Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔 @HistorianZhang Twitter profile

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

2 years

Was just told that my book will be in physical form by the end of the month. They've got both hard and paperback!

Power for a Price — Harvard University Press

The Qing dynasty office purchase system (juanna), which allowed individuals to pay for appointments in the government, was regarded in traditional Chinese historiography as an inherently corrupt and...

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@HistorianZhang

8 months

Covering up the の is pretty funny

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My friend who runs a hotel tells me their cleaners (union job) pays like 50k a year USD not counting tips

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There's been a lot of speculation about reduction in quarantine hotel requirements in #HongKong . Having just returned from overseas, I can confidently say that until something changes with the airport arrival experience, this can only end badly. A thread: /1

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Stubbs Rd is now Stubbs River apparently

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It's here four months early!

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Unhinged history take of the day

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@dieworkwear Aren't most of those trousers too skinny so they hang funny because it tapers too much? Like they just need to be a bit more generous and won't have this issue and hang properly

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

7 months

So let's say you want to buy some tea in Hong Kong and don't know of any place other than the scammy TWG tea. Here is a 🧵 about places that I shop at being a hopeless tea addict and all. I'm mostly focusing on older shops here that are more interesting to go visit /1

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

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Not only is the apartment typical HK... He also got yelled at by the cha chaan teng woman for not knowing that cold drinks cost more than hot drinks in HK for the same drink

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Malaysian experiencing budget apartment in Hong Kong

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My son's idea of a good read

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@DrHistoryBrad @JamesL0307 Isn't economics just slavery with extra steps?

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@EmilyGuerry At this point is it even a university anymore?

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

8 months

Make Hong Kong great again, or something From time to time I have to remind my students that the colonial period was, well, colonial

MOFBA • Advertising History in China

@MOFBACN

8 months

1935 travel poster advertisement for Hong Kong, "The Riviera of the Orient". It doesn't get much more colonial than this...

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

3 months

A recent Chinese meme I saw encapsulated this well AI was supposed to do our dishes and wash our clothes so we have time to draw paintings and write stories How come AI is now drawing and writing when we still have to do our dishes?

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3 months

‘no robot has ever dropped out of college to take a calligraphy class before doing computer science’. @gilliantett makes a powerful argument about the value of liberal arts and humanities. ‘The current obsession with science, technology, engineering and maths is not enough.’

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8 months

Stop writing papers that ignore how people could pay money to bypass the exams completely

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@HistorianZhang

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@macastel3 But it really isn't very good for society

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@rzhongnotes Asians can't tell Asians apart is such a wild take. I'd think she has that disorder where she can't tell faces apart

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@HistorianZhang

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A recent discovery of an ancient tomb of an unknown emperor in Macau

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

9 months

Whatever Chinese historical institution you want to study, there's at least two Japanese studies on it published in super obscure journals. One of them will be 200 pages published in six parts that you can only get after a lot of ILL drama

Jakabfi Károly (霸王最忠之臣子）

@JakabfiK

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Whatever ancient Chinese text you want to write about, there's a perfectly fine 1986 Japanese study anthology covering every single worthwhile "novel" angle you can think of.

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One problem with K-12 education in Hong Kong is how things are graded. You begin every assignment from a state of perfection:100. You then lose points for every error you make, until at the end of the assignment or test you arrive at your final grade. 1/

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@BrittaAger I've only studied Greek for a week on Duolingo but I can confidently say your translation is horrible

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Our next export industry

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Wife is in Beijing at a conference and all of a sudden I have a craving for these cheap baozi with crappy vinegar

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@bryancsk Don't forget this badboy that pollutes artwork as well

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More unhinged history take from this banger of an account

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

7 months

My students in Hong Kong are largely unaware of who/what Jardine Matheson is

Koji Hirata

@hirako13

7 months

I'm curious how many people recognise the name HSBC but don't know what the acronym stands for.

