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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14h

Wondering if any university instructors are actively promoting their classes as AI-Free yet

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 06/09/2026

Muted a Big Account and unfollowed the one that dragged the bad discourse into my feed, clearing up nicely

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 06/09/2026

Wow the discourse on here is bad today

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 26/08/2026

After a great Spring semester reading Jin Ping Mei with some talented undergrads and grads, we're doing it again with Journey to the West! I'll be reading the revised Yu translation and the newish Xinhua edition of the original Chinese, looking forward to both.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The politicization & illegal cancellation of federal research funding is an existential crisis for every research university in the country, especially flagship R1 publics. Again, you would think university presidents would speak up, loudly & collectively, about this. Alas. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/08/2026

I’m curious, is it common in Philosophy to go from postdoc to postdoc, STEM style, after getting a PhD?

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EA Strom @profmisterlizzie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Faculty don’t have lounges.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/08/2026

Where is this "faculty lounge" they keep talking about, anyway?

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 27/07/2026

Harvard's online CS50x Intro to Computer Science course is brilliant, you battle through C until you switch to the higher-level Python in Week 6. When you get there, it's such a relief, but you have a better understanding of what's going on under the hood.

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Now available! Tracing the evolution of poetry’s role in Chinese society, WRITING EMPIRE AND SELF uncovers the profound cultural changes that took place in the early medieval era. buff.ly/aDU4pf7 #Poetry #EastAsia #History

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/07/2026

Finally got my hands on this, favorite sinological book in a while

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 05/06/2026

Has anyone read the Martin Palmer translation of Three Kingdoms? How does it compare to Roberts?

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Elena Existing @elenaexisting.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Where are my Journey to the West/ 西游记 fans? I have a question: In Chapter 54, in the Country of Women, there's a scene where Sun Wukong promises that Tang Sanzang will marry the queen, as a way of stalling for more time. The monk gets upset at him for this and Wukong gives a little speech:

”行者道：“你若使住法儿不允他，他便不肯倒换关文，不放我们走路。倘或意恶心毒，喝令多人，割了你肉，做甚么香袋啊，我等岂有善报？一定要使出降魔荡怪的神通，你知我们的手脚又重，器械又凶，但动动手儿，这一国的人，尽打杀了。他虽然阻当我等，却不是怪物妖精，还是一国人身；你又平素是个好善慈悲的人，在路上一灵不损：若打杀无限的平人，你心何忍，诚为不善了也."

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 21/05/2026

I’m not going to detract from Deep Springs, which is amazing, but please NYT check out what some land grant universities are doing sometime:

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It's what we do: CALES

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Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17/05/2026

There was already controversy about Schmidt on campus on two fronts: First, the allegations against him. Second, the granting of an honorary doctorate upon him that seemed to bypass the usual faculty governance vetting process.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 13/05/2026

We are down three premodern Chinese positions over three years here—two in Buddhism and one in early thought and history….

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 07/05/2026

At a time when everything I read about higher ed is The Ongoing Crisis™--diminishing attention spans, poor literacy, AI threats, cuts, etc--reading a long novel like Plum in the Golden Vase with a handful of smart, motivated undergrad and grad students was just fantastic this semester. Made my year.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 17/04/2026

New Boards of Canada, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Nails (Noize)? In the same week?? What year is it???

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 19/03/2026

I’m curious about MAs in East Asian Studies. If you have a PhD or are working on one, did you get a standalone MA first? Was it required for admission to your PhD program?

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 15/03/2026

New from the innovative CUHK Press, looking forward to reading this one!

Escaping the End of Times by Brigid Vance

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/03/2026

Greeting from Vancouver, Canada, home of the mighty DOA youtu.be/jqR9SQGrlBE

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D.O.A. -- War

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 11/01/2026

名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 02/01/2026

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

⌛For a limited time! Use the code 09WINTER and get 44% off from November 10 to December 5, 2025. 📚 🔗Access to US & Canada: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/ 🔗Access to the rest of the world: mngbookshop.co.uk/publisher/co...

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Association for Asian Studies @asianstudies.org · 05/11/2025

Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity! bit.ly/AAS2026Ming

Announcement for Ming Studies scholars to apply for funding to attend the AAS2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver, deadline December 18, 2025.

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 14/10/2025

U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:

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Assistant Professor, Chinese (TE)

The area of expertise is open, and we are particularly interested in candidates with successful experiences in grant application or grant supported pr...

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 10/09/2025

Playing around with AppleScript to automate boring professor stuff and how did I go so long without doing this?

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 02/09/2025

This would be the end of the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies:

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 25/08/2025

Inside Higher Ed reporting on funding for National Resource Centers like the one here at University of Arizona. If the already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, they are gone and the Center for East Asian Studies will likely close.

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Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk

Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 18/08/2025

We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.

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K. Alexander 亞天恩 @thianun.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy! www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

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Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing

The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) was one of the most destructive wars in Chinese history, with the death toll estimated between twenty and thirty million. What visions did survivors have for restorin...

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Florian Louis @florianlouis.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 01/08/2025

Speaking of Genji, if anyone is interested, the audiobook of the Tyler translation, read by Brian Nishii, is quite good. Somebody please get him to do a Heike audiobook!

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Scott Gregory @xiaoshuoing.com · 11/07/2025

Living for those green smileys... Tideman here I come! #CS50x

Smiley faces indicating CS50 assignment runoff.c is working properly

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