Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Honored to have my writing appeared at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!! I thank the editors and @kant.bsky.social’s feedback on the earlier drafts. 061 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayJMWW Journal @jmwwjournal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025"Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner,... I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Japanese." Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...jmwwblog.wordpress.comCreative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian TsayUntil those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner, I had become so accustomed to being treated like an equal that I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Ja… 041 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 09/04/2025This French textbook assigned a text written by an English native speaker arguing that it is not necessary to learn French that hard bc English has dominated the French society…. 000 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayInalco @inalco.fr · 25/02/2025📌 Ateliers, conférences et projections pour explorer la richesse de ce patrimoine vivant Pour en savoir plus : www.inalco.fr/actualites/l...inalco.frLa société taïwanaise contemporaine et son système de savoir-faire du "Pòo-tē-hì" (théâtre de marionnettes à gaine) : évolution, innovation, taïwanisation | Institut National des Langues et Civilisati... 023 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 06/03/2025A few months ago I replied "はい" to a French person and a few days ago I said "Oui" to a Japanese person...when will this mingling of languages stop 🫣 040 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 20/02/2025www.nippon.com/ja/news/yjj2...nippon.com戦前・戦中の経済誌公開＝１９２８～４５年、９００冊―新聞通信調査会公益財団法人「新聞通信調査会」（西沢豊理事長）は１９日、主に戦前・戦中に刊行されていた週刊経済誌「国際経済週報… 続きを読む → 051 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayDavid Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!waseda.jpAcademic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic FacultyThe Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty... 210081 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 16/02/2025My experiences with any random Japanese cuisine in Tainan has been great so far. 000 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 12/02/2025www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/978481...kyoto-up.or.jpコナコーヒーのグローバル・ヒストリー（飯島 真里子）| 京都大学学術出版会世界的に高品質として知られるハワイ島のコナコーヒー。200年にわたる栽培史には、日英米帝国の植民地的権力、アジア、ラテンアメリカからの労働移民と変化し続ける人種秩序、コーヒーの世界市場など、人・モノ・概念・技術のグローバルな〈移動〉が絡み合う。「周縁」の太平洋の島を結節点として捉え返すグローバル・ヒストリーの試み。 000 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayEri Kitada (北田依利) @eriktd.bsky.social · 12/02/2025つ、ついに！https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814005673.html?lang=jp 221 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 10/02/2025About to submit my dissertation but stuck at like 3 bibliography entries’ page numbers lol. 150 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Watched a five-hour documentary this afternoon plus one hour Q&A with the director and I think I deserve a treat 😴 030 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Very honored to have my first poem published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social! 020 0
Reposted by Lillian TsaySayaka Chatani @sayakachatani.bsky.social · 08/01/2025A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already! japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...japaneseempire.infoThe Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze - Grassroots Operations of the Japanese EmpireIntroduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Japan seized Germany’s territories in the North Pacific, having invoked its formal alliance with t... 14017 0
Reposted by Lillian TsaySascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point. 257138372104 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 04/01/20253 Body Problem’s opening is pretty striking and accurate IMO. As a non-specialist, I heard that the reality was way crueler than the show’s depiction… 010 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 04/01/2025“Farewell my Concubine” but it’s over 2 hours and not all the film is about CR, but the depiction of it is pretty striking. 000 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/12/20247-11 and Family Mart’s coffee are actually pretty decent with a fair price imo, at least better than Japan’s. 120 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayJan Eijking @janeijking.com · 06/12/2024Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...hsozkult.deBusiness History and ImperialismThere is a rich historiography within business history that engages with imperialism and colonialism and the projection of extra-territorial power explicit in imperial interactions (for recent example... 095 0
Reposted by Lillian TsayVictor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social · 20/11/2024How do those who reside in Urban Heat Islands cope with escalating temperatures? Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia #histstm #sts #envhist 0117 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 08/11/2024A very good time to watch the show The Good Fight. 000 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Tremendous thanks to the lady who gave me 30NTD on the bus bc I forgot to bring my card and don’t have any coins 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏 030 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/12/2023Episode 3 now. Favorite character(s) so far are the camels 🐫🐫🐫 000 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 22/12/2023Yeah and it’s so much like Hanzawa Naoki 😂 not just bc they have the same actor. The pacing is a bit weird in the middle but I like the ending scene of Mongolian landscape (hope this doesn’t count as spoilers!) 010 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Yeah the opening scene was a bit incomprehensible, the ending scene is much better though! Heard mixed responses for this one so I'm just watching it out of curiosity (also to find something to watch when eating at home) 110 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 21/12/2023Finished the first episode of VIVANT -- dunno which is the main purpose of the show: expressing Japanese nationalism or promoting tourism to (a fictional) Mongolia?! Also, dunno if all the Japanese actors spoke in actual Mongolian bc if they did then it's really impressive! 200 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 29/11/2023For instance, when I'm watching the show I feel that the producers are really trying to critique Western white imperialism. Many reviews say this show is "anti-colonial." This is fair, but putting this message in the context of Edo Japan (albeit a fictional one) is...an interesting choice. 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 29/11/2023Yeah, and I agree that there is that difference between orientalizing oneself in Asia (I see this happening a lot in China too nowadays, they just haven't theorized it yet) and the way Asian Americans do it...all interesting questions though! 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 29/11/2023The interesting thing is that one producer is Japanese American and the director is Taiwanese American. They admitted that what they’re doing is writing their own experiences of racism and ideals of diversity to a fictional Edo Japan, so it’s probably more than just “Orientalism.” 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 28/11/2023I actually saw a positive review from a historian of France...! But maybe he's being kind lol 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 28/11/2023I'm glad my guess was not wrong! The show portrayed the daimyo's daughter growing up in Kyoto so that drew my attention. 010 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 28/11/2023It's basically portraying Japan in 1657 as a country that had never seen guns, and one character even referred to the bakufu as an "empire"; a white character saying stuff that should be said in the 19th century, not the 17th century, but maybe I'm too critical for a fictional show! 110 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 28/11/2023Thanks for the informative response! I'm really learning a lot. I gave up historical accuracies after the first episode but I think as a military historian you'll cringe even more if you watch the final episode... 110 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Oh no my bad lol! As you said, there was slight chance in 1657. I'm happy with the modern echo chamber but a small space place in my heart wants to do some early modern stuff, although it's probably better to stay where I am... 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023😂 Sorry I should have asked with a clearer premise! But thanks to the misunderstanding (?) I'm learning lots of things I didn't know about the Edo period. Jeez, now I'm more than certain that I'll stay in my modern echo chamber...(speaking as if I have other choices lol) 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023, and he was born in a time of war, not the Edo period of course. I think I was more curious in what circumstances could a peasant's son rose to the status of a daimyo during the Edo period. Thanks again! I've learned a lot. 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023 (I didn't state in the questions but the show was pretty specific that this was 1657) for a daimyo to have a father coming from a peasantry background. As an outsider in the field, I only know one case and that is Hideyoshi although he wasn't technically a peasant... 200 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Hi thanks again for the explanation and the screenshot. My original intention to ask the question was not based on the assumption that daimyos must come from the lineages they claimed to be but whether there were means of social stratification in the Edo period 210 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 27/11/2023Wow, thank you for the detailed thread! I certainly knew none of these besides Hideyoshi. So are you suggesting that theoretically it is very possible that many daimyos came from all sorts of occupations (including peasantry), but we don't have much proof bc of the lack of documentation? 100 0
Lillian Tsay @lilliantsay.bsky.social · 26/11/2023Hey actually I’m very curious about this, do you have an example? Thanks! 100 0
