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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 · 20/01/2025

I would translate it as “that Three Ages established by Tang ang Yu.” Sort of creation story here…

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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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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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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Oh, I studied Classics as an undergraduate.

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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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Xin Fan 范鑫 @xinfan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I read half of it but I did not find her writing particularly good.

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

Since the book's publication in 2021, it has received attention among scholars in Chinese Studies and Global Historiography. I thought some issues discussed in this work are still relevant to us today. So, I share it again.

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

Conclusion reflects on the historiographical significance of world-historical studies in China. It highlights its relevance beyond Chinese studies. It challenges the Eurocentric bias in existing world history scholarship, emphasizing its global value.

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

Chapter 5 examines the 1980s and 1990s, a period when ideological control relaxed. Although early debates remained within Marxist frameworks, the lack of theoretical focus in the 90s paradoxically led to a rise in cultural nationalism. A brief history of IHAC will interest many in ancient studies.

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

Chs 4 & 5, the core of the book, focus on the early 1950s. They argue World History became an established discipline due to the state's ambitious agenda of ideological control. However, the imperfections and ambiguities within the ideological system allowed for the rise of diverse research agendas.

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

Ch2 traces the rise of non-Chinese history in the republican period. It started as a professionalisation and specialisation process taking place in the wake of the rise of modern higher education. But the war with Japan interrupted this healthy development giving rise to cultural nationalism.

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

Ch1 challenges conventional view that world history in China was simply a foreign import. By examining early publications, I present a case study showing how the internal dynamics of Confucian classical studies laid the groundwork for the earliest world-historical research among Chinese scholars.

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

The introduction addresses a broad audience beyond Chinese Studies. It raises a key question about control and resistance in a state aiming to dominate historical knowledge. Resistance was possible, as shown in the book; but the unintended consequence was the rise of cultural nationalism.

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

The book has five chapters arranged chronologically. I was able to access some critical primary sources including some university archives that are not easily available today. They offer us a unique way of looking into the dynamics of social production of history knowledge under communist regime.

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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 · 24/11/2024

If historiography included, please add me.

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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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