Joseph Seeley
@josephaseeley.bsky.social
assoc prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Recently published new book Border of Water and Ice is OA! https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49
This watchful owl hits a little different when I'm seeing it on a digital scan and not the paper original, but still, I'll be careful! (Translation: "Warning: please do not put saliva on your fingers to open the pages"--from 1930s library book in Japanese-occupied Korea)
February 5, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This watchful owl hits a little different when I'm seeing it on a digital scan and not the paper original, but still, I'll be careful! (Translation: "Warning: please do not put saliva on your fingers to open the pages"--from 1930s library book in Japanese-occupied Korea)
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I'm excited to announce that my debut novel is going to be published! September 2026!
February 3, 2026 at 2:53 PM
I'm excited to announce that my debut novel is going to be published! September 2026!
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Maybe you've watched (and re-watched, and re-watched again ...) KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, but have you considered what the voices of its characters convey? Donna Lee Kwon examines the film from a voice studies perspective.
What a Voice Studies Perspective Can Tell Us About the Success of KPop Demon Hunters - Association for Asian Studies
By Donna Lee Kwon Born with voices that could drive back the darkness, singing songs of courage and hope. But hunters are more than warriors. Our music ignites the soul and brings people together.…
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January 20, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Maybe you've watched (and re-watched, and re-watched again ...) KPOP DEMON HUNTERS, but have you considered what the voices of its characters convey? Donna Lee Kwon examines the film from a voice studies perspective.
Next Thursday (1/22) at 8:00pm EST I am excited to chair an online discussion with Jung Lee (Ewha) about her new book on Japanese botany in colonial Korea, with Ian Miller (Harvard) as discussant. Welcome all interested in histories of Korea/Japan, plant science, and empire!
mjha.org/event-6304789
mjha.org/event-6304789
Modern Japan History Association - New Books on Japan: "Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea"
mjha.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Next Thursday (1/22) at 8:00pm EST I am excited to chair an online discussion with Jung Lee (Ewha) about her new book on Japanese botany in colonial Korea, with Ian Miller (Harvard) as discussant. Welcome all interested in histories of Korea/Japan, plant science, and empire!
mjha.org/event-6304789
mjha.org/event-6304789
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They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Information in Asia’s War for Empire
Abstract. In 1944, a Japanese American intelligence officer stationed in Ledo, India, unwittingly composed a famous historical document: “Japanese Prisoner
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January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
They fixed it! My article is now open access. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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January 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome.
Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks.
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Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manc...
Manchuria: a “utopia” created by opium [Premium A special] : The Asahi Shimbun
This is the dark history of Manchukuo based on fact. In Manchukuo, which was a puppet state of Japan, opium was rampant, and the sales of opium supported the national finances and were used as funding...
www.asahi.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Interesting mixed medium approach to this Asahi feature on opium and Japanese occupied Manchuria: www.asahi.com/special/manc...
Thankful to Adam Cathcart for his thoughtful review of Border of Water and Ice in the new issue of American Historical Review. Please check out @sino-nk.bsky.social for Adam and colleagues' cutting-edge analysis on the Sino-Korean border and broader PRC-DPRK relations past and present. sinonk.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thankful to Adam Cathcart for his thoughtful review of Border of Water and Ice in the new issue of American Historical Review. Please check out @sino-nk.bsky.social for Adam and colleagues' cutting-edge analysis on the Sino-Korean border and broader PRC-DPRK relations past and present. sinonk.com
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We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic
Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period
Today’s blog by Björn Billing introduces his recent article in Environment and History (online first, December 2025), Visualising Icebergs: Early Modern Depictions, ca 1570–1770 and shows how…
whitehorsepress.blog
December 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We've added a new post to our blog, by Björn Billing on 'Visualising Icebergs in the Early Modern Period'; read it here: whitehorsepress.blog/2025/12/22/v... #envhist @eandhwhp.bsky.social #iceberg #arctic
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Pleased to share the Spring 2026 schedule for the SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ASIA online seminar series @ Harvard!
Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST.
REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪
Talks are over Zoom on Tuesdays, 10:30–11:45 am EST.
