James A. Benn

@jamesabenn.bsky.social

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Medieval Chinese Religions. McMaster Uni. Burning for the Buddha (Hawai'i 2007) pback 2016; Tea in China (Hawai'i, 2015), Chinese trans. 2019. Canadian, obvs.

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Political science 34%

Sociology 34%

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Consineo @consineo.bsky.social · 2h

At the White Cloud Temple (白云观) in #Beijing

#monochrome #blackandwhite #photography #urbangaze
#blacknwhite #bnw #blackandwhitephotography
#cityscape #China #bnw_zone #streetphotography
#architecture #urbanphotography

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 2h

Taking a moment from #aarsbl25 to celebrate this recently award-winning #hongkong film #Queerpanorama 眾生相. #Queer and #Buddhist at the same time (each trans-boundary encounter contributes to the making of the protagonist’s sense of identity).

#goldenhorse #filmsky #moviesky #buddhism

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 3h

Silk scarf worn #onthisday in 1952 by Second Lieutenant Christopher "Kit" Hoare, 21, of the Royal Fusiliers when he was killed in action while leading a nighttime raid on a Chinese position in Kigong-Ni during the Korean War. Only 7 out of 21 men in his platoon survived. #OTD 📷 Imperial War Museum

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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 3h

Suffering from the sniffles? Here's a recipe to make a "fine tablet for the cough and coold" from our 18th century herbal notebook.

handwritten recipe for a cough tablet using sugar, aniseed and ginger

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School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomsalc.bsky.social · 3h

Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize
The prize recognises the celebrates the achievements of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition.
For the full story, visit our website:

University of Manchester Modern Languages Academic wins 2025 Philip Leverhulme Prize

Dr Ed Pulford, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies (SALC) at the University of Manchester, has been awarded the Philip Leverhulme prize in the Languages and Literatures category. The Leverhulme Trust administered awards commemorate the work undertaken by Philip, Third Viscount Leverhulme and grandson of William Lever, founder of the Trust.The pri...

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 3h

🚨THIS WEEK TO PATREON AND APPLE🚨 Samurai honour? Hollywood nonsense. 🎥🙄
@matt-okuhara.bsky.social dismantles the movie myth that Japan’s warriors turned their backs on guns. Turns out, the truth is far more explosive… 💣

🎧 Catch the full episode! www.patreon.com/post...
#Samurai #Japan

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 3h

Black British Voices: Black British Collections.

Cambridge University Library is forming a community panel of Black British & Black Northern Irish individuals to help shape its 2027 exhibition & events programme.

🗓️ Deadline: 14 Dec 2025
🔗More info: https://loom.ly/9lDrGVY

Black British Voices: Black British Collections

Join a community panel to shape Cambridge University Library's 2027 public exhibition and programme

www.lib.cam.ac.uk

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 8h

#DOTD: Hu Zongxian 胡宗憲 (1512–1565), Chinese Ming 明 military official, fighter of Japanese pirates 倭寇, and direct ancestor of former Secretary General of the Communist Party and President of China, Hu Jintao 胡錦濤. #籌海圖編 #EarlyModernChina

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 8h

#BOTD: Ba Jin 巴金 (1904–2005), né Li Yaotang 李堯棠, Chinese anarchist writer who also wrote in Esperanto and is most renowned for his semi-autobiographical novel 'The Family' 家. #ChineseLiterature #ModernChina

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18h

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

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North American Association for the Study of Religion @naasr.bsky.social · 1d

NAASR has finally finished up its 2025 Annual Meeting!

Thank you to all of our panelists for participating and sharing their work.

Thank you to Prof. Tomoko Masuzawa for giving our keynote address.

Until next time! #naasr2025 #naasr25 #aarsbl2025

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 1d

#DOTD age 38: Liu Boming #劉伯明 (1887–1923), first Chinese to obtain a doctorate in #philosophy, contributor to #CriticalReview #學衡 journal. Notable publication: Outline of Western #Ancient and #Medieval Philosophy 西洋 #古代 #中世 #哲學史大綱. #ChinesePhilosophy #ModernChina

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 2d

Authors! If you’re having a book panel at #AARSBL25, we’d love to celebrate you. Plz feel free to get in touch with me if you & your co-panelists would like to transform the #book panel into a review roundtable in the #JAAR!

