Eric Schluessel
@ericschluessel.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ. Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
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Let's get you to high table in our adorable hall
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Oh right! I should announce that here!
ericschluessel.bsky.social
Strange choices from the university whose library is building America's biggest collection of Uyghur books. And a press that published @seanroberts.bsky.social The War on the Uyghurs.
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thianun.bsky.social
Author copy fresh out of the box! I'm shaking!

@uofmpress.bsky.social made the publication process so smooth! And huge thanks for hosting an open access version, which will be available on my official publication date: August 5.

But if you'd rather buy a hard copy, use code UMWEB30 for 30% off!
Slightly blurry selfie of me, a middle aged white woman wearing glasses, holding a copy of my book after just having unboxed it. Back cover of my book, which includes the summary and two blurbs that are available in full here: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Teaching-and-Transformation-in-Popular-Confucian-Literature-of-the-Late-Qing3
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This summer, June 7-August 7, I'll be running an online course in "Introduction to Chaghatay!" 12 meetings. $280 for the whole thing. Open access textbook + videos to walk you through grammar and readings. Fees will support GW's Uyghur Studies Initiative. Apply here!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Introduction to Chaghatay, Summer 2025
This is an application form for the not-for-credit summer course in introductory Chaghatay language to be held through the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University in Summer ...
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They’re back!! ❤️😭🫡
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OFFICIAL: Seizure of our Twitter handle by revisionist elements condemned. Establishing thoughtwork operations-in-exile on this platform until glorious reunification.
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jfallows.bsky.social
My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking:

The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
Trump’s Cultural Revolution | by Orville Schell - Project Syndicate
Orville Schell sees obvious and troubling parallels between the US president and Mao Zedong.
www.project-syndicate.org
ericschluessel.bsky.social
I live every day in mortal fear that this site will cease to function.
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I’ll do you one better: Stein’s maps, stitched together, with each location pinned: dsr.nii.ac.jp/digital-maps... Hedin and Huang Wenbi’s are elsewhere on the site. Essential resource for historians of the region.
Map Search of Innermost Asia | Stein Gazetteer
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Monday, Nov 18, 4:00–5:00 Eastern Time/10:00–11:00 CET, we'll host an online talk by Prof. Don Wyatt on Africans in Early Modern China! Register here.

www.eventbrite.com/e/through-po...

Hosted by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies/East Asia NRC
Through Ports of No Return: Entrances of the African into China
Join Dr. Don Wyatt, scholar on the intellectual history of China, to discuss the possibility of an African presence in Early Modern China.
www.eventbrite.com
ericschluessel.bsky.social
There are ages of reason and ages of 囧
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Wait wait wait wait what about 囧?
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jeremycyoung.bsky.social
"An ideologically motivated effort to silence viewpoints and remove resources and information on gender on the New College campus." My statement at PEN America on New College literally tossing the library of its student-led gender and diversity center into a dumpster: pen.org/press-releas...
Florida’s New College Trashes Library of Books at Gender and Diversity Center
PEN America has condemned New College of Florida’s destruction of a student-run library of books on gender, part of the College’s abrupt closure of the student-led gender and diversity center on Thurs...
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It's already on my graduate readings syllabus for this fall. :)
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karenho.bsky.social
sometimes it consoles me to remember whatever work I do today, it cannot be worse than the Cybertruck
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And Y. Yvon Wang (Toronto), "'Taking Life Too Lightly' or 'Martyred for Righteousness'? Officials' Suicides in the High #Qing"

This is a great spread of classic topics in #Ming-#Qing history, revisited through new lenses. Love being on the LIC editorial board.

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Project MUSE - Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan
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Kwangmin Kim (CU–Boulder), "Fighting to Keep the Land Wild: Huifang and Vernacular Forestry in Nineteenth-Century #Manchuria" #Qing (3/4)

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Project MUSE - Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan
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Yiyun Peng (more Chicago!), "Mountains as the Lifeline": Shifting Agricultural Policies in Upland Southeast China, Sixteenth-Nineteenth Centuries" #Ming #Qing ... (2/4)

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan
muse.jhu.edu
ericschluessel.bsky.social
The June 2024 issue of Late Imperial China is out! muse.jhu.edu/issue/52704 We have four articles on gender, agriculture, forestry, and suicide:

You Wang (Chicago), "Women Till and Women Weave: Rice, Cotton, and the Gendered Division of Labor in Jiangnan" #Qing ... (1/4)
Project MUSE - Late Imperial China-Volume 45, Number 1, June 2024
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