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I work on medieval Chinese literature, calligraphy, book history, and material culture. PhD in Chinese, UC Berkeley. Professor.

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Mark Tingay @mudvolcanoguy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan had a minor eruption starting around 3am today at vents near the mud volcano temple. It last erupted in July 2026 and has had numerous small eruptions in the last few years. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the temple caretaker.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The little orb I installed above my bookshelf to glow whenever someone remembers to #namethetranslator is incandescent this morning.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Speaking of which…
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Setting aside the fact that no book club would ever be able to hold this in their hands, this translation of Lu Xun’s selection of strange tales from the Tang and Song would work great. www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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Anthology of Tang and Song Tales
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The criterion of “slimness” is more about the satisfaction that comes from reading whole works.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In a zany twist of fate, we are currently reading on this timeline.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You are on Earth between now and 2060.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hmm. After a group finishes the book it dissolves and a new group forms. You stay.
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David Stroup @davidstroup.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Did you see the story about the group who’ve been having a very intensive and slowly moving (like, a page or two at a time) book club on Finnegan’s Wake for years? Feels like a similar scenario. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
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‘It never ends’: the book club that spent 28 years reading Finnegans Wake
The group in Venice, California, started the difficult James Joyce book in 1995. They reached its final page in October
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not asking for favorite book. Not asking for best book ever.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You have to run a book club around the same book with a rotating group of strangers in the park every year until the oceans boil. Ideally slim enough to finish in a season and talk about as a whole. Which book would you tire of most slowly?
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Hard to talk about quantity in the abstract, as well. The higher the “friction” the reader will experience, the less I feel I can assign. Biggest change post COVID is that trying to figure out in advance what will cause friction has become almost impossible.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’ve been teaching 70/30 FYS-to-upper-division-student lit surveys at SLACs from 2020 on and have cut daily reading by half on average… and still get complaints about too much reading. (For reference I teach MWF and never exceed 50 pages for a single class, and usually assign around 20)
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
When you say you have no idea of the reading pace of FYS “now,” what do you mean? How long ago was “then”?
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
No, no promises. Can’t find the thread which was ages ago but I think I asked if you made cognition is a disease merch what would it be and you said water spritzer bottle and I have hoped it would be a reality ever since
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I really hope @bitdizzy.bsky.social makes their “cognition is a disease” water spritzer bottle, windowsill garden in my bleak little office will not be complete without it 🙏
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
An archive of Chinese cigarettes — 3,200+ SKUs across 200+ brands with pack imagery and graphic design history.
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中国卷烟博物馆 · Chinese Cigarette Museum
The only comprehensive English-language archive of Chinese cigarettes — 3,200+ SKUs across 200+ brands with pack imagery, specs, pricing, and ratings. Browse Zhonghua, Panda, Liqun, Yellow Crane Tower, and thousands more.
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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 30/06/2026
We are saddened to learn that lifetime AAS member Victor H. Mair has passed away. Professor Mair was a mainstay at our Annual Conferences and co-author of the Key Issues in Asian Studies title "Traditional China in Asian and World History." AAS sends condolences to his family and colleagues.
A white-haired man browsing books at a University of California Press booth in a busy indoor book fair.Three men engaged in conversation at a conference or trade show with booths and informational displays in the background.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
POV from heaven for the raccoon. Earth for the rest of you.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Yep. If I cannot read all text on the slide in 10 seconds, I cut it down. It’s kind of a fun writing exercise.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Brewery cat party > chronic depression party ❤️
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strawberry garfield @bbburgerrr.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
i can’t stop watching this vid of dan deacon doing the anthem before the orioles game yesterday it just gets better and better and all the crowd shots are golden
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Keith Fitzgerald @keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
brad lander primary chuck schumer
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Watched this way too late at night alone in a dark room with good headphones on that picked up the extremely dense soundtrack and when her face changed, I felt an electric pulse shoot through my entire body. I have never experienced that kind of fear watching a movie.
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
For academics & scholars who've uploaded papers to Academia, this message I received this morning should be of major concern. I'll delete my account, but I assume damage is done & they've already scraped everything of mine. Should stand as a warning about sharing one's work on commercial websites
Screen grab from website Academia.edu, with message "An AI created a podcast of your paper," the label "Private to you," and a button to listen to the podcast
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Markus Samuel Haselbeck 趙澤煊 @ciaota.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Happy to share the schedule for our upcoming workshop on #revenge in #China next week at KU Leuven. Looking forward to working with so many great scholars of Chinese #philosophy, literature, law, and history. Gonna be a great time with #伍子胥, #謝小娥, #公羊學, and much more! #sinology
Poster for our Workshop on RevengePresentations on July 1, 2025Presentations on July 2, 2025
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Same. Back when I was studying for quals, his 史记 biography was one of the texts I tried to memorize in full. I always teach it with video of the tidal bore at Qiantang.
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ceej @ceej.online · 01/10/2024
We're so lucky that all states are rational actors
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Le Ca-ghoul @lecagle.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
See the problem with genAI "translations" of literature is that they will rob us of the frisson that comes with encountering a perfect beautiful metaphor in the wild. Anyway, please read this. defector.com/toward-a-the...
Why do this crap? I think that I would be embarrassed. I think that after I'd gassed up cryptocurrency and NFTs in the New York Times and told New York Times readers that the Bing search engine was trying to steal me away from my wife, I would have asked my editor if maybe I could cover the Broadway beat for a while instead of continuing to smirk at the world while pouring fire ants down the front of my shorts for a living. So: Why do it? But also: How?
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
(This corresponds to the Warring States-era “Myriad Schools” 百家 unit in the course for anyone curious. All we do is parse arguments for the 2.5 weeks leading up to the assignment.)
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I used to assign an argumentative essay straight out the gate in my lit survey course. Last year I changed that first assignment to a lengthy paraphrase of an argument that turned on a close reading of a single sentence. Asking them to turn around and challenge their own paraphrase is brilliant.
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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This gyre is looking awfully wide
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Notorious RBMK @comraderobot.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
yes i am sure
tvos app text:

Are you sure you want to exit HISTORY?
Ok
Cancel
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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 22/06/2025
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Americans love being part of something bigger than themselves. Sports team fandom, mega churches… just nothing that will substantially change their material circumstances or risk bringing the hammer of the state power down on their heads.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Sounds like you found Gregor.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Wait, the question is which movie has “more” terrible sequels and not which movie had sequels as bad as the Jaws sequels, right? In that case, it’s gotta be Halloween. Arguably at least one sequel made sense, but not 12…
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Humectant is the solid state of 18th C empiricism.
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Truckstop Vigilante @brenthor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Firing a scattergun into the air to signal to my most beautiful uncle that bud light lime has been restocked at the liquor store. Two return shots mean he heard me, three means he is in distress
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 20/06/2025
I admit that I didn’t have “the only government to show concern over AI is the Vatican” on my 2025 bingo card.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
You can spawn as police or boss (see below) or both (management).
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
But you can’t raise two trillion dollars to fund the production of a database with a chat function.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Great point. The talk by the AI evangelist I mentioned in my thread shuttled wildly back and forth between two claims. 1) AI is already better than you at what you do and it WILL replace you and 2) AI is a tool that might make some of the things you do easier and faster, depending on what you do.
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CE @siegeweather.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
I need to check it out.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Tell me how well a machine can interpret historical sources for you, and I’ll tell you how mechanical your interpretation of historical sources already is.
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