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Isabella Jackson

@isabellajackson.bsky.social
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Historian of modern China living in Dublin

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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Looking forward to this tomorrow!
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Dr. @isabellajackson.bsky.social gave a talk for the Dublin Lunar New Year festival on classical Chinese gardens, including the one in Dublin's St Anne's Park: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOV...
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Isabella Jackson (TCD) -- Classical Chinese Gardens through the Centuries
YouTube video by TCAS: Trinity Centre for Asian Studies
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Valentina Boretti @vboretti.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Out now: Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History, edited by Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social and Yushu Geng, Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social #histchild #histed doi.org/10.4324/9781003321859
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Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History | Isabella Jackson, Yus
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
My PhD student Yuxuan Lang gave a great paper on photographs of Chinese slave-girls in Guangzhou at the fascinating Global Urban History Project in Berlin today ‪@globalurbanhistory.bsky.social‬ @historytcd.bsky.social
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Celebrating 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies with my excellent PhD students, Dexter Tse and Yuxuan Lang! @historytcd.bsky.social
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Great to see lovely former students as we celebrated 10 years of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, including my first PhD graduate, Dr Meishan Zhang, and Chiara Mastronardo who was one of our early MPhil Chinese Studies students!
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Department of History, Trinity College Dublin @historytcd.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Congratulations to Ka Lo Yau on her PhD graduation! Her thesis title was Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). She was funded by her supervisor Isabella Jackson's Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD
A young Chinese woman  in a Trinity College Dublin red and yellow PhD gown
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Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📢 📢📢 Come to Dublin and join us!!! My Department is looking for an Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History. This is a specific purpose contract to replace an IRC grant holder. #skystorians @historytcd.bsky.social For more information, see here 👇 my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...
Job Description - Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European HistoryJob Description - Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European HistoryJob Description - Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European HistoryJob Description - Assistant Professor in Nineteenth-Century European History
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Great to see my colleague @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social speaking at the American Irish Historical Society in NYC tonight
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
My husband, Adam Hanna, wrote this beautiful obituary for Michael Longley:
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
A warning about Chinese control of information if its technology is accepted globally: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
The AI app soared up the Apple charts and rocked US stocks, but the Chinese chatbot was reluctant to discuss sensitive questions about China and its government
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Had a great time at a conference on diplomacy and cultural encounters in turn-of-the-century East Asia in Cambridge this week, with an excellent paper by @clarem212.bsky.social and a keynote by yours truly
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Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Looking forward to this on Monday
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Bowled over by the British Library Dunhuang manuscripts exhibition. Here, the rules for a woman's club from 959, with 15 female signatories, each of whom signed a mark under her name.
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