a new small post on 柏舟 ("Cypress Boat") from the Book of Songs (c 600 BCE). My heart is not a mirror To reflect what others will My heart is not a stone It cannot be rolled My heart is not a mat It cannot be folded away 我心匪鑑 不可以茹 我心匪石 不可轉也 我心匪席 不可卷也 #everynightapoem chowleen.substack.com

Household Daoist ritual groups of Hunyuan county, Shanxi stephenjones.blog/hunyuan-daoi...

Thought for the day: On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).

HOA Research Seminar Series 2025 (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation) 'Art History and Projective Tests' Whitney Davis Wed 5pm Nov 12 Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social @lincoln.ox.ac.uk www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

HOA Research Seminar Series 2025 'Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?' Maria H. Loh Tue 5pm Nov 11 Cinema, The Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @cuny.edu @ox.ac.uk Find out more here: www.hoa.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies. Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation

Fragment https://collections.artsmia.org/art/15789/

#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.

yes but can the Chinese security service hold up all the buses for twenty minutes and then make three come along at once?

On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598" by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

March 1969, Chen Wanli and his wife committed suicide at home. They were among the persecuted intellectuals in the Cultural Revolution. My latest paper traces Chen’s career from medicine, photography, archaeology to the museum, showing precarity and resilience of museum professionals in 20-C China.

#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD

I’m pleased to share that my article “Making Maoshan Great Again: Religious Rhetoric and Popular Mobilisation from Late Qing to Republican China (1864–1937)” has just been published! Open Access: mdpi.com/3142096 via @Religions_MDPI

Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

New Job: Marketing and Advertising Executive - The Burlington Magazine City: London More here ⬇️ jobs.thebookseller.com/career/28399... #PublishingJobs #JobsInBooks

Call for nominations: @chinabooksreview.com is now seeking submissions for the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize, which will be awarded to one work of nonfiction and one of literature. Nomination deadline is December 15.

I don't remember if Follow Friday is a thing here - but follow Postcard from the Past - the juxtaposition of often bland imagery but intriguing snapshots of lives from just one sentence is hauntology at its purest. Or is that surrealism?

We have had a fabulous start for the kickstarter for printed versions of the Rhynie big book, but we need MORE! Please support our project by buying yourself a printed copy of the Rhynie monograph! You have till 6th December to do so! www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

Ways of Seeing, the AAH’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design. 📆Sat 22 Nov 📍The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre 🎟️ https://loom.ly/D388Q7A

Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity! bit.ly/AAS2026Ming

Offre de poste : Ingénieur d’études (H/F) en lexicographie chinoise afec.hypotheses.org/11604

Conjuring on paper ✍️ Explore Will Maclean’s drawings in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/conjuring-on-paper-an-exploration-of-will-macleans-drawings 'Coigach Altar' by Will Maclean (b.1941) © the artist. 📷 Aberdeen Archives, Gallery & Museums

Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...

At the #Shōsōin Exhibition: Very large brush used by Bodhisena to dot the eyes of the Great Buddha in Nara during the eye-opening consecration ceremony in 752. Also, the blue cord attached to the brush which observers held to receive merit for the act. www.shosoin-ten.jp/info/treasur... #正倉院

It's a pleasure to be in Edinburgh with so many scholars working with Taiwanese art. Here I am showing my last findings on Dai Bih-In and his (trans-)experience in Catalonia. A wonderful two days symposium!

HELP US PRINT: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’ This nationally important monograph by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot will only be printed if we hit our crowdfunding target by 6 December. Please support the campaign by registering your interest: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️

#BOTD: Hu Zongxian 胡宗憲 (1512–1565), #Chinese Ming 明 military official, fighter of Japanese pirates #倭寇, and direct ancestor of former Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of China, Hu Jintao 胡錦濤. #WheresHu #籌海圖編 #EarlyModernChina

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Hsu-Sun Scholarship – Foundation’s Sinology Grant and Fellowship Opportunities afec.hypotheses.org/11582

Mongolian Association for Manchu Studies is co-organizing a Manchu studies International conference w/ Eotvos Lorand University. Dunno if I mentioned it here, but National Library of Mongolia has a treasure trove of Manchu-language documents, w/out which "Manchu studies" is rather incomplete IMO 🤔

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Implausible as it sounds, this major Chinese intellectual was in 1974 giving the jieshao to a group of foreign students touring the Minzu xueyuan (I know this, because I was one of them)

It’s a pint of the Edmund Backhouse Pilsner for me cheers - a taste of the old Hermit of Peking at Great Leap Brewery

Appears to have more of a comment than a question

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.

Highly recommend the small but stimulating 'Surface Tension: Photography, Truth, Materiality', part of Photo Oxford #photography @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social photooxford.org/exhibitions/...

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦. We'd love to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2026. If you are interested in reading any of these titles, please send an email to [email protected] to discuss further.

Added another 80 images over the last two days, bringing the total collection to 385 historical photographs of all kinds of reading acts in twentieth-century China: chinareading.wordpress.com

#TaiwanArchives: This film is the earliest known surviving motion picture shot in and about #Taiwan. Dating between 1917 and 1922, it documents the landscapes, architecture, customs, scenery, Indigenous peoples, and colonial traces of #Formosa during the era of Japanese rule. youtu.be/PjA78Oneqj0

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

New book: Alice Volk, "In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan" (University of Chicago Press). press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of November (Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim), 1643

Note to the universe of cable news people reporting right now on Trump/Xi Jinping. For last name of PRC leader, just say SHE. As in "he and she." That's close enough for English speakers. (Not "gee" or "ji" or 'zhi' or something seemingly more 'foreign' sounding.)

#DOTD: Cha Leung-yung/Zha Liangyong 查良鏞, better known as Jin Yong #金庸 (1924–2018), #Chinese best-selling author of #martialarts novels #武俠 #小說 with "over 100 million copies ... sold worldwide (not including an unknown number of pirated copies)." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Yong

Oct 30: Feast of Talorcan, Pictish churchman whose main cult seems to have been at Fordyce, Aberdeenshire. It is possible the Tolarggan Maphan (†726), mentioned in the Annals of Ulster, relates to him. 📸Christopher Gillan #medievalsky

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...