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Wen-Yi Huang
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Historian of China & Taiwan | Migration & environmental history | An Wang Postdoc at Harvard, 2018-2019. McGill Uni Ph.D.
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A 500-year history of floods on the Yangtze River in China—reconstructed from sediment, historical records, and climate data—shows that peak flooding occurred during the Little Ice Age and that embankments and enclosures increase flood risk. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/vkZ450Zx3PL
An oxbow lake in China's Jianghan Plain preserves clues to centuries of Yangtze River flood history. CREDIT: Shi-Yong Yu.
August 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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In honor of #WorldHorseDay, learn more about the fascinating genomic history of horse domestication with Horses! Orlando blends panoramic storytelling with cutting-edge genetic science to chronicle a new era of speed.

Save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
July 11, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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nicolleness.bsky.social
Very interesting new sustainability book! (Open-access!)
July 8, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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lisaonaga.bsky.social
Do you know any places named for animal-human relations? I'm thoroughly enjoying this thought-provoking #teaching module by Youjia Li on the "Ox-Town" (Shibakuruma-chō) of 18th-century Tokyo.

🐂 Teaching Animal Mobilities website 🐂 animalmobilities.org/modules/2026... #HistSci #animals #mobility
The Ox-Town
Hundreds of oxen traveled over a thousand kilometers to pull carts through the shogun’s capital. This module asks how working cattle shaped urban space, inspired iconic art, and became symbols of Edo’...
animalmobilities.org
July 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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dudleymarianna.bsky.social
The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater
More-than-human perspectives
Militaries & water
Trade & transport
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Current Calls for Papers
Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world
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July 3, 2026 at 9:14 AM
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Check out Samuel Cocks's review of "Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments," edited by Jeffrey Moser and Jason Protas, published in 2025 by University of Hawaiʻi Press; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhum #envhist
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July 1, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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"Archives of the Anthropocene" by @Yuriko Furuhata@underground259 examines how visual inscriptions of geological strata, ice, clouds, and coral reefs mediate the extractive modes of seeing Earth’s depths and heights. Read the intro now for free: buff.ly/Xe022xa
Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time by Yuriko Furuhata. The cover is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images. The top half of the cover features a black fuzzy image. The bottom half features tan paper with a diagram on it. The title is written in all caps in a sans serif font. The letters in ‘ARCHIVES’ show a map and text. The subtitle is written in a bright teal. The author’s name is in yellow.
June 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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As I always enjoy depictions of waves in Chinese prints, I want to share two more water-themed works from the 龍圖公案. The water appears quite stormy and dangerous in this print. (1/2)
#ChinaBooks #Sinology
May 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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New book is out! Before and Beyond Pingcheng: The Xianbei in Inner Mongolia (4th-6th Centuries), edited by Annette L. Juliano & Judith A. Lerner.
Link: pse.is/98r72s
#China
June 23, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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The @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee is pleased to announce our #AAS2027 sponsored panels! "Remapping Indigeneity: Belonging and Identity in Asia, Past & Present" and "Popular Culture Across Global Asias: Identity, Diaspora, and Representation"! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-pro...
Call for Proposals: AAS Diversity and Equity Committee Designated Sessions - Association for Asian Studies
The Diversity and Equity Committee of the Association for Asian Studies invites applications for its two designated sessions at the 2027 Annual Conference, which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts,...
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June 17, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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Researching East Asian medical history? Dr. Matthew Hayes recently announced the digitization of Duke Library’s late Edo period medical manuscripts! The collection shows the diversity of medical knowledge in the early 19th c. Explore 63 volumes: archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/japa... #NCCSpecialist
June 13, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Back from grading AP world history exams in Louisville--going to spend this week working on an upcoming conference talk on weather in early medieval Gaul: www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Ancient Weather Perspectives | Radboud University
This project investigates the way in which weather influenced the lives of people in Late Antiquity.
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June 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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All articles from our recently published special issue of postmedieval, "Imagining East Asia in the Palaeoanthropocene" are available to all for the month of February! Please have a look! #envhum #ecocrit
postmedieval | Volume 14, issue 4
Volume 14, issue 4 articles listing for postmedieval
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February 6, 2024 at 8:19 PM
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"The restriction of the Yaoguai’s agency to predictable, encoded movements raises awareness of the complexities of femininity and womanhood set in a fictionalized version of ancient China." - Ian Boes

