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A new ChinaRhyming update for May Day 2024 - Inventing China - open.substack.com/pub/paulfrench…
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Captive art: paintings from Stanley Internment Camp - HSBC History history.hsbc.com/collections/sn…
So this case is now scheduled for court in May 10th theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…
A card from The Chinese Restaurant on Glasshouse Street (they just demolished the building a few years ago sadly) from the 1950s/60s - just off Piccadilly Circus & open till midnight! Proving the ‘oldest’ claim of course would start long & passionate arguments….
I’m sure the DPRK watching crowd will enjoy bonkers Alejandro being back in the news courtesy of @bcamcrane bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Opinion | ‘Boomerang word’ katsu, a Japanese borrowing of the English cutlet, among 2024 Oxford English Dictionary new entries | South China Morning Post scmp.com/magazines/post…
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“In 1996 students at Columbia University demanded the creation of an ethnic studies program...students went on a hunger strike and occupied a building. The campaign led to the formation in 1998 of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.” Photo by #CorkyLee
Just published! My article ‘John van Collema: a Dutch India goods merchant in London’ in ‘Close Encounters’ @RKDnl Studies. If you’re interested in porcelain, retailing or Anglo-Dutch networks, this one’s for you. Best of all, it’s Open Access! close-encounters.rkdstudies.nl/9-john-van-col…
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To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we teamed up with 20 indie booksellers across America (all of North America, since one is in Ontario!), who have put up Hard Case Crime displays like the ones you see here. We can't thank them enough. 1/
The 1930s saw a rise in women's social standing, and tobacco companies were quick to jump on this trend. They started featuring women more prominently in their ads. The trend reached #Shanghai as well.
Where was the German Club in Old Shanghai? New post of the Shanghailander blog shanghailander.net/2024/04/shangh… #shanghai #germanclub #oldshanghai #concordiaclub #thebund #germannoerenaissance
Another @CityU_Press book One Man Talking. We'll be talking about the book at the RAS on Thursday at 6.30. See attached leaflet. If you want to join on Zoom please contact [email protected]
We're excited to share more details about the #CityU30thAnniversary special issue of Advanced Materials. The cover was created by our talented #designers at #CityUPress. Check it out here @WileyGlobal: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15214095/2… #Celebrate #CityU30 #CityUPress #VisualCommunication
Finished Harrison’s book on the history and politics behind the translation process during the first encounter of Chinese and British empires. Truly appreciative of its biographical approach. Takeaway: Languages are fundamental, and it’s a privilege to be able to study them!
Really enjoying listening to The Invention of China on Radio 4. I'm learning so much about Chinese history, including Mongolian throat singing, which is basically melodic belching 😂 🎵
Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson's Marriage to be Examined in New Book by Royal Biographer Andrew Lownie btimesonline.com/articles/16585…
I’m only doing a couple of events about adaptingMaggie & Me for stage. I’m delighted to be interviewed by one of my favourite writers @Chitgrrl @natlibscot in June. By then it will be out so no spoiler worries! I hope you can join us. Bring hankies. nls.uk/whats-on/maggi…
Livraria Portuguesa de Macau is hosting Courageous Confessions. Make sure to attend it on May 4. linkedin.com/events/courage…
Big fan of @MishaGlenny’s Invention of series: looking forward to pressing play
Heads up: ep2 @BBCRadio4 The Invention of China - To Kowtow or Not to Kowtow? With @MishaGlenny - BBCR4 at 11am GMT & then @BBCSounds
Coming May 16 - The Southern Tour by @jmchatwin Find out more / pre-order for 10% off: 📕bloomsbury.com/9781350435711/ #ChinaStudies
@jmchatwin and because Jonathan is too classy to plug it - out May 16th @BloomsburyPol Asian Arguments series - The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future bloomsbury.com/uk/southern-to…
Found in the @bookhive in Norwich - the 🇬🇧 edition of @CrimeReads editor-in-chief @DwyerMurphy’s latest #crime novel, from @noexitpress. Reading for the flight home? Sorted!
Delighted to learn that my book, Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, has been added to the library of 10 Downing Street. Might teach those politicians how to get things done! @johnmurrays @PicadorUSA indy100.com/politics/no-10…
“The last talented woman of the Republic of China" (民国最后一位才女), Zhang Chonghe张充和, in Yunnan, 1940. Born in Shanghai in 1914, moved to US in 1949, Zhang was a poet, calligrapher, educator and Kunqu opera singer.
The 1946-47 deportation of Chinese seamen, the Windrush scandal, now thousands of people fear being 'bundled into a van' to be deported to Rwanda. It's time for people who believe in common decency to speak up against to the UK's refugee expulsion policy. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a…