Arunabh Ghosh
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
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Arunabh Ghosh
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
· Nov 14
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983 | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983
doi.org
New open access article in CSSH:
"The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
"The Significance of Small Things: Small Hydropower in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1983
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
Among the greatest comedic turns in Hindi cinema. I can only imagine how much fun the entire cast must have had making this movie.
Farewell Dharmendra! And thank you for the good times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkZ...
Farewell Dharmendra! And thank you for the good times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkZ...
"Ab to Mai Bilkul Pagal Nahin Hu.." | Dharmendra Om Prakash Comedy Scenes | Chupke Chupke [12]
YouTube video by Old Bollywood Clips
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November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Among the greatest comedic turns in Hindi cinema. I can only imagine how much fun the entire cast must have had making this movie.
Farewell Dharmendra! And thank you for the good times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkZ...
Farewell Dharmendra! And thank you for the good times!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFkZ...
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New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Quantitative History of China
This Open Access book showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history based on large historical datasets.
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Very happy to share an article that Arunabh Ghosh and I wrote for a special issue organized by Sara Lorenzini on "Dam Scientists." Much thanks to Sara for the invitation!
Feel free to DM me for a copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Feel free to DM me for a copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China | Environment and History
Scholars often characterise dam building as an instance of high modernism par excellence. Such characterisations typically imagine dams as gargantuan projects that involve government elites drawing on technoscientific expertise to re-engineer the ...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Very happy to share an article that Arunabh Ghosh and I wrote for a special issue organized by Sara Lorenzini on "Dam Scientists." Much thanks to Sara for the invitation!
Feel free to DM me for a copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
Feel free to DM me for a copy.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
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New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
October 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
New open access article! In "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China," the authors examine tensions between the PRC's limited capacities and promethean visions of taming China's rivers in the mid-20th century. Read it here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
Now OPEN ACCESS!
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social and I wrote about "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China." With thanks to @slorenzini.bsky.social for inviting us to a fun workshop in Trento and to being open to a co-authored article!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social and I wrote about "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China." With thanks to @slorenzini.bsky.social for inviting us to a fun workshop in Trento and to being open to a co-authored article!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People’s Republic of China | Environment and History
Scholars often characterise dam building as an instance of high modernism par excellence. Such characterisations typically imagine dams as gargantuan projects that involve government elites drawing on technoscientific expertise to re-engineer the ...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Now OPEN ACCESS!
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social and I wrote about "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China." With thanks to @slorenzini.bsky.social for inviting us to a fun workshop in Trento and to being open to a co-authored article!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
@cfmeyskens.bsky.social and I wrote about "The Contradictions of Dam Building in the People's Republic of China." With thanks to @slorenzini.bsky.social for inviting us to a fun workshop in Trento and to being open to a co-authored article!
doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
October 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
September 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
job alert:
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
My department is now running a search to fill a newly inaugurated endowed chair in the History of Technology. Please consider applying/share widely. I'm not on the committee, but happy to answer questions or connect you with those who are.
Details here: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09897
Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Lin, and Victoria Fomina:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina – Comparative Studies in Society and History
"Center and periphery are never simple facts of imperial geography:" CSSH authors Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned from reading their papers togethe...
sites.lsa.umich.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Along the Imperial Spectrum, with Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-hsiu Lin, and Victoria Fomina:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
CFP: New Perspectives in Environmental History-One Day Conference
Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21
Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21
Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
New Perspectives in Environmental History (2026)
| Environmental History at Yale
environmentalhistory.yale.edu
September 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
CFP: New Perspectives in Environmental History-One Day Conference
Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21
Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
Yale University, February 28 (Saturday)
Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 21
Details: environmentalhistory.yale.edu/programs/con...
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New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed.
The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.
electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.
electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
China installs the world's most powerful wind turbine
China’s Dongfang Electric has installed a 26-megawatt offshore wind turbine, snatching the "world’s most powerful" title from Siemens Gamesa.
electrek.co
August 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New record: The world’s most powerful wind turbine prototype has been installed.
The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.
electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
The dimensions of this are mind-boggling: With a blade wheel diameter exceeding 310m and hub height of 185m this turbine represents a significant leap forward in wind power technology.
electrek.co/2025/08/29/c...
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Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
June 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html
THE CENTRE FOR HISTORY AND ECONOMICS
Prize Research Grants
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk
June 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Cambridge Centre will be awarding a number of Prize Research Grants for the academic year 2025-2026. Applications are now open. Submission deadline is 4 September 2025. Click below for further information, eligibility and how to apply.
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html
www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/prize.html
Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
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Applications for the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program close in ten days!
Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027)
This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...
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May 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Applications for the NCUSCR Public Intellectuals Program close in ten days!
Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Learn more about how you can join the next generation of American China specialists by May 11, 2025: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Today!!
The talk will be live streamed!
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April 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today!!
The talk will be live streamed!
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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April 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The talk will be live streamed!
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The final @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the AY will feature @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social, speaking on:
Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
Modern China Lecture featuring Joseph Ho — Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China – Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
fairbank.fas.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The final @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture of the AY will feature @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social, speaking on:
Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China
April 21 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Details: fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/moder...
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Half full or half empty: Solar rose 27% and gas rose 3% in 2024. Solar+wind now generates more power than coal, and overall GHG emissions from the power sector went up.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
US Electricity 2025 - Special Report | Ember
The US clean electricity transition continued as wind and solar generated more than coal for the first time. Electricity demand growth sped up and solar generation rose more quickly than gas to help m...
ember-energy.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Half full or half empty: Solar rose 27% and gas rose 3% in 2024. Solar+wind now generates more power than coal, and overall GHG emissions from the power sector went up.
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Today!
The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960. – Fairbank Ce...
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March 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Today!
The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
Modern China Lecture Series Featuring Yixin Chen — Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960. – Fairbank Ce...
tinyurl.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The @fairbankcenter.bsky.social Modern China Lecture is back online! Tomorrow (3/4) at 4 PM:
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5
Famine and Rebellion: The Counterrevolutionary Case of the Chinese People’s Life-Saving Army in the Western Stream Villages, 1959-1960
Chen Yixin (NCU Wilmington)
tinyurl.com/2y87jcp5