La Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Reconnue d'utilité publique le 9 mai 2006, la Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé oeuvre à la conservation et à la mise à disposition du public du patrimoine historiq...

Rights groups fear the new law gives Beijing legal authority to go after people beyond its borders.

Nationalism Research in the Humanities (NARS) Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence, Tampere University subproject, organises the first NARS Conference May 12-14, 2027 in Tampere, Finland.

Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...

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

Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...

In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.

The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to deal with the “craze.” While it began as a form of leisure for surfers whe...

The “High Tang” is the period long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This book is the first translation into any language of the only extant anthology compiled contemporaneously that was solely devoted to poetry composed during that period. It contains 230 poems by 24 different poets and was completed around 753, providing a rare contemporary view of what one well-informed reader considered the best verse of the age. The selections are of poems in various lengths, forms, and styles. The poets represented include most of those recognized since then as the greatest writers of the time, as well as those who seem largely forgotten now but who were in their own day held in equally high regard.

The discourse of travel, society, and nation in Republican China

Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s tribute to Lynn Pan, acclaimed author and chronicler of Shanghai, reflecting on her intellectual curiosity, literary legacy, and enduring influence on global Chinese diaspora stu...

"Women's Fist-ism" (女拳) is a derogatory Chinese internet term that weaponizes wordplay—replacing "rights" (权) with "fist" (拳) in "feminism"—to portray women's rights advocates as aggressive man-haters...