Also, congratulations on the forthcoming book!

I also did a complete reorganization, turning 8 chapters into 5, switching from thematic chapters to thematic+chronology, adding significant new material and (like you) pulling out a chapter that was published as a stand alone article. Amy’s analogy is a good one. It was not a fun revision process.

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Photograph of the cover of the book "Concubines in Public: The Rise of the Social Wife in Republican China" by historian Xia SHI, resting on a side table with a knit chicken and a stack of books in the background.

I was delighted to get this book by my fellow UCI alum, Xia Shi, in the mail late last week, a natural follow-up to her first book on elite women int he early Republic. Looking forward to more reading time with it in May.

Black text on newsprint announcing the newest class of Guggenheim Fellows

A privilege and a pleasure to celebrate the 101st Class of Fellows with an announcement in the @nytimes.com 🎉

Popular author discovers SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW OMG: "My book tells the untold history of....!!!!!!"

Actual historian: no. we all know that already. sorry.

Here I am at the UNC Press booth with my amazing editor @catehodorowicz.bsky.social and MY BOOK.

Congratulations!!!

Thank you!

Yes, just out. Thank you for the congrats -- and it's flattering to hear that the book is being well received in Paris! There's some wonderful Chinese history work happening in Paris these days.

Thank you!

Concubines in Public Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Concubines in Public

haha! My friend Shi Xia has kind of just written that book! Her work is excellent. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

I'm honored to have been named a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow and thrilled it will allow me to dig in on my next book, The Long Resistance: Dissent and Disunity in China's War with Japan. So grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and the many who have supported my work in so many ways. #guggfellows2026

Review of Pierre Fuller's 2022 book, Modern Erasures, up at PRC History Review. Minerva Inwald reflects on Fuller's exploration of how early/mid 20c modernizers constructed China as a place "devoid of public morality." With response from Fuller.

I am so sad to see this news. Harriet just oversaw the publication of my most recent article in NanNü in November, giving thoughtful suggestions. A broad thinker, generous and supportive of other scholars.

Blood On the Page: On Jane Austen’s Period Drama Mashing up Jane Austen’s fiction with zombies, erotica, or extraterrestrials has become so common in pop culture that such stuff may no longer raise an eyebrow. Pride & Prejudice & Zombies …

More about it here

JANE AUSTEN'S PERIOD DRAMA / 2026 Oscar®-Nominated Short Film YouTube video by JULIA AKS

Not the period drama you might expect.

What’s weird (among many aspects) about this piece is that its tone is, “lo, in those halcyon days of yore” and it’s about, like, 2013.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I'm thinking of you, and of Janet's family and colleagues.

“We must come to realize that if we live long enough, every one of us will experience disability. Instead of viewing those with disabilities or chronic illness as unproductive or no longer useful, we must fight for a society that measures its health by how well it cares for those who need the most.”

"Generations of Chinese women have been rendered voiceless by the patriarchy. Their stories refuse soft burials."
So honored to have a review essay out in Banned Books Week @chinabooksreview.com on two of Fang Fang's most acclaimed novels, Soft Burial & The Running Flame, tr. @bairuiwen.bsky.social:

Looking forward to reading this!

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In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is beautifully translated! I love the line “preached the Dharma so movingly that even the pebbles nodded.” Thank you for sharing it.

Mid-Autumn, Tiger Hill, Late Ming "Everyone was perfectly silent, even the mosquitoes."

For the Mid-Autumn Festival, I translated the 17th century failson, epicure, and memoirist Zhang Dai's account of the annual Mid-Autumn singing competition on Tiger Hill in Suzhou. www.burninghou.se/p/mid-autumn...

Very nice to see a piece by @laujessie.bsky.social of @nuvoices.bsky.social in @thetls.bsky.social

No convincing needed for me on the importance of both. My framing was more persuasive (getting people who might assume it isn't relevant to them bc of the venue to read it) than value-based or about disciplinary boundary-policing.

Of course! I simply meant that the ideas and reflections on computer vision/related ideas also have relevance for those of us who primarily work with texts. Perhaps I ought to have said: relevant and useful for all humanists.

Incredibly thoughtful piece on the uses (or lack thereof) of AI. Historians will find this thinking relevant too.