai dans la Bibliothèque chinoise, la traduction par Stéphane Feuillas du Livre des métamorphoses (Huashu 化書) du taoïste Tan Qiao 譚峭, actif au 10e s. www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/978225...

"When the publishing house closed in 2013, Liverani donated a copy of every book ever published by Charta (917 titles) to the University of Milan, along with catalogues from Mazzotta and Electa publishing houses [...] bringing the total collection to 998 titles." sba.unimi.it/en/charta-co...

'The Victoria and Albert Museum has agreed to requests by the Chinese printing company to delete maps and images from at least two recent exhibition catalogues, according to documents released to the Guardian after freedom of information requests.' 1/3

Josef Lada, Masopust v lese, nedatováno (asi 1915) #MUO #Olomouc #sbírka #Lada

This Times report suggests the Home Office is unable to reverse egregious mistakes, if it realises it has rejected university applicants on spurious grounds due to its own incompetence www.thetimes.com/article/1644...

This discount code should get you 30% off the Meditation Sickness volume AAS2026 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/medita...

New Book Announcement: “Observing the Unseen: Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China” by Andrew Schonebaum @uwapress.uw.edu asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-ann...

"We are living in a moment that seems well-suited to teaching about monsters," Mindy Landeck writes in an article from the new issue of Education About Asia. Learn about Landeck's approach and how to bring it to your classroom! www.educationaboutasia.org/article/id/1...

#China #archive #photography #filmphotography #35mm #monochrome 'Mount Tai engraving of 1954 Mao Zedong quotation'* Taishan 泰山, May 1980 📷© @gblee.bsky.social *The core force leading our cause is the Communist Party of China. The theoretical foundation guiding our thinking is Marxism-Leninism.

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Gao Zhen (Gao Brothers) tried on Monday over ‌accusations of "defaming national heroes and martyrs" www.reuters.com/business/med...

Reading: Arms of ethnocracy: Hui Muslims and modern China’s gun control | Modern Asian Studies | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Includes interesting chapters on China-related topics

'If you were to pick one popular science book to read this year then I can highly recommend this one.' 📌 buff.ly/VH7NOiG 📚 buff.ly/Ntqysqn

As another Hong Kong Art Week unfurls across the city, its increasingly confident art scene has much to be proud of—including an embrace of queerness. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/25/p...

Remembering Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026) Longtime Association for Asian Studies member Harriet Zurndorfer passed away on 18 March 2026 in Leiden. Harriet arrived at Berkeley to study Chinese history in the late 1960s....

This gilded Laughing Buddha wearing an eight-pointed crown once graced a Chinese Buddhist monastery. Today, the statue sits in a very different setting on the grounds of the royal Sandringham estate as an unusual imperial garden ornament. 🧵 🗃️ 📜 #China

The city of Zurich, which owns the Rietberg museum, has announced that 11 objects in its permanent collection are being transferred to the Republic of Nigeria, represented by the National Commission for Museums and Monuments. buff.ly/JSfNy4I

From the war diary of an art director in Tehran: "To feel sadness at the death of this kid and so many kids like him now brands you as a regime supporter. When all it is is just grief for the catastrophe that has befallen all of us." www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

"Donors from China have already given 5,000 “household” solar energy equipment sets for installation at three Cuban clinics and a home for the elderly, Chinese official news agency Xinhua said on Thursday." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...

A new museum every 1.5 days: what’s driving China’s massive cultural expansion - by Justine Poplin theconversation.com/a-new-museum...

"'Peace through strength,' they say. And then they start wars. The easiest thing to sell in the world is fear. We are hardwired to feel it." @rorytruex.bsky.social suggests we think about not guns or butter, but bombs or schools.

🚨 Permanent academic positions in #AsianStudies currently open in France on this job cycle: (most closing on 3 April, as this is a yearly, national & synchronized call) 1) Assistant professor, 'China and the world' (humanities) at @upcite.bsky.social sciences.re/postes/media...

Today I received a note from a grad student who lives in Tehran. Her note gives you firsthand experience of what it’s like to live in a city that is being bombed, and what it’s like to be young and feel despair about your future. rezashadmehr.blogspot.com/2026/03/hope...

New from the innovative CUHK Press, looking forward to reading this one!

Want to know more about how Koreans wrote classical Chinese (also called literary Sinitic)? Join us at KU Leuven on March 20 for a book presentation of Yannick Bruneton's Grand manuel de chinois classique Hanmun and a workshop on the question of the periodization of the Koryǒ dynasty.

Very cool postdoctoral opportunity on an ERC project looking at 'Art and Liberation Movements during 20th Century Decolonization'. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “My Destiny” by Liang Xiaosheng tr from Chinese by Howard Goldblatt (Long Rover Press) asianreviewofbooks.com/my-destiny-b...

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

‘Based on extensive fieldwork and impressive analytic skills, Wen-Hsuan Tsai has produced the most detailed and informative account of the evolving political system in Xi Jinping’s China that I have ever read.’ – Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard Learn more and register your interest: doi.org/10.22459/RTS...