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

3 months

Done with the misguided idea that somehow more recent history is more relevant by default. Our students love older stuff and just look at all the popular discourse about Rome. We need more premodern historians to do this work

Matthew W. Mosca

@mwmosca

3 months

Important point. Historians have almost no control over shrinking resources, but *historians themselves* control where cuts are made, and discipline has overwhelmingly sacrificed pre-1900 history. In US, probably more historians of 1970s hired in last decade than of whole 17th C.

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I don't know why some Asians seem to believe that Asians are somehow incapable of racism? Have they not sat around dinner tables with aunts and uncles who just say the most racist things? It's universal

derek guy

@dieworkwear

9 months

@ruemcclammyhand why don't you post the whole thing? my tweet is in response to someone who thinks my pfp is me trying to pass as white. has it ever occurred to anyone that I'm a menswear acct and so my pfp was chosen for a reason related to my hobby?

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@westernexile The difference between this and Napoleon is that Napoleon failed even in the entertainment area and can't be considered a guilty pleasure for anything

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

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Humbled and honoured to have my book Power for a Price named as an honourable mention for the Joseph Levenson prize this year

Association for Asian Studies

@AASAsianStudies

3 months

Drum roll please ...🥁 We are thrilled to announce the winners of our #AAS2024 awards! Congratulations to all the honorees.

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@HistorianZhang

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@macastel3 It eats a lot of resources especially water. In places like Beijing where water is already in short supply it's expensive, and it displaces a lot of other things to make happen

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

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Impossible is nothing just got a new meaning today

佐敦哥哥 (Jordan 23)

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香港 (メッシ来港中)

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@HistorianZhang

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@Stellaratum @whsieh Yup. But you know the Spanish missionaries and traders who brought the guns were just CIA agents

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@HistorianZhang

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@tomgrundy What no she would've pressed the close door button the second she walked in

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

4 months

I'm going to be teaching a Qing documents course this Spring. If you have a grad student in HK who might find it useful you can have them x-register! I'm sorting through docs and found this interesting little example for week 2: why veritable records is lacking. Look at this /1

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@HistorianZhang

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Never seen the two right hand flags before

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@HistorianZhang

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Strategic

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@HistorianZhang

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Instead of fireworks every month how about bringing in town check-in back?

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@HistorianZhang

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@chen_yenhan Better than 99% of the takes out there

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HK lunch

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@HistorianZhang

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@RoadsideMum @Mandyque I'd kill to have my kids wanting that to be their every day menu Take it. It's fine!

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@HistorianZhang

2 months

A problem I find in some works on PRC history is not enough emphasis on the personal life and death stakes for the individuals involved, if it's mentioned at all

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@lulumeservey

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what did y'all think communism meant? vibes? papers? essays?

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@HistorianZhang

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Chinese No conjugation

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What are your favourite features of your native tongue(s)? My native is Lithuanian, I love that we still have some grammatical dual and ofc pitch accent 🤩

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@HistorianZhang

7 months

Live view of foreign man getting scammed

China in Pictures

@tongbingxue

7 months

The President of Chile visited Panjiayuan Wednesday, the most popular flea market in Beijing, and He is really interested in a Chinese table screen.

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@HistorianZhang

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The slowest bit, the quarantine order, is entirely pointless. It exists to fulfill what is obviously a bureaucratic requirement - someone has to sign a piece of paper saying so-and-so is now under compulsory quarantine. Great for historians, but terrible for people waiting /24

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@HistorianZhang

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The old school joy of seeing your stuff literally in print

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@HistorianZhang

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I think everyone in Qing history knows this thing was never going to make it. I remember it was all the rage when I was in Beijing doing my dissertation in 2006/7, then crickets

Taisu Zhang

@ZhangTaisu

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Academic news of the day: the Qing History Project at Renmin University and CASS (this is the government sponsored attempt to formally write a comprehensive and authoritative history of the Qing) has now been put on ice because higher authorities deemed the draft it produced to…

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#hellohongkong

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@HistorianZhang

1 month

And stop pretending to be historians ffs. Just because a dataset exists doesn't mean you have to run models on it, especially if you have no idea how it's constructed or what the problems are associated with it, an issue I see all the time in these historical polisci papers

William Hurst

@wjhurst

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This should be said loudly and repeatedly! Political science will die if it continues much further down the path of obsessing over methodological minutiae & persnickety nitpicking over causal inference - all centred on analysis of more & trivial questions no one cares about...

