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Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies

Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press

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Are we doing our books on here? Mine came out in April. It shows how the traditional Chinese novel Water Margin crossed boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, civil and martial through the power of print. Download a copy, it's free! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
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so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"
January 2, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:43 PM
The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor position to serve as Japanese Language Program Director! One of THREE open positions in EAS!
Assistant Professor, Japanese (TE)
The successful candidate will direct the Japanese Language Program, supervising instructors and teaching assistants across all levels of the language ...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity!

bit.ly/AAS2026Ming
November 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)
Women Writers of Huizhou
Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural...
uwapress.uw.edu
October 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)
The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama
Peng Xu’s The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama argues that courtesans of the era played an active role in the theater and their impact manifested in Chinese literary history, albeit conc...
press.umich.edu
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:
Assistant Professor, Chinese (TE)
The area of expertise is open, and we are particularly interested in candidates with successful experiences in grant application or grant supported pr...
arizona.csod.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Playing around with AppleScript to automate boring professor stuff and how did I go so long without doing this?
September 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This would be the end of the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies:
Here we go. of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide.

Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students.

democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
September 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Inside Higher Ed reporting on funding for National Resource Centers like the one here at University of Arizona. If the already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, they are gone and the Center for East Asian Studies will likely close.
Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk
Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...
www.insidehighered.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.
August 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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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...
Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing
The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) was one of the most destructive wars in Chinese history, with the death toll estimated between twenty and thirty million. What visions did survivors have for restorin...
www.fulcrum.org
August 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Start your weekend with an ambient DJ tea ceremony
ambient mix at matcha tea ceremony l login.jp l milcrème l chill performative experimental
YouTube video by Login.jp_
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP
July 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Start your day by watching James Brown commandeer David Letterman's show
James Brown on Letterman `82 (IMPROVED AUDIO)
YouTube video by Art Howard
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Speaking of Genji, if anyone is interested, the audiobook of the Tyler translation, read by Brian Nishii, is quite good. Somebody please get him to do a Heike audiobook!
August 1, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Living for those green smileys... Tideman here I come!
#CS50x
July 11, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Love to see those green smileys.... #CS50
July 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Did the excellent @cs50.harvard.edu Python first, now going back to do the "big" CS50. Spending a lot of time thinking, "This would be SO much easier in Python than C...." Also, entering forgotten semicolons....
June 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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not looking good for Princeton University Press is it @princetonupress.bsky.social
the video can be found on Facebook
www.facebook.com/share/v/16Rv...
June 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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June 24, 2025 at 8:08 PM