Kate Lingley 龍梅若
@klingley.bsky.social
Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
I've been sharing some of the old protest songs I grew up on with the teenagers, for obvious reasons, and told them about the time a bunch of us mostly US Sinologists were asked to participate in an event marking the July 1 anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in Dunhuang.
January 28, 2026 at 9:10 PM
I've been sharing some of the old protest songs I grew up on with the teenagers, for obvious reasons, and told them about the time a bunch of us mostly US Sinologists were asked to participate in an event marking the July 1 anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, in Dunhuang.
In memory of the liberation of Auschwitz, and therefore on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, our own family story of survival and resistance (open access!). Uncle Aharon lived a long and good life and his memory is a blessing.
Kaddishel : a life reborn : Golub, Aharon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
374 p. : 24 cm
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January 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
In memory of the liberation of Auschwitz, and therefore on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, our own family story of survival and resistance (open access!). Uncle Aharon lived a long and good life and his memory is a blessing.
Going back to this because I was just teaching perspective in my mod/contemp China course, and part of the background to understanding how 18th-century painters received, or declined to receive, Renaissance-style optical perspective is to look at perspective in premodern Chinese painting (thread).
remembering how I once was assigned a book for class that was entirely analysis of the optical distortion of the mirror in Manet's "Bar at the Folies-Bergère"; no one liked my suggestion that he just fudged the optics so that he could paint more of the room
January 27, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Going back to this because I was just teaching perspective in my mod/contemp China course, and part of the background to understanding how 18th-century painters received, or declined to receive, Renaissance-style optical perspective is to look at perspective in premodern Chinese painting (thread).
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Ah yes, Mainers: a people never known for their stubbornness and insistence on doing things the hard, right way. I'm sure these strong-arm tactics will have their intended effect on a state with the motto of, last I checked, "Well that's your problem right there" said in a cutting Downeast accent.
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Ah yes, Mainers: a people never known for their stubbornness and insistence on doing things the hard, right way. I'm sure these strong-arm tactics will have their intended effect on a state with the motto of, last I checked, "Well that's your problem right there" said in a cutting Downeast accent.
I gave my students an in-class writing assignment in which I asked them to reflect on whether visual art styles can be inherently political. One student gave me a magnificent rant on the recent rise of politically conservative art styles. (1/3)
January 27, 2026 at 1:05 AM
I gave my students an in-class writing assignment in which I asked them to reflect on whether visual art styles can be inherently political. One student gave me a magnificent rant on the recent rise of politically conservative art styles. (1/3)
I finished the central square of my Orenburg shawl and laid it out to see before picking up 1080 stitches around the outside to knit on the edging. The central square was 530 rows and the edging is only 42 rows more, so I thought I was almost done, but 4 sides means it’s effectively 168 rows 😫
January 2, 2026 at 8:17 AM
I finished the central square of my Orenburg shawl and laid it out to see before picking up 1080 stitches around the outside to knit on the edging. The central square was 530 rows and the edging is only 42 rows more, so I thought I was almost done, but 4 sides means it’s effectively 168 rows 😫
We also bought this sweet little coin-silver spice box for havdalah, amusingly mislabeled “vintage incense burner.”
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 AM
We also bought this sweet little coin-silver spice box for havdalah, amusingly mislabeled “vintage incense burner.”
Full circle: saw an amazing exhibition of contemporary Pueblo pottery at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, then went antiquing in LA and found a beautiful jar signed by the Acoma Pueblo artist Corinne Chino.
December 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Full circle: saw an amazing exhibition of contemporary Pueblo pottery at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, then went antiquing in LA and found a beautiful jar signed by the Acoma Pueblo artist Corinne Chino.
Hanukkah when the boys were four:
Me: Eat your supper and then we can have some sufganiyot.
Twin A: What's sufganiyot?
Me: That's Hebrew for "malasadas."
Me: Eat your supper and then we can have some sufganiyot.
Twin A: What's sufganiyot?