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@HistorianZhang

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My undergrad advisor told me when I was applying for grad school and asking for letters - go to a top 5 program of your field or don't bother. Doesn't matter how well you fit your advisor etc etc. He is right

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@HistorianZhang

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Also note how the lines are meant to be even more densely packed than here. For a city that insists you can't eat with more than four people and that you need to quarantine in a hotel for a week, the irony is obvious. There's also no warning to incoming pax that waiting .../11

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@HistorianZhang

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People did this at the beginning of the Cultural revolution burning diaries and stuff. A historian could only weep

Arthur Kaufman

@arthur_kaufman_

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"'We did not know which books were considered bad, so we just burned all of our Uyghur and Kazakh books page by page in the stove in our house,' she said. 'We were too afraid to throw them away because we worried they could be traced back to us.'" ...

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@WeiDuCNA Also means she can't find random jobs to help pay for things, which is important context

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@HistorianZhang

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@BertiePage Is the sticker on the case or on the statue too? I mean, if it's just on the case ..

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@HistorianZhang

2 years

Until these things are straightened out and streamlined, any talk of reopening is just fantasy. The airport, as it is currently arranged, cannot really handle any more flights. Forget about any resumption of normalcy. How about entering the 21st century? /30

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@HistorianZhang

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The entire process at the airport feels like it was designed in the early days of 2020, with little to no streamlining since. It might have been acceptable if you had to wait for a PCR result anyway before leaving the airport, but with RAT test the process was far too slow. /23

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@HistorianZhang

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The staff, I should say, were trying to be as helpful as they can, but they were constrained by the processes laid down by the authorities. There's not much they can really do to make things better given the tight process they have to work with. /31

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@HistorianZhang

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You would also think that, 2.5 years into the pandemic, there would be more provisions for people in need. Chairs and water are basic minimum for people spending literal hours in a line, but those are completely missing. Benches in the bus waiting area were even fenced off /28

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@HistorianZhang

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@jake_j_jung This is awfully specific

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@HistorianZhang

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I think this is what the HK government had fought against for decades since I was a little kid. I remember fish ball stalls on little carts near bus stops and the like. All gone. Now you want them back??

Aaron Busch

@tripperhead

8 months

Fire Services Dept says "Night Vibes HK" food vendors no longer need to apply for a licence to cook over an open flame in public. Stalls will only need basic fire safety requirements, such as the provision of fire extinguishers, fire blankets and barriers at the working table.

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@HistorianZhang

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Yes we get these all the time in HK. From what I understand there are firms that get paid to help hook you up with profs and there are even ones that pay profs to do these pseudo projects just so the kids can add it to their application file

The Chinese History Podcast

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It's kinda unfortunate that high schoolers now have to resort to this to beef up their resumes for college. At least one other person in my department got the exact same email, tailored to their research.

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@HistorianZhang

2 years

I can see how the whole flow is designed to fulfill a checklist, but nowhere in the mandate is there a need to "reduce inconvenience to incoming travelers." Changing quarantine from 7 to 5 or 3 days wouldn't change a thing at the airport. By adding people, it would be worse /27

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@HistorianZhang

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Luxury three course meal

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@HistorianZhang

3 months

I too miss the healing power of the Japanese onsen

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It is bedlam in Japan! LEO MESSI IS ON! HE HAS DONE IT! THE CAPTAIN, LEADER, LEGEND IS NOW EL SHITHOUSEO MASSIVO!

