Konrad Lawson
@kml.muninn.net
Historian of modern East Asia he/him; Lecturer at University of St Andrews; From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland. 林蜀道 https://muninn.net
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"Technology is the active human interface with the material world".
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
The folks over at the Ursula K. Le Guin Foundation are awesome. They made a new website and as a result, some content was removed. I sent an email to see if they could restore Le Guin’s “A Rant About ‘Technology’” — and they did!
Go read it: www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
Go read it: www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about...
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"Technology is the active human interface with the material world".
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
I often think about this. but especially the cotton flower... like, computers and phones are cool. but, our ancestors who looked at a fluffy cotton flower and decided: you know what I'm going to turn this into a dress??
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This is an incredible project. Zooming in on my current home of Chester it shows how the current main streets run right overtop the route of the old Roman roads (I expect the offset is due to the map, not the terrain)
November 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is an incredible project. Zooming in on my current home of Chester it shows how the current main streets run right overtop the route of the old Roman roads (I expect the offset is due to the map, not the terrain)
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/b...
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
In Chinese American Families, There’s a Generational Split on Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/b...
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
"In 1976, Song Ying swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong...
Today, at 72, she is a New Yorker who voted for President Trump three times and voted early for Andrew M. Cuomo in Tuesday’s mayoral election."
This will be out soon and I don’t think it is an exaggeration to say it is the most important contribution to the history of the Zainichi Korean community in Japan so far. Fantastic work. #japan #korea
Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026.
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Really appreciate the Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for organizing this Issco conference, met so many distinguished scholars, what a great two days experience!
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Really appreciate the Universiti Malaya, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for organizing this Issco conference, met so many distinguished scholars, what a great two days experience!
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Come hang out next year! #medievalsky
The Department of Medieval History at the University of St Andrews invites applications for the Donald Bullough Fellowship to be taken up during either semester of the academic year 2026-2027.
The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.
The closing date for applications is Monday 1 December 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Come hang out next year! #medievalsky
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Fantastic resource for 18thC historians!
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Fantastic resource for 18thC historians!
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This week I received four items through interlibrary loan and document delivery, and I gotta say, that service suite continues to be a shining example of society functioning as it should. Eduroam is another.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
This week I received four items through interlibrary loan and document delivery, and I gotta say, that service suite continues to be a shining example of society functioning as it should. Eduroam is another.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
Thank your librarians working on ILL in the background. They do saintly work.
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某国の暴力的で無秩序な移民逮捕やそれに対する周辺住民の抵抗の動画がたくさん流れてきて心を痛める日々だけれども。。。
日本も1947年から1961年の間に182,700人の在日朝鮮人を逮捕、強制送還したってこと忘れがち。1952年までは日本国籍があったにも関わらず。
日本も1947年から1961年の間に182,700人の在日朝鮮人を逮捕、強制送還したってこと忘れがち。1952年までは日本国籍があったにも関わらず。
November 4, 2025 at 1:17 AM
某国の暴力的で無秩序な移民逮捕やそれに対する周辺住民の抵抗の動画がたくさん流れてきて心を痛める日々だけれども。。。
日本も1947年から1961年の間に182,700人の在日朝鮮人を逮捕、強制送還したってこと忘れがち。1952年までは日本国籍があったにも関わらず。
日本も1947年から1961年の間に182,700人の在日朝鮮人を逮捕、強制送還したってこと忘れがち。1952年までは日本国籍があったにも関わらず。
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It seems unreal after so many years in preparation, but my Hobsbawm book is almost there! It now has a front cover and a place on the publisher's website. Publication is due in August.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Age of Hobsbawm — Harvard University Press
An intellectual biography of Eric Hobsbawm, one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.Eric Hobsbawm (1917–2012) was one of the foremost European intellectuals of the twentieth cent...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It seems unreal after so many years in preparation, but my Hobsbawm book is almost there! It now has a front cover and a place on the publisher's website. Publication is due in August.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social
library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...
library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Thousands more photos from the CCAS delegations are available in UCSD Library's Digital Collections @ucsandiego.bsky.social
library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...
library.ucsd.edu/dc/collectio...
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"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"Computational Humanities is far more than a collection of essays; it is a meticulously curated critical tool kit."
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
This is exactly what we were going for! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...
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Really excited to see our new issue of Current Research in Digital History with articles on topic models, event extraction modeling, network visualizations, maps, visualizing art, and computational analysis on congressional roll call votes.
November 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Really excited to see our new issue of Current Research in Digital History with articles on topic models, event extraction modeling, network visualizations, maps, visualizing art, and computational analysis on congressional roll call votes.
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#China #UK #universities #Uyghur #Uighur #censorship
Human rights research halted after pressure from China
Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Human rights research halted after pressure from China
Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
#China #UK #universities #Uyghur #Uighur #censorship
Human rights research halted after pressure from China
Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Human rights research halted after pressure from China
Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
via AmyHawkins
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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extraordinary, contemptible cowardice from @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social , directed against one of their own staff on behalf of the Chinese government.
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:28 AM
extraordinary, contemptible cowardice from @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social , directed against one of their own staff on behalf of the Chinese government.
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テッサ・モリスースズキ先生による、ラムザイヤー氏の在日コリアンに関する論文 (Social Capital and the Problems of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan) の徹底的な反論とファクトチェックです。ラムザイヤー氏の元論文はThe European Journal of Law and Economicという学術誌のオンライン版に2021月2月に発表されたものでした。
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Koreans in Japan and Ethics in Scholarly Publishing: A Response to Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
Over the past five years, Harvard Professor J. Mark Ramseyer has published a series of articles focussing on controversial issues in Japanese society and histor
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November 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
テッサ・モリスースズキ先生による、ラムザイヤー氏の在日コリアンに関する論文 (Social Capital and the Problems of Opportunistic Leadership: The Example of Koreans in Japan) の徹底的な反論とファクトチェックです。ラムザイヤー氏の元論文はThe European Journal of Law and Economicという学術誌のオンライン版に2021月2月に発表されたものでした。
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Jailed for criticising the royal family - Tyrell Haberkorn, Sophon “Get” Suratitthamrong, 2025
journals.sagepub.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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ESPERANTO WA DAME! 😅
Reason no. 3 why Esperanto won't succeed, according to Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) in 1905? -- Because the pronunciation of carnivorous and herbivorous people will naturally diverge. 🧐🤔
Reason no. 3 why Esperanto won't succeed, according to Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) in 1905? -- Because the pronunciation of carnivorous and herbivorous people will naturally diverge. 🧐🤔
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ESPERANTO WA DAME! 😅
Reason no. 3 why Esperanto won't succeed, according to Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) in 1905? -- Because the pronunciation of carnivorous and herbivorous people will naturally diverge. 🧐🤔
Reason no. 3 why Esperanto won't succeed, according to Kanazawa Shōzaburō 金沢庄三郎 (1872-1967) in 1905? -- Because the pronunciation of carnivorous and herbivorous people will naturally diverge. 🧐🤔
With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature
November 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): froginawell.net/chinese-lite... #china #literature
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My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.
November 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.
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Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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It's 1997.
Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid.
Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"
Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid.
Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"
October 31, 2025 at 9:29 PM
It's 1997.
Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid.
Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"
Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid.
Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"