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#PrideMonth #envhum #genderstudies #videogame
Webs of a Monstrous Spirit: Queerfeminist and Chinese Folkloric Entanglements in The Rewinder 山海旅人
My entanglement with Yun prompts me to ask: whose senses require stimulation to rework the fate of the Spider Yaoguai? How does she embody the game's Chinese-Daoist notion on monstrosity?
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June 4, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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paularcurtis.bsky.social
I am proud to share the website my students and I collaborated on this term showcasing UCLA's Ainu-related collections! ✨ Together we researched holdings of the library, Special Collections, and Fowler Museum to document and enhance catalog information on their materials. peopleofthenorth.github.io
Screencap of a website titled "People of the North: Ainu Collections at UCLA" with subsections titled "Home" "About" "Ainu History" "Mapping the North" "Ainu as Objects" and "Ainu Through Objects". In the head background is a painted picture of a bear laid out in front of Ainu figures with offerings and goods as part of the iyomante ceremony.
June 10, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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After a two-and-a-half-year hiatus, my blog is finally back. Subscribe if you're interested in updates on new books and the latest research on Early and Early Medieval China. earlychinasinology.blogspot.com
上窮碧落下黃泉
漢学‧Early China‧Early Medieval China‧
earlychinasinology.blogspot.com
June 10, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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For @nybooks.com, I wrote about my professor the (alleged) papyri thief, and the long history of papyrological misdeeds www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Paper Trail | Madeleine Schwartz
The investigation into the origin of papyrus fragments that the owners of Hobby Lobby purchased from an Oxford scholar underscores papyrology’s long history of shady deals and ulterior motives.
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June 8, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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"Transnational Plant Studies," a special issue of Cultural Politics edited by Sushmita Chatterjee and Banu Subramaniam, is now available. View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/EhEbaJG
Journal cover with colorful plantlike abstract forms on black grid background and Transnational Plant Studies title
June 8, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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theplantinitiative.bsky.social
Free, online - Rights of Nature by Tribal and First Nations learning session by Kincentric Leadership & The Repatterning Collective. Wed, Jun 10, 2026, 11am-12pm CDT. "What if the Rights of Nature were not a legal innovation, but the oldest law there is?" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-of-...
Rights of Nature by Tribal and First Nations learning session
Join us for an ONLINE LEARNING SESSION for practitioners, as part of the Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox
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June 2, 2026 at 9:48 PM
wenyihuangtw.bsky.social
I’m compiling a reading list on Southeast Asian environmental history for my students. Do you have any suggestions for mus-read classics or new book released? ( We gonna discuss Faizah Zakaria’s next week)
#envhis
May 29, 2026 at 3:25 AM
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dfeds.bsky.social
adding this to my growing folder of material for an essay on gardening in the ashes of Japan's burnt-out cities (defeat gardens?)
May 21, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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unseenjapan.com
Traditionally, there were only four words used to describe colors in Japanese: red (赤い), black (黒い), white (白い), and blue (青い). Educational materials didn't formally distinguish 緑 (midori) as a separate color until after WWII.
Colors in Japanese: Not as Black and White as You'd Think - Unseen Japan
Did you know that Japanese once only had four colors? A look at the interesting evolution of color vocabulary in the Japanese language.
unseen-japan.com
May 15, 2026 at 5:03 AM
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In "Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT," Debra Rosenthal conveys conversations with environmental ethicists and sustainability scholars about the troubling impacts of generative AI on planetary ecosystems. (5/)

www.aaup.org/issue/spring...
Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT
Should generative AI be used in courses on the climate crisis?
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May 13, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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A video of the recent MJHA "New Books on Japan" discussion with Jung Lee regarding her "Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea" (Routledge, 2025) is now available on the MJHA YouTube channel!
New Books on Japan: Jung Lee, "Renaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial Korea"
YouTube video by Modern Japan History Association
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May 13, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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dfeds.bsky.social
if you happen to be 1) interested in Korea; 2) interested in the environmental humanities; and 3) in SoCal in early June, please consider coming to a conference I've organized with my dear colleagues Eleana Kim, Albert Park, and Juwon Lee.

Details 👇
May 11, 2026 at 5:35 PM