Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Fifty years ago today (my column from 2024): This Week in China's History: The Death of Mao Zedong open.substack.com/pub/sinica/p...open.substack.comThis Week in China's History: The Death of Mao ZedongSeptember 9, 1976 010
Reposted by Jay CarterMarianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026The Battle of Algiers debuted 60 years ago this August. I wrote a historian's guide to the now classic film. Read it here:newsletter.mariannedhenin.comA Historian's Guide to The Battle of AlgiersPontecorvo and Saadi Yacef's now-classic film debuted 60 years ago this August. Here's everything you need to know about it. 03014
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This Week in China's History is back on a bi-weekly cadence through @sinica.skystack.xyz Meanwhile, I'm reposting some old columns on their actual dates just for fun: Sept 3, 1906: the Copyright Police get serious: thechinaproject.com/2023/09/06/a...thechinaproject.comA Shanghai bookseller gets kidnapped — and brings out the copyright police – The China ProjectIn the early 20th century, Chessboard Street in Shanghai was the heart of the Chinese publishing industry. This is where our story begins: when Li Difan, a salesman for a small Shanghai bookseller, fo... 020
Reposted by Jay CarterChad P. Bown @chadpbown.com · 30/08/2026Super grateful to @nytimes.com for putting this in the Sunday print edition 925491
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My latest This Week column takes us to 1363, and the first recorded use of firearms in a naval battle open.substack.com/pub/sinica/p...open.substack.comThis Week in China’s History: The Battle of Lake PoyangAugust 30, 1363 000
Reposted by Jay CarterMilk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026New event! 📆24th Oct Time EDT: 🕐1pm Exhibition 🕖7pm Film Screening At York University, Toronto, Exhibition & Film Screening "MEMORY X RESONANCE 記憶與共鳴" One City. Three Generations. A Journey of Memory and Migration from Hong Kong to Canada. Details: www.facebook.com/memoryxreson... 044
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026wwnorton.com/books/978039...wwnorton.comChampions DayHow a single day revealed the history and foreshadowed the future of Shanghai., Champions Day, The End of Old Shanghai, James Carter, 9780393635942 010
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 03/04/2026‘City of Parasites’ or ‘Glamorous Metropolis?’ China’s Cosmopolitan Contradiction www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/w... In a former world (June 2020), Champions Day was going to launch at the history museum (pictured here)!nytimes.com‘City of Parasites’ or ‘Glamorous Metropolis?’ China’s Cosmopolitan Contradiction 100
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Interesting, but... I don’t think understand this take. I don’t know that I think of anything being between research and writing…i mean they are different but they bleed onto one another. Not discrete activities 000
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Wordle 1,706 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Where do I buy lottery tickets!? 120
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 29/01/2026I didn't think it was possible to make Bill Belichick a sympathetic figure.... 020
Reposted by Jay CarterMike Cormack @bucketoftongues.bsky.social · 15/01/2026!! PUBLICATION DAY !! My book on Pink Floyd is released in paperback today. See thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/... 153
Reposted by Jay CarterJeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026"A man is successful…He’s made his way to the top of his field, accumulating personal loyalty, and more than a few enemies, on his way to becoming one of the most recognizable names in the country. Unexpectedly, he decides he wants to be president…" New Rhyming Chaos with historian James Carter:rhymingchaos.comChina's disastrous first presidentWhat can we learn from democratically elected Yuan Shikai, who appointed himself emperor? 391
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026www.delish.com/food-news/a6...delish.comThis Is Officially The Most Popular Soda Brand Among Teens & It’s Not Coca-ColaSHOCKING. 000
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The sheer awfulness of the snf “Sunday night anthem” is proof that money doesn’t guarantee quality 020
Reposted by Jay CarterMark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302 11851191360
Reposted by Jay CarterPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 30/12/2025Open up this picture fully. Then look at the surface of Mars. Then look up to the top right. Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky. Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos. That's Earth. 7647341854
Reposted by Jay CarterHeidi B. Hammel @hbhammel.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Stop. Read the post below. Do what it says. Look at Earth - our home world - from the surface of Mars. You are a terranaut on that fragile planet. This moment brought to you courtesy of NASA Science. 4380143
Reposted by Jay CarterMary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Just started reading an advance copy and you should gift yourself this book for the holidays. Alfred McCoy, Cold War on Five Continents @haymarketbooks.org HaymarketBooks.org share.google/cAM9ZXObq9Pi... 35617
Reposted by Jay CarterYuzhou @baiy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025The Harvard-Yenching Library is now accepting applications for 10 travel grants up to $2,000 each. Open to non-tenured faculty and Ph.D. candidates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #sinologydocs.google.com 1612