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@HistorianZhang

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There's more nonsense once we have arrived at the hotel with regards to testing and record keeping, but that's for another time. In the meantime, maybe those people at the Department of Health should try to simulate airport arrival themselves and see how stupid the process is/end

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@HistorianZhang

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@macastel3 @bagofhurt At least water parks are way more dense in the number of people who enjoy the facilities

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@HistorianZhang

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@GaijinMommy Vegan... You just know there was that one customer that caused that line

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@HistorianZhang

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I think the assumption was mainlanders would come and push up prices and didn't consider the other possibility

HK Hemlock

@HKBigLychee

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Hongkongers’ long weekend ‘great migration’ cuts restaurant trade by 30%. Rents must fall closer towards Shenzhen’s. Thus property values/govt land revenues as well. Ultimately, also, wages. Do policymakers pushing integration realize this?

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@HistorianZhang

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There's no reason why this process cannot be moved entirely online with the info pre-submitted. The barcode system can be completely replaced with the QR code you get and the whole process can be done with max one check of paperwork to make sure your info matches up. /25

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@HistorianZhang

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Genuinely confused what the issue is with the encampment Just let them sit there? Eventually they'll go away when it gets super hot. It's not like Columbia needs paying tourists What the issue that's so urgent?

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Sources say Columbia University has threatened to authorize the NYPD and National Guard to sweep the protest encampment as soon as tonight

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@HistorianZhang

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Honestly this is a terrible message. Passion doesn't pay bills

The Harvard Crimson

@thecrimson

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Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Emma Dench said students should pursue graduate degrees out of passion for their research rather than a desire for professorship during a Tuesday interview. Adina R. Lippman and @angelinajparker report.

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@HistorianZhang

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Still the most ridiculous thing - that Lu Xun is not borrowable due to worries about national security. You can buy his books in China!

YTSL

@FY4Chan

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1/ A reminder that books by Lu Xun have been removed from Hong Kong public libraries. And that septuagenarian activist "Grandpa" Chan Ki-kau was arrested for displaying quotes by Lu Xun up on Lion Rock just last month.

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@HistorianZhang

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Shijing is probably an unlimited source of insults and jokes almost no one would ever get for every situation

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@ohhatface

1 year

Is this the most niche sign at the Edinburgh University picket today? #UCURising #UCU #UCUEdinburgh

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@HistorianZhang

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$700 monographs coming to a bookstore near you

De Gruyter Brill

@degruyter_brill

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De Gruyter Brill begins here. Today De Gruyter and Brill will continue as one company: De Gruyter Brill, the leading publisher in the humanities.

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@HistorianZhang

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Oh man they all look like kids

China in Pictures

@tongbingxue

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Chinese soldiers onboard DC3, flying over Himalaya, to U.S. Ramgarh Training Center in India, 1943. They wearing straw sandals, later went to Burma to fight against the Japanese army, and most of them died on the battlefield.

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@HistorianZhang

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Post the outfit you'll be wearing for the constitutional crisis.

Dr. Alexander S. Burns

@KKriegeBlog

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Post the outfit you'll be wearing for the constitutional crisis.

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The Shanghai that my grandparents knew

Vintage Shanghai

@VintageShanghai

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Shanghai in Color, 1940s.

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@HistorianZhang

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Who ever thought parenthetical citation is ok? "Here's the book I referenced good luck finding this point in those 300 pages hope it's in the index"??

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The worst thing about American hotels is being forced to use this garbage for hot water

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@HistorianZhang

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for a long time in a line is part of the process. The government website makes no mention and does not warn you to make provisions. If you're thirsty or hungry and have nothing, well, sucks to be you, I guess. Or, like the old couple behind us, are just tired and want to sit. /12

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Nor is there any kind of allowance for people with kids. I was lucky my three were troopers and soldiered on, but if my toddler cried nonstop? If a mom with a newborn needs to feed? Too bad, good luck I guess? /29

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What did I just read

Michael D. Swaine

@Dalzell60

5 months

@SheenaGreitens @kuokuomich @BonnieGlaser @jessicacweiss Thanks Sheena. I am hesitant to look at Taiwan sources, for fear that they all tend to slant in one political direction or another. But that might be too harsh.

