Giorgio Strafella
@gstrafella.bsky.social
Associate Professor and dog dad at the Department of Asian Studies, Palacký University Olomouc
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Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China
Just published! Laura Vermeeren Ink Studies explores contemporary practices of calligraphy in China, situating them in both a precarious and dynamic position. While people are increasingly writing les...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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This is also happening in Prague, but last week the queue outside was too long, so hopefully I'll be able to post about it next month. "Rare treasures from the imperial collections of the National Palace Museum at the Historical Building of the National Museum"
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100 Treasures, 100 Stories - National museum
Visit the exceptional exhibition of rare treasures from the imperial collections of the National Palace Museum at the Historical Building of the National Museum!
www.nm.cz
October 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This is also happening in Prague, but last week the queue outside was too long, so hopefully I'll be able to post about it next month. "Rare treasures from the imperial collections of the National Palace Museum at the Historical Building of the National Museum"
www.nm.cz/en/program/e...
www.nm.cz/en/program/e...
These are the Chinese paintings currently on view at Salm Palace. I am told there will be changes in 3 and again in 6 months. Wen Zhengming (attr.), Baoshan Island, Vm 5950 ng.bach.cz/ng_vade/perm...
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
These are the Chinese paintings currently on view at Salm Palace. I am told there will be changes in 3 and again in 6 months. Wen Zhengming (attr.), Baoshan Island, Vm 5950 ng.bach.cz/ng_vade/perm...
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My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years.
#Sinology🀄️📚
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#Sinology🀄️📚
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Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory | Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture | Duke University Press
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years.
#Sinology🀄️📚
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#Sinology🀄️📚
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Today opens the new permanent collection of Asian art at the Salm Palace of the National Gallery in Prague.
October 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today opens the new permanent collection of Asian art at the Salm Palace of the National Gallery in Prague.
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This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025
A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."
September 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Dr Sijie Ren, who was supervised by @robertbickers and Adrian Howkins, was awarded the British Association for Chinese Studies 'Best Doctoral Thesis Prize' for their PhD “Science and Politics in Maoist China: The Synthetic Insulin Project and its Legacy."
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📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn
US judge preliminarily approves $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement
A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark $1.5 billion settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence company Anthropic, according to the authors' representatives.
www.reuters.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
📣We're delighted with the Court’s decision yesterday.
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn
It's a win for authors and rightsholders, and a step in the right direction towards compensation for the unlawful use of copyright-protected works. Big Tech is not above the law and creators’ rights cannot be ignored. ✊
tinyurl.com/4db9u2fn
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Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys
Alexandre Kojève
Boris Groys's new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with Hegel’s dialectics, his idea of communism and his visi...
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July 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Now available for preorder - Alexandre Kojève: An Intellectual Biography by Boris Groys
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Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies
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In this new essay, Sia X. Yang follows the journey of Ge Yulu, a once-precarious migrant artist whose bold gestures have been softened by institutional aesthetics. Yet a stubborn critical impulse endures—provoking, resisting, and reimagining the limits of art in contemporary China.
Radicalness in Suspension: From ‘Ge Yu Lu’ to Ge Yulu | Made in China Journal
This essay presents a case study of the widely known—and at times controversial—artist Ge Yulu and his interventionist practice. Through an account of Ge’s life and career, including his early years a...
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May 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
In this new essay, Sia X. Yang follows the journey of Ge Yulu, a once-precarious migrant artist whose bold gestures have been softened by institutional aesthetics. Yet a stubborn critical impulse endures—provoking, resisting, and reimagining the limits of art in contemporary China.
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Our project website ‘Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe’ is now live! Visit the site here: dig.sainsbury-instit...
July 7, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Our project website ‘Archives of Postwar Japanese Art in Europe’ is now live! Visit the site here: dig.sainsbury-instit...
