Lillian Tsay
@lilliantsay.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @Univeristé de Montréal. Modern Japanese and Taiwanese history.
I love konbini 🥹🥹🥹
December 9, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I love konbini 🥹🥹🥹
Honored to have my writing appeared at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!! I thank the editors and @kant.bsky.social’s feedback on the earlier drafts.
"Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner,... I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Japanese."
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner, I had become so accustomed to being treated like an equal that I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Ja…
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Honored to have my writing appeared at @jmwwjournal.bsky.social!! I thank the editors and @kant.bsky.social’s feedback on the earlier drafts.
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
"Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner,... I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Japanese."
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner, I had become so accustomed to being treated like an equal that I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Ja…
jmwwblog.wordpress.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
"Until those random words from an oyster noodle shop owner,... I had almost forgotten I was and would always be a non-native speaker of Japanese."
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Creative Nonfiction: Your Japanese Is So Good! by Lillian Tsay
jmwwblog.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Fieldwork always inspires more writing.
Today, we invite you to sit a while "In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center" by @lilliantsay.bsky.social, and remember the past as we move into the future:
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In the Café That Was Once a Detention Center - Small Wonders
In the corner once stacked with torture tools / Now stands the curving sofa like a snake / In velvet blue.
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May 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Fieldwork always inspires more writing.
This French textbook assigned a text written by an English native speaker arguing that it is not necessary to learn French that hard bc English has dominated the French society….
April 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
This French textbook assigned a text written by an English native speaker arguing that it is not necessary to learn French that hard bc English has dominated the French society….
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
📌 Ateliers, conférences et projections pour explorer la richesse de ce patrimoine vivant
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Pour en savoir plus : www.inalco.fr/actualites/l...
La société taïwanaise contemporaine et son système de savoir-faire du "Pòo-tē-hì" (théâtre de marionnettes à gaine) : évolution, innovation, taïwanisation | Institut National des Langues et Civilisati...
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February 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
📌 Ateliers, conférences et projections pour explorer la richesse de ce patrimoine vivant
Pour en savoir plus : www.inalco.fr/actualites/l...
Pour en savoir plus : www.inalco.fr/actualites/l...
A few months ago I replied "はい" to a French person and a few days ago I said "Oui" to a Japanese person...when will this mingling of languages stop 🫣
March 6, 2025 at 5:24 AM
A few months ago I replied "はい" to a French person and a few days ago I said "Oui" to a Japanese person...when will this mingling of languages stop 🫣
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!
Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty
The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...
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February 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!
My experiences with any random Japanese cuisine in Tainan has been great so far.
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 AM
My experiences with any random Japanese cuisine in Tainan has been great so far.
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
つ、ついに！https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814005673.html?lang=jp
February 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
つ、ついに！https://www.kyoto-up.or.jp/books/9784814005673.html?lang=jp
About to submit my dissertation but stuck at like 3 bibliography entries’ page numbers lol.
February 10, 2025 at 8:00 AM
About to submit my dissertation but stuck at like 3 bibliography entries’ page numbers lol.
Watched a five-hour documentary this afternoon plus one hour Q&A with the director and I think I deserve a treat 😴
February 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Watched a five-hour documentary this afternoon plus one hour Q&A with the director and I think I deserve a treat 😴
Very honored to have my first poem published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!
The Criticism Special also features - as has happily become traditional - poetry. As we write in the issue, poems "help animate and dramatize the abstractions of criticism." With their respective verses, River, @lilliantsay.bsky.social and Liam Campbell all "turn us back to interpretation."
Poetry - Strange Horizons
Strange Horizons Poetry
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January 28, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Very honored to have my first poem published in @strangehorizons.bsky.social!
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already!
japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...
japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...
The Scientist and the South Seas: Micronesians in the Japanese Imperial Gaze - Grassroots Operations of the Japanese Empire
Introduction by Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University In 1914, shortly after the outbreak of World War I, Japan seized Germany’s territories in the North Pacific, having invoked its formal alliance with t...
japaneseempire.info
January 8, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A new entry alert!! Dr. Ruselle Meade has kindly contributed this translation of a Japanese scientist describing indigenous people and life in Nan'yo. I can think of many ways of using this resource in class already!
japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...
japaneseempire.info/the-scientis...
“Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise”
I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.
January 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise”
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Business History and Imperialism
There is a rich historiography within business history that engages with imperialism and colonialism and the projection of extra-territorial power explicit in imperial interactions (for recent example...
www.hsozkult.de
December 6, 2024 at 8:16 AM
Interesting CfP for a workshop on business history & imperialism held at Leiden University #HistIR www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
Reposted by Lillian Tsay
How do those who reside in Urban Heat Islands cope with escalating temperatures?
Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #sts #envhist
Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #sts #envhist
November 20, 2024 at 1:32 PM
How do those who reside in Urban Heat Islands cope with escalating temperatures?
Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #sts #envhist
Join the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 am ET for this talk by Sufikar Amir
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #sts #envhist
A very good time to watch the show The Good Fight.
November 8, 2024 at 5:14 PM
A very good time to watch the show The Good Fight.
Tremendous thanks to the lady who gave me 30NTD on the bus bc I forgot to bring my card and don’t have any coins 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏
January 11, 2024 at 4:02 AM
Tremendous thanks to the lady who gave me 30NTD on the bus bc I forgot to bring my card and don’t have any coins 🥹🥹🙏🙏🙏
Finished the first episode of VIVANT -- dunno which is the main purpose of the show: expressing Japanese nationalism or promoting tourism to (a fictional) Mongolia?! Also, dunno if all the Japanese actors spoke in actual Mongolian bc if they did then it's really impressive!
December 21, 2023 at 10:55 AM
Finished the first episode of VIVANT -- dunno which is the main purpose of the show: expressing Japanese nationalism or promoting tourism to (a fictional) Mongolia?! Also, dunno if all the Japanese actors spoke in actual Mongolian bc if they did then it's really impressive!