thank you so much for reading! I really enjoyed your McGill talk by the way

Our latest issue is here! The April edition features essays by Reem Abou-El-Fadl, @jbilik.bsky.social, Charlotte Ciavarella, Anwesha Ghosh, Daniel Hershenzon, Rao Mohsin Ali Noor, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, Sam Wilby, and Gabriel Young.

sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/04...

There's a good article on maps in pre-modern Japan that's relevant for African history on this point about boundaries:

"Many of our conventional mapping practices are ill-suited to the complexities and nuances of pre-modern politics"

culturalanalytics.org/article/8486...

Okazaki Katsuyo's graph of Marx's pre-capitalist economic formations

Charlotte Ciavarella's "Sustainable Disaster: Fantasies of Resilience, Global Adaptation Science, and East Asia’s Seawomen" is out on FirstView! #Development #Capitalism

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026.
www.sup.org/books/asian-...

My first article, which critiques the adapatation-resilience development paradigm by tracing its genealogy to prewar Japanese labor science and its influence on everything from austerity policies to anti-air conditioning, is now OA on cssh.

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

coming soon

the ones in the photo were uninhabited ruins at the time that picture was taken. I don't think it was very common but I have heard of some examples from Kyushu that existed into the postwar.

Yumi Kim's Madness in the Family

remains of the houses of cave-dwelling people in Shiroyama, Shizuoka (1914)

I got a rush of anti-AOC/the squad accounts for some reason

Godelier writes that the abandonment of hypothesis on the "multiplicity of forms of transition" transformed Marxist hypothesis into a "fixed formula"

the dobb-sweezy debate mirrored the existing two "opposing camps in" Japanese history
otsuka-school = dobb, unoists (by extension ronoha) = sweezy

Looking forward to participating in the February 3rd "Moving Aquafarms" panel with my co-presenter Matthew Morse Booker, alongside @chaciav.bsky.social and organizer Lijing Jiang.

whatever one might think of the 'asiatic mode of production,' perry anderson's criticism of it is quite underwhelming

In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5

Andrew Gordon and other historians are talking at a symposium about representations of postwar Japanese labour at Waseda on December 23.

I didn't know that! but it makes a lot of sense.

to your last point: I always think this footnote by Otsuka Hisao best gets at how his work is viewed on the Japanese side

South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

Americans and their disgust with garlic is really odd. I can't say I've ever experienced someone "smelling like garlic" but as an Italian maybe I'm immune

you could try some of these: bsky.app/profile/pseu...

done!

I made an economic history/history of capitalism in Asia starter pack since it's fairly underrepresented on the other lists. let me know if you'd like to be added or have any suggestions!
go.bsky.app/EdtMMtB

I don't think we should gatekeep history to experts but is it too much to ask to do basic research on the history your article is engaging with before writing a comparative piece on it?

I've tried my hand at it...
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I nominate @jolink.bsky.social

could you add me? thank you