Me: That's Hebrew for "malasadas."
The rule of Hanukkah: If it fries, it flies
I'm thinking fried sesame balls stuffed with red bean paste, à la the popular Chinese dessert, would be a great addition.
December 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Hanukkah when the boys were four:
Me: Eat your supper and then we can have some sufganiyot.
Twin A: What's sufganiyot?
Me: That's Hebrew for "malasadas."
Me: Eat your supper and then we can have some sufganiyot.
Twin A: What's sufganiyot?
Me: That's Hebrew for "malasadas."
Wow it is incredibly frustrating to put significant time into commenting on a student's paper draft in an effort to give them advice on how to improve it, only to find as I work my way through that significant parts of it were written by an LLM.
December 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Wow it is incredibly frustrating to put significant time into commenting on a student's paper draft in an effort to give them advice on how to improve it, only to find as I work my way through that significant parts of it were written by an LLM.
I get Lingely, Langley, and Longley pretty regularly, but this is a new one for me 🤔
(also, this is the *fourth* paper of the semester)
(also, this is the *fourth* paper of the semester)
December 9, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I get Lingely, Langley, and Longley pretty regularly, but this is a new one for me 🤔
(also, this is the *fourth* paper of the semester)
(also, this is the *fourth* paper of the semester)
TFW your volcano webcam is destroyed by lava 😯
Enormous Lava Fountain Erupts At Kilauea, Destroys Webcam (Dec. 6, 2025)
YouTube video by Big Island Video News
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December 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
TFW your volcano webcam is destroyed by lava 😯
Stealth Buddhism alert! Started watching Whispers of Fate out of curiosity - I am not, on the whole, a huge xianxia fan, preferring my costume dramas to be more historical. It is so visually beautiful that I am sticking with it nevertheless, and I am struck by how covertly Buddhist it is:
水龙吟: Whispers of Fate - YouTube
Native Title: 水龙吟 Also Known As: Qian Jie Mei , Shui Long Yin , The Dragon Chant , Water Dragon's Chant , 千劫眉 , 水龍吟 Director: Chen Zhou Fei, Qian Jing Wu Gen...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Stealth Buddhism alert! Started watching Whispers of Fate out of curiosity - I am not, on the whole, a huge xianxia fan, preferring my costume dramas to be more historical. It is so visually beautiful that I am sticking with it nevertheless, and I am struck by how covertly Buddhist it is:
Work-bathroom selfie. My kid calls this the “total art historian fit” and it bothers me professionally, because I think he’s right, but how does he know?
(Slightly bohemian baggy pants from Target and top from Marshalls, purchased under duress in Sarasota when my luggage was lost.)
(Slightly bohemian baggy pants from Target and top from Marshalls, purchased under duress in Sarasota when my luggage was lost.)
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Work-bathroom selfie. My kid calls this the “total art historian fit” and it bothers me professionally, because I think he’s right, but how does he know?
(Slightly bohemian baggy pants from Target and top from Marshalls, purchased under duress in Sarasota when my luggage was lost.)
(Slightly bohemian baggy pants from Target and top from Marshalls, purchased under duress in Sarasota when my luggage was lost.)
I mean I’m Jewish and we don’t celebrate Christmas at all, but I was also trained in the Royal School of Church Music and certain things are just hard-wired, like Advent and Christmas music. Himself (grew up Jewish, unlike me) is in Apia at a conference so the boys and I are indulging
Ah yes, November 30, the first Sunday of Advent this year, apparently it's time for my lapsed Catholic agnostic ass to start yelling about keeping Advent spooky as fuck! MAY YOUR CANDLELIGHT BE MYSTERIOUS AND YOUR CHORDS CRUNCHY.
a man wearing headphones and a blue shirt is giving a thumbs up in front of a checkered wall .