@aarweb.bsky.social

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Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social · 2d

At Pentonville at 9 am #OnThisDay in 1910 John Ellis executed the murderer of Cora Crippen. That decade he also hanged poisoner Frederick Seddon and Sir Roger Casement, whilst he played an executioner in a drama on the life of Charlie Peace in 1927. #CM150 #OTD #onthisdayinhistory #medhist

Two pages of a tall thin prescription ledger showing medicines issued by Crippen on 24 and 25 January 1894, whilst he was still working as a homeopath in the USA. Cora's torso was found to have been poisoned with the drug hyoscine and so before his trial a British doctor checked this ledger and its pair to ensure Crippen had not also been poisoning people with that chemical in the USA.

James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 2d

Important thread

𝑪. 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒆́ @christinedaae.bsky.social · 2d

I lied. Put your clothes back on. We’re going to talk about how there are actually female scholars within Confucianism who contributed significantly to Chinese literature, philosophy, and history, and their accomplishments are worthy of note and should be studied just as much as the men

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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 2d

Aujourd’hui avec @alexjubelin.bsky.social on reçoit
@elietenenbaum.bsky.social pour évoquer la rébellion du Dhofar 1970s, et la contre-insurrection des SAS britanniques
Un moment passionnant de l’histoire, où un mouvement de gauche arabe défiait l’ordre et l’impérialisme.

youtu.be/V3-9tm92LBI?...

À ma gauche, une combattante du PFLOAG, communiste, féministe, émancipateur

À ma droite, le sultan Qabus et cette ordure de Thatcher

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 2d

Out now from NYRB Classics - Time Tunnel: Stories and Essays by Eileen Chang, translated from the Chinese by Karen S. Kingsbury and Jie Zhang.

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 2d

#OTD in 1008, #Song #宋 Emperor Zhenzong 真宗 (r. 997–1022) performs the Feng Shan #封禪 sacrifice to Heaven & Earth on Mount Tai #泰山, one of five sacred mountains of #ImperialChina. Only six emperors personally performed these rites in #ChineseHistory, Zhenzong being the last.

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Victoria Haddock @vickyhaddock.bsky.social · 2d

Artist and designer Romain de Tirtoff, known by the pseudonym Erté, was born #OnThisDay in 1892. He designed this blue silk velvet cloak, decorated with marabou feathers and metallic thread embroidery, for Ganna Walska in a production of Manon. LACMA collection. #fashionhistory

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · 2d

Our new podcast episode on #HoPWaG is the first of a mini-series on the Daoist classic, the Zhuangzi! We start by asking in what sense this is a "skeptical" work.

www.historyofphilosophy.net/zhuangzi-ske...

#podcast #daoism #philsky #philosophy

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𝑪. 𝑫𝒂𝒂𝒆́ @christinedaae.bsky.social · 2d

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Ryan Richard Overbey @overbey.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering if Princeton University Press pays royalties to their author “The Buddha,” writer of the books _How to Lose Yourself_ and _How to Feel_. #aarsbl25

AAR conference by Princeton University Press, with authors listed alphabetically. Two books in the list give their author as “The Buddha”

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Worn On This Day @wornonthisday.bsky.social · 3d

Worn #onthisday in 1963 by Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, who were riding in the car with President John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated in Dallas, TX. The governor was shot in the back but recovered. #OTD @gettyimages.com @tslac.bsky.social

James A. Benn @jamesabenn.bsky.social · 3d

Right?

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Donovan Schaefer @feelingtheory.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to participating in roundtable discussions of two wonderful books at #AARSBL this weekend! Myrna Perez's *Criticizing Science: Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy* and Ting Guo's *Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China*!

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Laurence Westwood @lwestwoodauthor.bsky.social · 4d

#histbookchat #sinology New arrival! The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China by Ruixue Jia & Hongbin Li (2025) - supplied by Aunty Lesley of @bridgebooksdromore.bsky.social who was awarded her English degree after reading only one book (Great Gatsby) just to stop her rabbiting on about it