Matthew W. Mosca
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Matthew W. Mosca
@mwmosca
Historian of early modern China and the world.
Seattle, WA Katılım Ekim 2009
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Out today: History-writing in the Qing realm, its Eurasian influence, and the afterlife of the Mongol Empire. hup.harvard.edu/books/97806743…
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To go on a more specific rant about how idiotic this is, based very narrowly on my own field (I expect pretty much any academic could offer a perspective from their own field that would bolster the basic point about how terrible this is):
David Porter@huwaliyasuntob
The United States has been lucky enough to develop a set of research and educational institutions that are the envy of the world and that bring immense economic and cultural benefit to the country. nytimes.com/2025/05/22/us/…
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It's alive! My book now has a webpage on the @ucpress website: ucpress.edu/books/in-the-g… Will be available open access in April 2025!
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@HistorianZhang System works great as long as everyone remembers at all times and in all circumstances never to show a tank in proximity to Tiananmen because...no reason, no reason at all, just forget about it. But also remember!
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I feel like at some point this kind of censorship is doing the opposite of what it's trying to achieve
李老师不是你老师@whyyoutouzhele
9月26日，陕西汉中。国庆临近，幼儿园外家长们带着孩子制作的手工品排队进校，其中有一位家长手里拿着“天安门”另一位家长手捧坦克。该视频随即被平台删除。
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I think I'm supposed to post at least once or twice when a nice review of my book comes out, this one in the AHR
academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…
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Debate Mao: What they have done to our country by allowing these Four Pests to come into our country….In Bengbu, they're eating the wheat. The sparrows that came in. Eating the sorghum. They're eating -- they're eating the grains of the people that live there. And it's a shame.
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And now for something completely different: visualizingcultures.mit.edu/cause_of_the_r…
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ@egasmb
Here is a Chinese depiction of Jesus on the cross
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Fascinating services pitched to academics. Aside from ed-tech vultures, people have offered to (for a fee) make me a Wiki page (allegedly this would show off my stature), make my book into a comic, and translate it into Russian. And ac dot edu promises to up my citation stats.
Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️@chenchenzh
might be the most insane unsolicited advert I received in my work email yet some "research podcast" company offers to turn my article into podcast for just 1.5k or 4.5k man I make podcast for free
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Reminded of Russian historian who returned from first conference with PRC colleagues and said to me, with genuine bafflement, "Do they really think the Russian Far East was stolen from China? Don't they know that it was originally seized from Russia by the Kangxi emperor?!"
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Just learned that MS Word offers geopolitical advice. (Here "Dongbei Pingyuan" is not equivalent and crazy for English prose; "Manchuria" vs. "NE China" is complex choice based on period/topic.) Mostly can't believe MS would voluntarily touch third rail of geographic name advice.
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Chiang Kai-shek was the first person who could have told you this. (Maybe a case to be made for Feng Yuxiang as well...)
Timothy McLaughlin@TMclaughlin3
Absolutely say no to the TIME Magazine cover story if you are a leader in Asia.
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One of my crank opinions is that no academic journal should commission a review of fewer than 2000 words for any history book. 600 words = rehashed chapter outline. 800 words = did they really read whole book? 1200 words = can still wiggle out of giving a clear judgment.
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"Moreover, we have caused Russia – remote in the northern wastes – to study our dynastic script [i.e., Manchu] and understand appropriate behavior and duty; to open their trade and subject themselves to our restraint." (綏服紀略序, 1823).
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Came across this line by the Qing-era Mongol bannerman Sungyun and had to chuckle when I recalled that Putin is supposedly having his family learn Chinese: 且以僻在北荒之俄羅斯, 俾之習國書而曉禮義, 開市易而歸約束. (Obvs. 國書 here is Manchu). Translation follows:
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Normal in Vancouver as well, maybe even more widespread than in SF? I don't think this practice aroused the same controversy in Vancouver as it has in SF.
James Lin @jamestwotree.bsky.social@jamestwotree
San Francisco has a unique political culture where candidates carefully choosing Chinese names are a tradition and sometimes even contested. Local, diasporic practices may seem unexpected to those from the center. See sfstandard.com/2023/12/04/san…
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This situation is barely comprehensible. Like, should-this-journal-even-exist, how-can-libraries-be-paying-money-for-it incomprehensible. The editorial board of this journal contains some of the most distinguished scholars in the field.
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Am I the only person who remembers that Duterte threatened to declare war on Canada because someone shipped a container full of garbage from Canada to the Philippines? npr.org/2019/04/24/716…
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When you dip your toe into running anything in academia just a tiny bit, you realize how many people you need to talk to plan/execute almost anything outside of the narrow routine, and how obviously their job (whatever their title) is reducing legal/regulatory risk.
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Plenty of academics say 'Fire the expensive administrators, lower costs, return to core teaching mission!' I sympathize. But very few would advocate dismantling the various legal obligations schools are under, which come with legal/regulatory risks./
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Something rarely mentioned in "mysterious surge in administrators" academic discourse is their role in legal/regulatory compliance/not getting sued. US higher ed subject to far more legislation today than 50 years ago, mostly to promote outcomes most academics support./
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