Alt: a man wearing headphones and a blue shirt is giving a thumbs up in front of a checkered wall and mouthing "Back at it again" which is also what the text above him says.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
I mean I’m Jewish and we don’t celebrate Christmas at all, but I was also trained in the Royal School of Church Music and certain things are just hard-wired, like Advent and Christmas music. Himself (grew up Jewish, unlike me) is in Apia at a conference so the boys and I are indulging
The teenagers have gone out for hamburgers with their friends. What will I do with my one wild and precious Shabbat afternoon?
November 29, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The teenagers have gone out for hamburgers with their friends. What will I do with my one wild and precious Shabbat afternoon?
Now thinking about how to work a reference to Darmok into my paper on the uses of convention (and allusion) in sixth-century epigraphy 🤔
sometimes a large proportion of being a medievalist is darmoking shit with reference to tolkien
November 29, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Now thinking about how to work a reference to Darmok into my paper on the uses of convention (and allusion) in sixth-century epigraphy 🤔
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What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
What are the mitzves of Thanks Giving, a festive meal, to eat the turkey bird, to hear the story of thepilgrim, to watch the football game. And some say to argue with an uncle.
Except, of course, that my knees are 30 years older.
However, it's also true that the pipe that drains my kitchen sink and dishwasher is blocked at the moment, so for the past few days I've been doing the dishes by hand, in a plastic basin, squatting beside the bathtub, and that's just as much a return to the 1990s (in my experience) as the rest.
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Except, of course, that my knees are 30 years older.
Art meets Life: I've been watching this series called 雪迷宫 (English title "The First Shot"). It's set in 1997 in a fictional northern city called Halan, and it's about a special police unit dealing with the first influx of meth into the city. In some ways it's a typical anti-drugs series BUT:
雪迷宫; The First Shot - YouTube
Native Title: 雪迷宫 Also Known As: First Shot , Da Yi Qiang , Xue Mi Gong , 第一枪 Screenwriter: Zhang Yuan Ang, Mai Li Ya Si Director: Lu Xing, Chen Zhou Fei Gen...
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November 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Art meets Life: I've been watching this series called 雪迷宫 (English title "The First Shot"). It's set in 1997 in a fictional northern city called Halan, and it's about a special police unit dealing with the first influx of meth into the city. In some ways it's a typical anti-drugs series BUT:
As usual Kody is thinking smart thoughts about art making. It reminds me of a throughline in my own current research, which I have worked through in several recent talks: the uses of convention and its significance, in contrast to the unconventional. A thread:
Been thinking about art-making and intentionality all day and how that intentionality - that level of decisiveness that's joyously required if you don't have a kitchen of chefs who want up their minds in post - is what I love about art, and, on the flip side, is also why AI generations suck.
November 20, 2025 at 2:20 AM
As usual Kody is thinking smart thoughts about art making. It reminds me of a throughline in my own current research, which I have worked through in several recent talks: the uses of convention and its significance, in contrast to the unconventional. A thread:
Third season of “Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty” 唐朝诡事录之长安 just dropped, and I was going to wait, but gave in and it does not disappoint as far as the production having done its homework. The first story arc is called 康国之金桃 “The Golden Peaches of Samarkand” which, yes please
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Third season of “Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty” 唐朝诡事录之长安 just dropped, and I was going to wait, but gave in and it does not disappoint as far as the production having done its homework. The first story arc is called 康国之金桃 “The Golden Peaches of Samarkand” which, yes please
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The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
October 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The level of pumpkin carving to which I aspire
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
(By the artist Michael Cherney)
「忽肚痛不可堪，不知是冷熱所致，欲服大黃湯，冷熱俱有益。如何為計，非臨床。」
An auntroduction!
Honestly one of my fav academic article titles ever:
‘Critical aunty studies: an auntroduction’ by Kareem Khubchandani
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘Critical aunty studies: an auntroduction’ by Kareem Khubchandani
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Critical aunty studies: an auntroduction
Though aunties are ubiquitous figures across global public cultures, they have received limited scholarly attention. Given the location of these women, femme, and queer figures at the periphery of ...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:33 AM
An auntroduction!