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@HistorianZhang

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So from today onward I'm no longer an assistant professor

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@HistorianZhang

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My favourite is always this one

Carl Zha

@CarlZha

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Emperor Yongzheng (1722-1735) cosplaying as a French nobleman hunting tiger with traditional Chinese trident. Yongzheng had commissioned many painting of him dressing variously as Han literati, Mongol/Turkic prince, Tibetan lama. They are collectively called 雍正行乐图 literally…

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Had to look up something on the map and am reminded Google maps for China is offset by a few hundred meters between its road data and the satellite data. A friend who worked at Google looked into it and said it's a provider problem and seems like it's never been fixed

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@HistorianZhang

2 years

@CindyWan19 @tomgrundy This really does look like bait for someone to tip it over

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@HistorianZhang

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@jayallen_uj Last time I checked Western style hotels in Japan also have the same rules with breakfast time and bath hours etc

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@HistorianZhang

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Happy to share that an article I co-authored with my PhD student Li Chong is out in the December 2023 issue of Late Imperial China. It's about a source called (among other things things) Shangyu tiaoli, basically periodically published regulations /1

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

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A n updated database of Qing official posts. You can search and find out who occupied those jobs

清代職官資料庫

為拓展清史研究，本所於民國96年規畫建置清代職官資料庫，105年開放學界使用。

newarchive.ihp.sinica.edu.tw

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@HistorianZhang

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Our panel "Thinking about Money in India, China, and Russia: Four Perspectives on Monetary Policy and State Income" got accepted at #AAS2024 in Seattle. See you all there!

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

4 months

My wife has encountered students like this, usually Chinese who try to "teach" her Chinese history when that's her speciality. Obviously it's racism+sexism. With evals these students are really hard for junior scholars to deal with

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

2 months

1) everyone cried, even if you weren't sad, because you had to 2) anecdotally, some people actually wanted to laugh so they put their head down on desk/covered their face and pretended to cry when they were actually just really happy

Marc Matten

@matten_marc

2 months

One Question: during the mourning ceremonies of Mao Zedong in 1976: did Jiang Qing shed tears?

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

10 months

My best HK education crying story is a couple or five or six years old boys outside KLT MTR on verge of tears with their mom yelling at them in English "Listen to me! Where you get in now will determine the fate for the rest of your life!"

Joel Chan

@kjoules

10 months

For a second there I thought these were the ones. Also, blame Michelle Obama. Also, if you see students crying in the streets, you’ll understand why

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

3 months

Japan is fairly friendly towards kids. For a place that actually hates kid go to Korea. Been rejected from restaurants multiple times just because we were bringing a young one (no we hadn't even stepped foot in it)

Tom Kelly ケリー・トム

@tomkXY

3 months

Japan has a problem. Japan hates kids. It’s a very difficult and expensive to raise them here. Yet they need young people to pay tax to fund pensions. Japan hates immigrants. It’s hard to ignore constant reminders of that. Yet they need skilled workers as the workforce retires.

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

3 months

What are five topics you can talk about for 30 minutes with zero prep? 1) tea prep 2) yixing pots 3) children's books styles in East Asia 4) HK's education system 5) Qing government

Emily Matson, PhD

@DrEmilyMatson

3 months

1. Manchuria 2. World War II (particularly 抗日战争) 3. Global Maoism (thanks @jagevans ) 4. Historical memory 5. Dystopian fiction

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

1 month

I subscribe to Ho Ping-ti's claim in "Significance" that much of 20th century China is from the Qing, so it should really rank higher

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@thocpodcast

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

2 years

After I grabbed the chair and put it in our line, magically, before the 30 mins was up, there was a bus! Turns out there was always a bus, they were just waiting for... I'm not sure what. More people? 3am to turn so they get paid an extra hour? I have no idea /19

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

11 months

@DanDanTGS @AlanMCole Because it's EA

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Lawrence Zhang 張樂翔

@HistorianZhang

1 year

TIL this is how you send flowers for store openings in Japan. Chinese me scream funeral

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