REGISTRATION: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #histmed #envhist #envhum #sts 🧪
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
TIL that the animator behind the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which I and many others grew up with, was a former Japanese propagandist who saw WWII's end in the puppet-state of Manchukuo and later worked in China for the CCP, making his first puppet animation about Chiang Kai-shek.
December 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
TIL that the animator behind the 1964 Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which I and many others grew up with, was a former Japanese propagandist who saw WWII's end in the puppet-state of Manchukuo and later worked in China for the CCP, making his first puppet animation about Chiang Kai-shek.
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What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Ad for hunting gear/guns that ran in the Japanese settlers' newspaper 京城日報 in colonized Korea (1925). Many elite male settlers emulated the sporting practice of White hunters (complete with dogs), while Korean access to firearms remained strictly limited.
December 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Ad for hunting gear/guns that ran in the Japanese settlers' newspaper 京城日報 in colonized Korea (1925). Many elite male settlers emulated the sporting practice of White hunters (complete with dogs), while Korean access to firearms remained strictly limited.
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Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Issue no. 4 is out! It features a 'Tracks in the Field' essay, four research articles, plus book reviews!
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Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Another excellent issue of Animal History is now available! This issue includes an exciting article on mules as vital transport in Yunnan 🐎🐂🐂 #animalhistory
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
online.ucpress.edu/ah/article-a...
Excited to dive into this newly published history of Pusan/Fukuoka as "imperial region" bound together by the fluid borderland of the Tsushima Strait. Many congrats to @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social , who will be hosting for a book talk @modernjapanhist.bsky.social in May! mjha.org/event-6433046
November 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Excited to dive into this newly published history of Pusan/Fukuoka as "imperial region" bound together by the fluid borderland of the Tsushima Strait. Many congrats to @hannahjshepherd.bsky.social , who will be hosting for a book talk @modernjapanhist.bsky.social in May! mjha.org/event-6433046
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❄️ Our Winter Sale is here!
Use the code 09WINTER and get 44% off from November 10 to December 5, 2025. 📚
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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...
Order your next favorite title now!
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
❄️ Our Winter Sale is here!
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...
Order your next favorite title now!
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...
Order your next favorite title now!
Critiques of Meiji-era Japanese militarism/colonialism? Icy border crossings? Even tigers? Man, the anime Golden Kamuy hits all of the right buttons for me.
November 14, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Critiques of Meiji-era Japanese militarism/colonialism? Icy border crossings? Even tigers? Man, the anime Golden Kamuy hits all of the right buttons for me.
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@cornellupress.bsky.social is having an amazing sale atm — 44% off until 12/5, including books by @josephaseeley.bsky.social , @timothymyang.bsky.social , and myself, among others!
November 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@cornellupress.bsky.social is having an amazing sale atm — 44% off until 12/5, including books by @josephaseeley.bsky.social , @timothymyang.bsky.social , and myself, among others!
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In twelve hours!
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
In twelve hours!
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Was thrilled to see this newly-published review of my book in the Journal of Asian Studies. Many thanks to Ted Boyle @borderthinking.bsky.social for the critically engaged review, especially his thoughts on my book's contribution to border studies.
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
Full Review: read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-a...
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It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
It’s Halloween! 🎃 Time to let your skeleton shine! 💀🦴 Are you a dancing skeleton? Celebratory skeleton? This spooky season enjoy these possibilities from the late 19th century by Kawanabe Kyōsai. #ハロウィン Held by the University of California San Francisco Library: calisphere.org/item/ark:/13...
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
October 31, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Fun interlibrary-loan surprise. From Yale I got this interesting 1980s memoir of a Zainichi Korean describing North Korea's agricultural struggles. It was obviously marked up, and on the cover page I saw it was ex libris of Noriaki Tsuchimoto, the famed Japanese documentarian.
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This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!
Excited to dig into Hannah Shepherd's new book, out in December from UC Press:
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-na...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-na...
October 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is happening!!!! December 2: just in time for Christmas present season. I am still in the anxiety stage, not yet in the Saoirse Ronan as Jo March watching her book get published scene-stage, but I'm glad other people are excited already!