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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A timely talk by Professor Klaus Muehlhahn in ShanghaiTech University on 8 September: Beyond the Black Hole: How Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 上海的小伙伴请考虑参加:-)

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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I am humbled to share my newly published essay (金庸与剑桥大学的书缘和情缘) about Dr. Louis Cha, Honorary Fellow of both Robinson and St John’s Colleges. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues Judith (Robinson), Miki, Beth, and Elmo at @AMES_Library for their kind support.

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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Super happy to share the news on behalf of the team for the Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge University Library: our Hopkins Oracle Bones (2D set CUL1–610) and 50 3D images are now freely accessible to the world. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Cambridge PhD students: please consider this great opportunity to use the Chinese collections at UCSD library for your PhD studies, under the WongAvery Visiting Scholar Exchange Programme. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. For details, please see: library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

pleased to report both of my monographs are now on sales–– Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00. www.cambridge.org/core/books/w... Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Reading amazing scholarship like this makes you wonder to what extent the 1911/12 divide is still applicable to modern Chinese history!

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De Gruyter Brill Asian Studies @dgb-asianstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋 We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies. We can’t wait to connect with you all!

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China Bin Xu (Emory) Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt) Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley) Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Back to reading and finished this new translation of the history of the Republic of China (originally in French). Very strong synthesis of the economic, political, social, and cultural in the last four chapters. Less focused on the revolutionary narrative.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Conference on “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” on May 19 & May 21 in Göttingen, co-organized by Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) and Wang Hui (Tsinghua), which will be featured with a range of renowned artists, writers, and scholars. Programs below.

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History of South China Workshop @southchinahistory.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢 We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford! 📅Deadline 9th May 📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Looking forward to my talk on the history of emotions at City University of Hong Kong on 9 April! So exciting to visit Hong Kong after so many years…

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Ta-Nehisi in town. What a treat!

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Coraline Jortay 喬海霖 @qiaoj.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Permanent academic positions in Asian studies/history soon to open for applications in France in this job cycle, a 🧵 👇 1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4) sciences.re/postes/media...

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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Our database on periodicals from the late Qing and Republican era has surpassed 10,000 views! Even recently, I’ve continued to receive positive feedback on how useful and convenient it is. This is truly encouraging, and I will be adding more titles soon. See: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...

Index database on periodicals from Late Qing and Republican eras.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Book received, and intrigued by the topic. Looking forward to reading it! @mihatsch.bsky.social

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It's a great honour to be on board!

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Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Over 200 East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals (1850-1950) on Internet Archive. A total of over 378,000 issues. All of these can be downloaded as PDFs. archive.org/details/east...

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Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The legendary “Moss on Stone” is back! 👏👏👏

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Street scene. Found on a rainy day in Cambridge while walking…

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Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁 tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 04/12/2024

I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)

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Davide Cadeddu @davidecadeddu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

#CarloGinzburg will speak about Italian historicism, #microhistory and global history at the University of Milan on Wednesday 4 December 2024

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Great exhibition about a significant moment in history! — Whipple Museum in Cambridge.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Intellectual History & Friends Part 3 is here! Do let me know if there is anyone I should add or if you would like to be added go.bsky.app/MX1ZBPL

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Looking forward to Professor Ying Zhang's talk at the China Seminar in Cambridge this coming Thursday! China Research Seminar – November 28th , 2024, 14:00, room 8/9 FAMES Speaker: Ying Zhang (Leiden University) Title: The Politics of Idealism in Ming China (1368-1644)

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YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Dear learned colleagues in the fields of China and Asia studies: We warmly invite you to submit your outstanding essay manuscripts to The Chinese Historical Review (CHR): www.tandfonline.com/journals/ytc... Instructions for Authors: www.tandfonline.com/action/autho...

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Learn about The Chinese Historical Review aims & scope, editorial board, journal metrics and more.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

New to Bluesky, so I thought I'd reintroduce my work! My first monograph, World History and National Identity in China, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. It explores #IntellectualHistory, #Historiography, #Nationalism, and the development of the #WorldHistory discipline in China.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The scene before a Cambridge college formal dinner…

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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Since 2019, Leiden University Libraries digitized 100.000 pages of Chinese unofficial poetry edu.nl/v3jwg. On November 22, at 3:15 PM (CET), a symposium will celebrate this milestone and the genre. Register to attend in person, or join the livestream on the day edu.nl/6q9jd. Details: edu.nl/mmka3.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

#VirginiaWoolf ‘s advice to Ling Shuhua on how to write English as Chinese: … to come as close to the Chinese both in style and in meaning as you can. Give as many natural details of the life, of the house, of the furniture as you like. And always do it as you would were you writing for the Chinese.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Reading Hu Shi’s letter to his friend’s kid, and deeply touched by his profound humanity! “You are a very good child. Don’t worry about not making progress, and don’t work too hard!” 你是很好的孩子，不怕没有进步，不可太用功！ We all need uncle Hu Shi 😀

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Ok, I wrote about this in our special issue. A government staffed with “good people” was proposed by liberal intellectuals in 1920s-China…Well, sadly, it didn’t work out. See “Making Sense of the Political in Twentieth-Century China” by yours truly www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Primary sources are at the center of historical studies. I am finding few librarians on this new platform. Trying to compile a list of people who really know their sources in East Asian Studies. Myself shall not be included… it’s a small list for now. Hope it will grow! go.bsky.app/QwwMe2

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Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The online exhibition War, Revolution, and the Heart of China, 1937–1948: The Herman Collection of Modern Chinese Woodcuts from Colgate University’s University Museum contains 213 interesting digitised woodcuts in total. emuseum.colgate.edu/groups/herma...

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Useful pack for the history of humanities!

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Konrad Lawson @kml.muninn.net · 17/11/2024

Uploaded another old Hong Kong magazine: 家庭與婦女 1964.2.10. I find these magazines interesting for their depictions of domestic life and normative views around family, gender, & occasionally beyond. On IA here (better quality zoom still slow, but PDF download is there): archive.org/details/jiat... 🀄️📚

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Indeed, not only are they a great idea, but also a people’s great idea👌

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Online talk on the making of national heritage in the Department of Archeology at Cambridge this coming Wednesday.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

go.bsky.app/2msAb8c Testing starters packs function and created two. But finding they are highly unstable, unable to add more people to both lists… Up to a point the page starts shaking… Have you encountered similar problems?

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Talk on 陳寅恪 at my faculty. Chen is such a profound figure but difficult to study. Glad someone is working on it. Looking forward to the event on Thursday!

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

discussed Andrés Rodriguez’s fascinating book on ethnographic identification in the XiKang region during the Republican period with the author and students in Cambridge this past Wednesday. Another significant work that helps unravel the complex knowledge systems that have shaped China.

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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hi there. Just landed. Who is here?

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