Reposted by Jay CarterCalum Cockburn @ccockburn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025An interim version of the Explore Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue is now available through the BL website: searcharchives.bl.uk It contains all the catalogue data from the eve of the 2023 cyberattack, and features embedded links to all currently available digitised content within the records. 16240
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Not directly related but if you haven’t yet encountered it I strongly recommend Thinking Like Your Editor, by fortunato and Rabiner. Invaluable advice. Best to read it early in process. 010
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Happy to answer any specific questions you might have if they come up 110
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Highly recommend. If working with a trade press (or wanting too) it’s really essential. Also the agent gives great advice on proposals etc and advocate for you 130
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I wrote a This Week column on this earlier this year...but it seems to have disappeared into the ether. Or perhaps kidnapped by Mongols? Anyway...shall investigate! 120
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Thinking about this more, perhaps you could ask Love Of Your Life the same question of freshly prepared food. Do you a) put it on its own plate, or b) on the plate you used for yesterday’s dinner? 000
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Can barely remember getting a shloske for less than ten bucks. Good times 000
Reposted by Jay CarterJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/11/2025This is what every single person with any experience in China has been warning about from the start. Very good WaPo story by Katrina Northrop and Rudy Lu. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1... And good, clear headline! 15424145
Reposted by Jay CarterJeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Rian Thum will be at UCLA Nov 10 talking about his impressive new book, Islamic China: An Asian History www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/1...international.ucla.edu UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies fosters interdisciplinary research and public engagement on the Middle East and North Africa, promoting academic events, language training, and educational pro... 062
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Seal suffrage gets very little attention on this side of the pond! 010
Reposted by Jay CarterBathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...m.youtube.comRescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful stormYouTube video by PBS NewsHour 16731
Reposted by Jay CarterForeign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 19/10/2025“How did American democracy become so dysfunctional, even as it became more participatory?” Read Julia Azari’s 2019 essay on the forces fueling the United States’ political crisis: foreignaffairs.comIt’s the Institutions, StupidThe real cause of America's dysfunctional politics lies in the mismatch between the United States’ political institutions and its political realities. 2104
Reposted by Jay CarterDashingclaire @dashingclaire.bsky.social · 13/10/2025No spiritual comfort #Chicago 88131
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025The arrow was purportedly from the 1813 attack, but Betsy (never one to mince words) pointed out to the guide that the arrow was on the wrong side of the wall: the rebels had not reached that side. Apparently--so the story goes--the next time she returned to that courtyard, the arrow was gone. 2/2 030
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025My favorite story about this event is connected with Betsy Bartlett, one of my thesis advisors. She made a living in the 80s guiding tours of the Forbidden City, and one day eavesdropped on a Chinese tour guide pointing out an arrow that was lodged in the wall of the Palace...1/2 210
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025It's not just the Rapture! Millenarian movements seeking to bring about the end of days: This Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden City www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...sinicapodcast.comThis Week in China's History: Eight Trigrams Rebellion Attacks the Forbidden CityOctober 9, 1813 1104
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 13/10/2025But also it was bad right? My sense was that it flopped (but I have no actual idea) 000
Reposted by Jay CarterJeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 12/10/2025Excellent piece in @theguardian.com on the recent wave of youth protests in Asia and Africa www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... that brings in popular culture & history in thoughtful waystheguardian.comThe Guardian view on gen Z protests: these movements share more than an interest in anime | EditorialEditorial: A new global wave of unrest is unfolding, driven by generational discontents and taking cues from each other 01612
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I didn’t know what to expect from One Battle After Another…but i didn’t expect so burst into tears in the last scene…. 010
Reposted by Jay CarterMaura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Two big new essays for fans of @yangyangcheng.bsky.social this week! At @chinabooksreview.com, she writes about new @bairuiwen.bsky.social translations of two novels by Fang Fang ...chinabooksreview.comNo Country for a Woman | China Books ReviewWomen in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression… 263
Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 07/10/2025I thought this was strong but I saw your point. …but I thought you meant Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas… 110
