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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We spoke to Ryan about his childhood fascination with the Hanjian and how that led to his scholarly recovery of an often-neglected chapter of Hong Kong’s modern history. Read our interview with Ryan llc.ed.ac.uk/news/redisco... @aaronwmoore.bsky.social

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Rediscovering the silenced voices of modern Hong Kong | Literatures, Languages & Cultures | Literatures Languages and Culture

We talk to Ryan Choi who has been awarded a highly competitive fellowship to complete his PhD.

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Researchers! Are you a fox 🦊 or a hedgehog 🦔? In this episode of Beyond the Books, Beth talks to self-professed fox-type, Dr Xuelei Huang. From cinema to smells, they dive into the softer side of history and cultural cosmopolitism in Republican China. Full episode: youtu.be/lrl234hkIZo

Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It says I'm interested in the soft side of history: cultural artifacts...

Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It follows on from the first image and says... common people, even as tiny as smells. But they are never trivial.

Quote from the podcast episode Beyond The Books Series 3 Episode 3. It follows on from the first image and says... They can tell a lot about politics and social change.

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

New article: 'Seeing the Future: Four Stages of Japanese Science Fiction's Literary Evolution, 1870-1937'. A short guide on how the genre was formed well before there was Godzilla or Astroboy. Wild tales from the archives: serena.sharepress.it/giappone/art... #日本sf #科学小説 #sciencefiction #日本科幻 #sf

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SEEING THE FUTURE: FOUR STAGES OF JAPANESE SCIENCE FICTION'S LITERARY DEVELOPMENT, 1870-1937 | Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org‬ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s... @asianstudiesed.bsky.social @bethp1.bsky.social @hanofdan.bsky.social @aaronwmoore.bsky.social

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Scents of China

Cambridge Core - Asian Literature - Scents of China

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 18/06/2025

New #AsiaNow post: Xiaofei Kang speaks about her Oxford University Press book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953, which received the 2025 post-1900 Levenson Prize. buff.ly/NV3Ormh

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Discussing wartime Japanese children's artwork with Marcos Centeno @uv.es through the TRAMEVIC project on EA war memory & visual culture. #自由画運動 #childhist #tramevic #学童疎開 #wwii #evacuation #amateurart #第二次世界大戦 #戦争史 uv.es/tramevic

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School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) @uoe-llc.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences. Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss. 📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Korean Empire

How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th century in a bid for independence.

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

This Thursday at 4pm CEST I am delivering a Zoom lecture for Heidelberg entitled 'Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937'. Please email Barend Noordam (barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de) for the code. (ambivalentenmity.org)

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Aaron Gerow @dengerow.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc. meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/

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映像でみる明治の日本

動画一覧｜映像でみる明治の日本　The Meiji Period on Film - 祝！日本映画120年！「映像でみる明治の日本」を公開しました。芸能、文化、記録など多様な映像をご覧ください。

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Coming soon this year: _The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan_, edited with Seth Jacobowitz. 28 essays and 5 short stories by one of Japan's most important interwar intellectuals, trans. by an international team of scholars. Crucial for teaching.

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Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Released at end of 2024: _How Maoism Was Made_, edited with Jennifer Altehenger, published by Oxford University Press. 17 contributors wrote chapters on science, art, economy, and many more topics, plus our critical introduction. My chapter looks at diaries from the 1950s, in former KMT cities.

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