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This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
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July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
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The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m
June 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m
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Includes an article on late imperial Chinese pests and the duck method by Yubin Shen 🦆🦆🦆
New special issue of OSIRIS: "Animal Mobilities" 🐫🐠🐛
The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers."
🔗 bit.ly/amv4025
#HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology
The volume was edited by MPIWG Research Scholars Tamar Novick, @lisaonaga.bsky.social, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg of the working groups "Out of Place, Out of Time" and "Proteins and Fibers."
🔗 bit.ly/amv4025
#HistSci #EnvHist #STS #Zoology
June 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Includes an article on late imperial Chinese pests and the duck method by Yubin Shen 🦆🦆🦆
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📍Call for Panels!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social
“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”
Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social
“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”
Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
May 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📍Call for Panels!
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social
“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”
Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social
“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”
Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals!
www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...
Fantastic chapters and an excellent editorial team
Now available open access: _Lyrical Experiments in Sinophone Verse_, ed. Justyna Jaguscik, Joanna Krenz, and Andrea Riemenschnitter. Lots of pathbreaking research into Chinese poetry written by workers, women, computers, Hong Kongers, and others on the edge. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
May 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Fantastic chapters and an excellent editorial team
Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters:
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doivup.upol.cz: Embodied Entanglements
Ideas on the (human) body, gender, and identity lie at the core of many socio-political issues and cultural trends in Asia today, while also inspiring innovative research on artistic expression from A...
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May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters:
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
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EU is moving away from reliance on US tech companies, rather than replacing them with proprietary alternatives, they are investing in open-source solutions instead.
EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
www.techspot.com/news/107225-...
EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
www.techspot.com/news/107225-...
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
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April 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
EU is moving away from reliance on US tech companies, rather than replacing them with proprietary alternatives, they are investing in open-source solutions instead.
EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
www.techspot.com/news/107225-...
EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
www.techspot.com/news/107225-...
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Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu #collegiumhistoriaeartium, kterou přednese Adam Przywara (Zürich) na téma Second Materiality of Warsaw: Building with Rubble in the Wake of World War II.
Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr.
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Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/pova...
April 3, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Srdečně zveme na další přednášku z cyklu #collegiumhistoriaeartium, kterou přednese Adam Przywara (Zürich) na téma Second Materiality of Warsaw: Building with Rubble in the Wake of World War II.
Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/pova...
Přednáška se uskuteční ve středu 9. 4. v 16.30 v #uduavcr.
www.udu.cas.cz/cz/akce/pova...
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Chinese #journalism is dead—long live #Chinese journalism!
The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today.
Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024
The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today.
Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024
April 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Chinese #journalism is dead—long live #Chinese journalism!
The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today.
Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024
The upcoming issue of 'MIC' explores the shifting terrain of journalistic production in and about #China, tracing the resilience, reinvention, and risks that define the profession today.
Register today doi.org/10.22459/MIC.09.02.2024
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AAS is proud to join the Middle East Studies Association and African Studies Association in this letter to the Columbia University leadership urging it to stand strong for academic freedom.
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March 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
AAS is proud to join the Middle East Studies Association and African Studies Association in this letter to the Columbia University leadership urging it to stand strong for academic freedom.
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Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood on the history of buteh for @iias.bsky.social newsletter (2021) www.iias.asia/the-newslett...
March 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood on the history of buteh for @iias.bsky.social newsletter (2021) www.iias.asia/the-newslett...
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I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.
“Another digital world is possible: not just a copy, but an alternative to the current ‘stack’ run by oligarchs around a US president who does not wish Europe well.”
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The EU needs the courage to imagine a different digital economy
Trump’s tech oligarchs are afraid of Europe’s regulatory power — as they should be
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February 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.
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Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.
After Art: Precarity and Expulsion in Songzhuang | Made in China Journal
Wang Chunchen’s 2010 monograph on the changing role of art in Chinese society opens and ends with accounts of the forced resettlement of artists and the sudden demolition of their studios in Beijing’s...
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December 11, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.