Baseball. Taiwan's historic victory in the WBSC Premier12 Championship has allowed further affirmation for the country on the international stage.
This gesture by Team Taiwan's captain Chen Chieh-hsien best encapsulates this breakthrough. You can't see any logo or team name? Try harder.

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First time plugging the book here: it's on pre-order now and is out July 2025.

Ghost Nation is the culmination of 10 years of reporting on Taiwan, a vitally important yet poorly understood country of 23 million. Please consider pre-ordering + help spread the word🙏🙏🙏
www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Nation...

Some useful details to explore in this 1938 wartime map, and a decent quality for online viewing. Via 國立臺灣歷史博物館 and thanks to Daqing Yang for the tip: collections.nmth.gov.tw/CollectionCo...

This complements our efforts @minjian-danganguan.bsky.social which we're in the processing of upgrading to a new, more powerful database software. For now, check out our old site:
minjian-danganguan.org

I joined Daqing Yang (GWU) and Sayaka Chatani (NUS) in producing this history sourcebook “East Asia at War: Mobilization, Women, Refugees and Mobility” for EuroClio (European Association of History Educators). Really love working with these two wonderful historians. euroclio.eu/resource/eas...

A fascinating interview (trans into Engl) with a Chinese internet censor. Refers to themself as a "cog in the machine" and expresses guilt over their role and frustration with the system that creates and perpetuates censorship, but also a general sense of the futility of any action of dissent.

Just saw the news that Stefan Landsberger passed away on Sept. 26. RIP to a scholar who generously shared his passion for Chinese propaganda with the world. His website, Chineseposters.net, is the deepest open-access source of Chinese propaganda posters available.

Happy to share that my article "Leaves, Silkworms, Yue Fei: Ways of Imagining the Territory in 1930s China" is out in Twentieth-Century China and is currently open-access.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Finished scanning all eight volumes of the 訂正女子修身教科書 today, a text I knew nothing about until finding a few copies back in March (bsky.app/profile/thia...), and am now fascinated by. Early Minguo textbooks for girls filled with charming illustrations, some regressive values, and patriotism! 1/

"Yet I could not erase all possibility of hope, for hope lies in the future. I could not rely on my own present evidence in its lack, to refute his assertion that it might exist one day."

-Lu Xun, from Preface to Call to Arms, 1922.
#everynightapoem #ofsorts #救救孩子

My book cover is here and ᴊᴜsᴛ ʟᴏᴏᴋ ᴀᴛ ɪᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ɢᴜʏs

@cornellupress.bsky.social

The historian Danna Agmon has a useful mnemonic for students to help them with reading academic scholarship in history: THOMAS (Topic, Historiography, Organization, Method, Argument, So What?)

dannaagmon.wordpress.com/teaching/

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Jessamyn R. Abel's "Dream Super-Express: A Cultural History of the World's First Bullet Train" (Stanford University Press, 2022)!

The article "Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Epistemic Imperialism in Vertebrate Paleontology" by Lukas Rieppel and me has been published in the December 2023 issue of Isis @isisjournal.bsky.social.

doi.org/10.1086/727563

Launching the Chinese translation of Land of Strangers in Taiwan!

Online Book Launch:《異鄉人之地：清帝國在新疆的教化工程》 時間｜10:00-12:00, January 27, 2024 (UTC/GMT+8)
主講｜許臨君（That's me!，喬治華盛頓大學現代中國史副教授）
與談｜蔡偉傑（國立中正大學歷史學系助理教授） Registration: reurl.cc/XqEbER

I had the privilege of meeting Hsiao Bi-khim during her visit to her alma mater, Oberlin, in 2022, when she was the Taiwanese Ambassador to the US. 1/