It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy!

www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

紹介が遅くなりましたが、先日、塩出浩之先生の新しいご高著『琉球処分』をご恵贈いただきました。

「琉球処分」に関する最前線の研究成果がふんだんに盛り込まれた、大変素晴らしい力作です。とりわけ「尚家文書」の活用に重点を置かれている点は大きな見どころだと思います。

This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...

ここ数週間、多くの面白い本をご恵贈いただいています。著者の皆さんに深く感謝申し上げます！これからじっくり拝読します。

講義準備で、これまで積読状態だったGeoffrey Parkerの大著『Global Crisis』を読み漁り始めた。明清交替に関する部分の註を確認したら、田口宏二朗先生のお助けを頂いたおかげで、日本人東洋史家の業績や漢文史料を参照できたので、記して謝意申し上げたい云々と書いてあってびっくり。思わずにんまり。

Yet another senseless, catastophic set of proposed university cuts. Given there are only a handful of institutions in the UK that teach Chinese, Korean and Japanese at all, this loss would be felt keenly across the UK academic landscape.

Pleased to share a new article, just out in Late Imperial China: 'Qing Diplomacy’s Scottish Face: Halliday Macartney, Yamen Culture, and Diplomatic Transformation in China’s London Legation, 1877-1905'.

muse.jhu.edu/article/948071

R. Kent Guy's THREE IMPEACHMENTS is a rich and enticing probe into a key moment in late imperial Chinese history. Now available in print and #OpenAccess, made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation. Learn more: uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

Chinese Woodblock Print Advent Calendar 2024 - Dec 16 - Illustrated Records of the Traces of the Queen of Heaven, Holy Mother [Mazu] 天后聖母聖跡圖誌, 1832 - Mazu's rise from a daughter of the Lin family in Fujian to the Queen of Heaven, illustrated & w/ excellent paratext 🀄📚 @sudasana.bsky.social

For anyone interested, a video of Carol Gluck's 2024 MJHA Distinguished Annual Lecture "Thirteen Ways of Looking at Modern Japanese History: Time Past, Present, Future" is now up on the MJHA YouTube Channel!

youtu.be/q9HuvWHlhhc

This is a fascinating sample of Manchu as actually spoken by native speakers. The lady is from a village in Heilongjiang (I presume Ilan Boo 三家子); the two interviewers are Sibe from Xinjiang.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Gc-...

(from Chris Atwood on 糖山's network)

There's a lot of criticism of Japanese TV media this morning because of its lack of live coverage of the events following a declaration of martial law in Korea. Many channels kept showing regularly scheduled programming.

I scanned up a copy of a 1939 Japanese guidebook for Shinkyō/Xinjing/Changchun from occupied Manchuria: 『新京案内』. Nice to browse alongside Bill Sewell's book "Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45" https://archive.org/details/shinkyo-annai (tweet archive 2022)

Hello! To get the ball rolling on here: as Josh Fogel announced on the Sinologists Facebook page, the first book in our Japanese Sinology series will be published soon! Miyazaki Ichisada, Literature and History in the Shi ji of Sima Qian (trans. Josh Fogel). 乞うご期待!

cup.columbia.edu/book/literat....