When the U.S. imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court, it also meant that its chief prosecutor lost access to Microsoft services, forcing the Dutch government to make alternative plans.

Seit 2021 haben sieben deutsche Museen unter Leitung des Zentralarchivs der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin zum „Boxerkrieg“ geforscht – nun geben die Provenienzforschenden einen Leitfaden für Museumsfac...

A platform for critical discussions about gender and Japanese animation, fashion, video games, literature and digital cultures

This is the first release of the ChinaComx Lianhuanhua Publication Dataset, including: Initial Dataset Release: Consolidated lianhuanhua publication database comprising over 38,000 entries. Raw Data: Included original, unparsed OCR extractions from catalogues Ref002 and Ref004 in /data/raw/. Processed Data: Cleaned, structured datasets with disambiguated titles, parsed authors, and standardized publisher locations in /data/processed/. Processing Scripts: Python/Jupyter notebooks for layout analysis, OCR extraction, title splitting, and Transformer-based Named Entity Recognition (NER) author parsing in /scripts/. Repository Infrastructure: Standardized README.md, CITATION.cff, LICENSE.md (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), and customized GitHub Issue templates.

Anti-memoirs embrace the messiness of a life lived among others. Novelist and anti-memoirist Yiyun Li shares the books that, in her eyes, define the genre

Gao Zhen, part of a brotherly duo famous for satirical artworks, was convicted of slandering one of China’s heroes after a secret one-day trial.

From Walter Benjamin in Argentina to Theodor Adorno in Japan, this collection brings together leading scholars of Critical Theory to examine the impact of the F…

Who are Tibetans? How have they been framed as objects for study across time? For earlier Western academics and the audiences who read their work, Tibetans were a people largely defined by religiou…

Premier of the People’s Republic of China regarded as an economic reformer who declared that the country had become ‘the factory of the world’

As generative AI becomes embedded in platform-based cultural production, new forms of creative labour are emerging that challenge established understandings of what it means to be a “creator.” This ar...

Idea that climate action is about individual responsibility is as ridiculous as suggesting everyone can equip themselves to fight in war

Turner prize nominee whose installations, sculptures and films returned repeatedly to the histories embedded within bodies

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

Bao Zhang began driving for a Chinese ride-hailing app this year after losing his job as a software tester and says the weak job market gives him little hope of returning to the tech sector.

Musings about China and its place in the world.