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Japan Past & Present @jppinfo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Online registration is now open for Japan Past & Present’s symposium, "Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan," to be held at UCLA with virtual streaming from October 2–3, 2026. japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...

A poster with a white background overlaid with close-ups from a medieval Japanese map, showing foliage, roads, and a small structure. The title of the symposium is displayed with logos for the Yanai Initiative and Japan Past & Present. The titles read: Rural Medieval: Tabihikitsuke & Sixteenth-century Japan 中世の村──『旅引付』と16世紀の日本

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

It is definitely more "ECM" than some of his other efforts on the label. It even has a cello instead of a bass! You've probably heard, but my favourite playing of his as a sideman is The Rub and Spare Change. I am hot and cool with Tim Berne, but that is a phenomenal album.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Speaking of, not sure how much you dig ECM but have you listened to the new Taborn album?

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

great kindness and respect toward all of us undergraduates at Penn when you were a PhD there set a really great model for us of how these spaces could be non-hierarchal, and I certainly carried that experience/attitude with me to my PhD.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

That makes perfect sense. Almost too many panels this year--I hardly bumped into anyone from the China field, unfortunately. I evacuated Harvard years ago (currently living in Montreal) but will be heading to Yale for a postdoc starting in the fall. You are probably unaware of this, but your

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I had not known you would be there. I would have liked to say hello in person after all these years!

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Just saying, it isn't a surprise given those factors. No need for the snark.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Japan has three times the population of Canada and is a major global destination for skiing and snowboarding. Japan is also the snowiest country in the world, fyi.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Maybe try giving the one before this a try

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Be sure to cap off the night with Charms of the Night Sky!

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

You probably saw it, but they put this one on a t-shirt at UNIQLO a few years back. I was surprised they didn't just default to Point of Departure.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Coincidentally, I also listened to this yesterday. I was apparently in the mood for endless renditions of Surrey with a Fringe on Top, so I cycled between this, Miles, and OP and then ended up listening to Porgy & Bess albums all night.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

I spend a lot of time with Bill these days...

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

You watch the youtube interview 私が共産党員から保守系言論人になった理由〜藤岡信勝〜 yet?

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Congratulations, Kurtis. Olomouc seems like such a cool place to live, and there is so much to explore in the broader region! I am sure you will love it.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Jazz flute is so underrated.

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Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My first article, which critiques the adapatation-resilience development paradigm by tracing its genealogy to prewar Japanese labor science and its influence on everything from austerity policies to anti-air conditioning, is now OA on cssh. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The drums on Frelon Brun off this are probably my favorite in all of Jazz. Wonder what your favorite Williams performance might be?

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Super excited to see this brilliant and incisive critique of resilience discourse in print soon!

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Not an Ian Morris fan, I take it.

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Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

remains of the houses of cave-dwelling people in Shiroyama, Shizuoka (1914)

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This reminds me I'm long overdue to read Hudson's "Conjuring Up Prehistory: Landscape and the Archaic in Japanese Nationalism."

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James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Check out my book at the @ucpress.bsky.social booth at @asianstudies.org in Columbus!

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Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

the dobb-sweezy debate mirrored the existing two "opposing camps in" Japanese history otsuka-school = dobb, unoists (by extension ronoha) = sweezy

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James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We are proud to announce a new Taiwan Studies track of the East Asia MA degree at the University of Washington. This would be the first graduate program in Taiwan Studies in North America and the second in the world. Apply by Jan 31 for fall 2025 admission: jsis.washington.edu/taiwan/acade...

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Academic Programs - Taiwan Studies Program

Taiwan Track in East Asia Studies The Jackson School graduate degree programs in East Asia are being reviewed to be updated into a new degree program: M.A. in East Asia Studies. This new M.A. degree is in the final approval stage and should be granted in the new year in which applicants will choose from various

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Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

whatever one might think of the 'asiatic mode of production,' perry anderson's criticism of it is quite underwhelming

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

and for that reason it is important to grasp the fundamental character/logic of tokugawa as distinct from, say, english feudalism (capitalism emerging from within was the common understanding at the time), because it was those conditions that were inherited and reorganized underneath the new regime

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Yes I understood! But the universal logic narrative is the reason so much ink is spilt on how Japan capitalism HAD TO HAVE emerged from "within" (because that's how history works!) whereas most Koza-ha see Japan as being forcefully integrated into the world system in the bakumatsu.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is precisely what led these authors to argue for "feudal remnants," (almost a proto-articulation of the mode of production theory) as they didn't believe capital or any social structure had a universal logic like the Rono-ha, who insisted feudalism had to disintegrate for capital to be born.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

It isn't like they don't use the term that gets translated as "feudal" (封建社会, actually a Chinese hist. derived term), but they are highly conscious about how this is differentiated by the particularities of Japan hist both domestically and at times of integration/disintegration via the world system

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Maruyama Masao and EH Norman both take from Koza-ha, which is what Otsuka Hisao was also taking from. Hence why he is concerned with the particularity of the social structure derived from material conditions and the social relations they engender rather than insisting on a universalizing logic.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The derivation of the nature/logic of Tokugawa society in its historical particularity rater than seeing it (a la Reischauer or vulgar Marxism) as an instantiation of feudalism.

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Charlotte @chaciav.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I made an economic history/history of capitalism in Asia starter pack since it's fairly underrepresented on the other lists. let me know if you'd like to be added or have any suggestions! go.bsky.app/EdtMMtB

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

I also agree with this. I loved classes as an undergraduate that were primary source forward, but not all classes lend themselves well to this. Moreover, assigned readings can often have copious primary source materials for students to engage with if you choose well.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

I have re-edited this book and it is now ready for publication.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 03/12/2023

I had several professors very upset with me when they opened documents I wrote in Google Docs in MS Word to find so much of the formatting was lost. I swear it was not like that when I submitted the papers! This still happens to me occasionally even intra-MS word. This is why I prefer PDF.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

Since you seem to be on some 安丸良夫 kick, his 日本の近代化についての帝国主義的歴史観 is a great read if you've never looked at it.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 01/12/2023

八郎湖 of course not really existing anymore! For anyone who isn't aware of this, they filled it in.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

Material certainly circulated more readily when there was no international copyright convention! I attached a version of the 1864(3?) map below. The significant difference in map-making quality really stands out, but of course this atlas was kind of a "gold standard."

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Interesting that it seems to be a copy of the map appearing in Mitchell's New General Atlas

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Apologies 😅 I was thinking you meant daimyo at the time of sekigahara. I've been spending my last few years trying to break into that modern echo chamber so I don't think it is such a bad place to be!

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Essentially zero %, as you already figured!

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

1657 would be early enough for it to be technically possible! Maybe doubtful, but technically possible.

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Joshua @jolink.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Once in the Edo period then yes, it becomes essentially impossible, though note the earlier example of the shogun being born to a 町人. I wouldn't be surprised if there is another example like that, which we may not know about even. After all there were a lot of domains, many of which had heir issues.

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