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Yiming Ha
@historianyha.bsky.social
AP @ HKBU
Yuan-Ming military and social history and Eurasian empires
Founder and host of The Chinese History Podcast
Book review editor for Ming Studies
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A new episode of the Chinese History Podcast is out! In this companion episode to my interview with Scott Pearce, I interview Andrew Chittick about the Southern Dynasties and their place in Chinese History. #🀄📚 #sinology #chinesehistory #china #history
The Southern Dynasties: An Interview with Professor Andrew Chittick | The Chinese History Podcast
Between 304 and 589 CE, China was divided into rivaling regimes occupying North and South China. While the north was controlled by a series of non-Han Chinese peoples, ultimately culminating in the Xi...
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Who is Tim Kaine @kaine.senate.gov trying to gaslight? He voted for the same thing that the Republicans offered a month ago. So it was 40 days for nothing.
Thune says he offered Democrats a vote on Obamacare subsidies to end government shutdown
Schumer said the GOP did not offer any proposal to vote to extend the subsidies.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Tim Kaine truly is an idiot. Federal workers were only fired because the government shut down. If that's the case you might as well have kept the government open in the first place. All they got out of it was the same thing Thune offered them in the first place, a promised vote on the ACA 🙄
My statement on the funding deal to reopen government, protect federal employees, and vote to protect health care:
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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The Fourth Middle-Period China Humanities conference in Hong Kong, summer 2026. Hope to see many of you there!
September 11, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Wow Trump sounds so jealous he wasn't invited
September 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.
August 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Officially started at HKU today!
July 30, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Somewhat of a culture shock here in HK: so many people just loiter in furniture stores, sitting on the sofas and seats playing with their phones 😂
July 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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2026 will mark the fourth consecutive year that the study of Mongol Eurasia has been presented in separate panels at @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Here is the call for papers. Spread the word and come along! #mongolsky #tengri #medievalsky
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July 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
What a sad reality we live in when the AAS has to put out a travel concern notice for people traveling FROM the US
July 20, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Very sad news about Andrew West, an online friend to many of us on here, who had a rare combination of expertises and was always generous with advice on 'Phags-pa script wine advertisements, fake Yuan-dynasty passports, and less-explored reaches of the higher Unicode planes.
July 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
This week in weird translations in China, how about some "grains as hard" for breakfast?
July 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Hah, anyone want to try the tea that those damn American colonists dumped into the harbor? 😂
July 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I think secretly the Dems DO want this bill to pass, because just like Dobbs and abortion, this will help them tremendously in the midterms
Speaker Johnson should just take the L on this vote. Most of America doesn’t want this bill to pass anyways. It’s it both the worst and most unpopular piece of legislation in modern history.
July 3, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This place is a paradise for historians of China
June 25, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Xi is going to show Trump how it's done:

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China to mark 80th WWII anniversary with military parade in September
Russian president among those expected to attend commemorations in the Chinese capital.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What a clown
June 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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Another big AAA game beautifully set in a Chinese setting. This time after the fall of the Tang.

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Blood Message - Official Reveal Trailer | When History Forgets, Warriors Remember
YouTube video by Blood Message
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June 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Would you like to read some books on Buddhist philosophy or "the Buddhism"? 🤔
June 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
This is Nanshan 南山 Park in Jinzhou 錦州. It was here that the Battle of Songjin was fought between Qing and Ming forces between 1639-1641. The mountain is also called 罕王殿山.
June 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Another Chinese toilet sign. According to this Chinese people don't flush and foreigners don't throw away their trash 😂
June 15, 2025 at 4:58 AM
The mosque in my hometown. The domes have been demolished and replaced with Chinese architecture, no Arabic is allowed, and the crescent is now on display instead
June 14, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I love this translation 😂
June 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Goodbye California and USA! Ready for the next adventure in Asia and Hong Kong!
June 12, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Sneak preview - before booking opens - of the rather amazing line-up of speakers for a Chinese art conference in Oxford this September. I'm hugely honoured that colleagues want to do this, it will be a memorable gathering. #arthistory #China
Echoes of Great Brightness: The Ming Dynasty and Beyond
www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
June 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Well that didn't take long
June 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM