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Scott Ma

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Doctorand in History at the University of Zurich🇨🇭. Working on the history of agricultural science in modern Japan & the legacy of Confucian thought. Polyglot and hapless cosmopolitan. Tweets are public reason and not private. Site: https://scott-ma.com

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Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · Dec 15

本屋まわりから戻ったところの絵

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How could they find time to rule the country when they were sleeping with even the fan makers

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My brothers is it any surprise you lost power to the samurai

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Lmao medieval Kyoto is just not serious

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 8h

*not the oranges

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hired to study Japan, forced to study the history of german economics otl lord have grace for me

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Academic goals I guess

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

死んだ人の秘密を暴くのは歴史家かもしれないけど、なんとあわれ…

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

出会ったころの新戸部っちはかなりご立派だと思い込んじまったけど、蓋を開けばなるほど五千円札に載せるに値する活躍や人徳を煎じ詰めれば持っているかどうか

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

新渡戸稲造の未来の妻メアリーの最初の印象はずばり、こいつさぞかし日本の主婦の良い手本になるであろう、と

どう反応すればよろしい…

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 1d

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 Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

wtf Nitobe Inazo 19 years younger than his oldest brother. I cannot even fathom he could be papa

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

研究が益々玄人じゃないとそもそも攻撃しているカカシが見えない方向になっているのは嬉しいけど、流石に日本研究しない人には重要さが理解できなくなっている

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

先生にそのうち博論の一章を差し上げる約束をしてしまい、いややっぱりできなさそう。読むものも多く、古語の復習もまともにこなせたい…

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

最近空の軌跡をプレイしているところ、なるほど英訳された感じとかなり違います。そもそも西洋から見る女性像は日本のとは違いすぎて、馬鹿馬鹿しい印象があったと言えどもそれほど自立できない印象ではなかったはずです。フルボイスがあるとなんだかんだ黙って欲しくはなる……

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

Family watching the latest Chinese propaganda always reminds me that thanks to the Communists the whole country lives ideologically secluded from the rest of the world and as it turns out, many really fucking like it

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CCTV drama Silent Honour marks rare salute to Communist Party spies in Taiwan

39-part series that premiered on Martyrs’ Day is first to hail crucial civil war intelligence provided by four undercover agents in Taiwan.

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Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

That’s fascinating, thank you!!

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

There’s a very readable book by John Maki titled “A yankee in Hokkaido” if you’re interested!

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 1d

William S Clark, who founded UMass Amherst. He was hired to open a similar school in Japan but ended up forcefully converting all of his students to Christianity because he apparently couldn’t teach morality without the Bible. He wasn’t an ordained priest so the theology was a bit wonky.

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Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah but he’s also Japanese, so are Japanese weebs just nationalists? Or are they otaku?

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 2d

Is my brother seriously saying that the Japanese, unlike the other backward orientals, have personality

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 2d

When did filial piety etc become a Shinto thing. Actually when did Shinto turn from weird theology and nice literature into a moral code…

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 2d

ah yes as Confucius said, the non-deaf do not die with regrets

who tf translated this…

Scott Ma @scma.bsky.social · 2d

“Is the League of Nations a Jewish conspiracy?” Jesus was there anything the Jews didn’t conspire 😅