Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 29/07/2026How long before Cambridge actually takes this seriously and launch an investigation? 000
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Sea walls built by the Kamakura shogunate to defend Hakata against the Mongols 020
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 07/07/2026This part infuriates me. You waited until there is only one week to replace him to come out with these allegations because you “really agree with his politics”? If that’s the case why bother at all? My goodness, Susan Collin’s is really going to win this one again. 000
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Wow a conference that gives speakers 20 minutes to present…so rare these days 100
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I’m a little shocked and disappointed at how many “Middle Period” China scholars are still stuck in the Sinocentric mind frame. The entire discussion is “China this, China that”. Nobody, even those who claim to do comparative history, talks about the Global Middle Ages or the Chinggisid Exchange 1227
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Air Astana’s inflight safety video features a scene of nomads (Mongols? Kazakhs?) planning a city siege 😳😂 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Visiting Kazakhstan was not on the cards this year but I’m excited to be here! 000
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 15/05/2026NYT can’t even do a basic Wikipedia search….13th century smh 010
Reposted by Yiming HaKevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026RIP Stephen Owen. A testament to what a fine chap, and an ordinary guy, is able to achieve, with just a little social and academic support. As Asian Studies are being decimated, let's strive for a better, more democratic world where every generation 10,000 Stephen Owens are able to flourish. 🍻 093
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I hate dealing with incompetent travel agents…dudes booked me a 1.5hr layover in Seoul ON TWO SEPARATE TICKETS and expect me to to through customs in Korea and check in again for the next flight 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Currently tracing maps for use in my monograph. Look at how much HK’s coastline has changed since the Yuan. 1102
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 24/04/2026New Sui-Tang exhibit at the Hong Kong Museum of History! Over 100 pieces of some of the best stuff from various museums in Shaanxi on display until the end of August. Highly recommend! 032
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Finally got around to read Alyagon's Inked. A wonderful book that is highly relevant to my own work. But I find it kind of problematic he keeps calling it a "penal-military complex", likely in an anachronistic attempt to make the book relevant to a modern audience and to modern issues. 130
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Mainland burger chain Wallace 華萊士 is coming to HK. First store in Kowloon City Plaza 😂 100
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 14/04/2026As part of my lecture on Ming Taizu, I had students write their own instructions for a college dorm based on Taizu’s Placard for the People’s Instructions 教民榜文. Very creative results! Too bad this group didn’t manage to finish 😂 150
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Lüshun Museum is seriously underrated. It’s a beautiful piece of architecture, built by the Japanese in 1917, and has a very impressive collection of bronzes and other artifacts 052
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Some pictures I took from my Dalian trip. Hill 203 was the site of one of the bloodiest battle during the Siege of Port Arthur (1905-1906). Nogi Marusuke lost his son here (pic 4), one of the 8000 Japanese casualties during the battle to take the hill. 100
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Come check out our panel on Saturday morning! And since AAS decided to once again drop the name of our discussant from the program, we have Yi Wang from SUNY Binghamton! 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Genius move by Biden to block TikTok in the US on a hallucinated China threat has now resulted in the app being sold to a group of investors with close relations to Trump.nytimes.comTikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga 010
Reposted by Yiming HaBrian Ulrich @brianjulrich.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Congratulations to @superoldgranny.bsky.social's whose book The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service just won the @mesa1966.bsky.social's Albert Hourani Book Award #Mesa2025yalebooks.yale.eduThe Sublime PostA history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph, the premier technology for long-di... 1124
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Who is Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov trying to gaslight? He voted for the same thing that the Republicans offered a month ago. So it was 40 days for nothing.share.googleThune says he offered Democrats a vote on Obamacare subsidies to end government shutdownSchumer said the GOP did not offer any proposal to vote to extend the subsidies. 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Tim Kaine truly is an idiot. Federal workers were only fired because the government shut down. If that's the case you might as well have kept the government open in the first place. All they got out of it was the same thing Thune offered them in the first place, a promised vote on the ACA 🙄 010
Reposted by Yiming HaSociety for the Song, Yuan, and Conquest Dynasties Studies @ssycds.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities conference in Hong Kong, summer 2026. Hope to see many of you there! 0710
Reposted by Yiming HaScott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 18/08/2025We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down. 46853
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Somewhat of a culture shock here in HK: so many people just loiter in furniture stores, sitting on the sofas and seats playing with their phones 😂 010
Reposted by Yiming HaMárton Vér @acbars.bsky.social · 23/07/20252026 will mark the fourth consecutive year that the study of Mongol Eurasia has been presented in separate panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Here is the call for papers. Spread the word and come along! #mongolsky #tengri #medievalsky www.academia.edu/143008741/Ca...academia.edu 0136
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 20/07/2025What a sad reality we live in when the AAS has to put out a travel concern notice for people traveling FROM the US 041
Reposted by Yiming HaBrendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 15/07/2025Very sad news about Andrew West, an online friend to many of us on here, who had a rare combination of expertises and was always generous with advice on 'Phags-pa script wine advertisements, fake Yuan-dynasty passports, and less-explored reaches of the higher Unicode planes. 24711
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 14/07/2025This week in weird translations in China, how about some "grains as hard" for breakfast? 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Hah, anyone want to try the tea that those damn American colonists dumped into the harbor? 😂 010
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 03/07/2025I think secretly the Dems DO want this bill to pass, because just like Dobbs and abortion, this will help them tremendously in the midterms 010
Reposted by Yiming HaKelly Hammond @kellyahammond.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Xi is going to show Trump how it's done: www.scmp.com/news/china/m...scmp.comChina to mark 80th WWII anniversary with military parade in SeptemberRussian president among those expected to attend commemorations in the Chinese capital. 022
Reposted by Yiming HaDavid Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Another big AAA game beautifully set in a Chinese setting. This time after the fall of the Tang. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Iw...youtube.comBlood Message - Official Reveal Trailer | When History Forgets, Warriors RememberYouTube video by Blood Message 051
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Would you like to read some books on Buddhist philosophy or "the Buddhism"? 🤔 2110
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 15/06/2025This is Nanshan 南山 Park in Jinzhou 錦州. It was here that the Battle of Songjin was fought between Qing and Ming forces between 1639-1641. The mountain is also called 罕王殿山. 040
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Another Chinese toilet sign. According to this Chinese people don't flush and foreigners don't throw away their trash 😂 030
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 14/06/2025The mosque in my hometown. The domes have been demolished and replaced with Chinese architecture, no Arabic is allowed, and the crescent is now on display instead 020
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Goodbye California and USA! Ready for the next adventure in Asia and Hong Kong! 030
Reposted by Yiming HaCraig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Sneak preview - before booking opens - of the rather amazing line-up of speakers for a Chinese art conference in Oxford this September. I'm hugely honoured that colleagues want to do this, it will be a memorable gathering. #arthistory #Chinahoa.ox.ac.ukEchoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond 0121
Yiming Ha @historianyha.bsky.social · 27/05/2025Bibliographies of Feng Menglong's Sanyan stories and Ling Mengchu's Erpai stories are now on the Ming History English Translation Project. Hope it's of use for historians of Chinese literature! Courtesy of Dylan K. Wang (SOAS).minghistoryinenglish.comMiscellanyMiscellany A collection of other texts, resources, websites, etc. that are hard to categorize. John W. Dardess: “Ideas, Determination, Power: How Zhang Juzheng Dominated China, 1572–82.”… 043