On a fan of Volapük in Xiamen: www.sohu.com/a/676613870_...

Invisible Ink will be out in January 2026 as a hardback and ebook:

Xi Zhongxun, an early communist revolutionary, tried to balance reformist instincts with loyalty to the Party. His failure left an indelible mark on his son, Xi Jinping. Read Rana Mitter's review essay on The Party's Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian: chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/13/x...

This looks good nuspress.nus.edu.sg/products/ink...

This is also happening in Prague, but last week the queue outside was too long, so hopefully I'll be able to post about it next month. "Rare treasures from the imperial collections of the National Palace Museum at the Historical Building of the National Museum" www.nm.cz/en/program/e...

These are the Chinese paintings currently on view at Salm Palace. I am told there will be changes in 3 and again in 6 months. Wen Zhengming (attr.), Baoshan Island, Vm 5950 ng.bach.cz/ng_vade/perm...

My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years. #Sinology🀄️📚 read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article... 1/3

Today opens the new permanent collection of Asian art at the Salm Palace of the National Gallery in Prague.

This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."

📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday. It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊ tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn

Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys

Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies

In this new essay, Sia X. Yang follows the journey of Ge Yulu, a once-precarious migrant artist whose bold gestures have been softened by institutional aesthetics. Yet a stubborn critical impulse endures—provoking, resisting, and reimagining the limits of art in contemporary China.

Our project website ‘Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe’ is now live! Visit the site here: dig.sainsbury-instit...

This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk . reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...

The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m

Includes an article on late imperial Chinese pests and the duck method by Yubin Shen 🦆🦆🦆

📍Call for Panels! Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social “Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world” Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals! www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...

Fantastic chapters and an excellent editorial team

Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters: doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...

EU is moving away from reliance on US tech companies, rather than replacing them with proprietary alternatives, they are investing in open-source solutions instead. EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform. www.techspot.com/news/107225-...

Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu #collegiumhistoriaeartium, kterou přednese Adam Przywara (Zürich) na téma Second Materiality of Warsaw: Building with Rubble in the Wake of World War II. Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr. www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/pova...

Chinese #journalism is dead—long live #Chinese journalism! The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today. Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024

AAS is proud to join the Middle East Studies Association and African Studies Association in this letter to the Columbia University leadership urging it to stand strong for academic freedom. buff.ly/l1bXTlr

Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood on the history of buteh for @iias.bsky.social newsletter (2021) www.iias.asia/the-newslett...

I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.

Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.

Soas, 5 December 2024 - 7 December 2024: "Making the subject of portraiture in a trans–Asian context, ca. 1000-present day" www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Programme and more information on this year's ACAS will be available soon on the conference website: acas.upol.cz

Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, Special Issue: China's New Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries, 2000–2022 journals.sagepub.com/toc/ccaa/53/2

'Precarity in Urban China' Workshop at UCL, IAS Common Ground Fri 21 Jun 2024 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM www.tickettailor.com/events/none2...

From CordobaCyril on twitter: "Swiss universities started the year without a contract with two major scientific publishers, Elsevier and Taylor & Francis.. In the background, it is the fight for free access that is being played out." www.letemps.ch/sciences/les...