Gregory Adam Scott 史瑞戈
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
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Gregory Scott on Buddhist Mass Media in Modern China [MCI Talk]
YouTube video by Manchester China Institute
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The Manchester China Institute put together an outstanding recording of my public talk from 15th October, now on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2CO...
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On Nov. 10, 1979, a 106-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in Mississauga.
The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point.
Not a single life was lost.
This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle.
🧵 1/12
The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point.
Not a single life was lost.
This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle.
🧵 1/12
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On Nov. 10, 1979, a 106-car freight train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and caught fire in Mississauga.
The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point.
Not a single life was lost.
This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle.
🧵 1/12
The incident led to the largest evacuation in North American history to that point.
Not a single life was lost.
This is the story of the Mississauga Miracle.
🧵 1/12
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New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Quantitative History of China
This Open Access book showcases a collection of new findings concerning China's political, social, and economic history based on large historical datasets.
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A busy and chaotic #MementoMoriMonday
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
Dancing Skeletons, Kawanabe Kyōsai 河鍋暁斎
c. 1871-1889
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
WFM vinyl for today. An especially great album for a cold rainy November day
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
WFM vinyl for today. An especially great album for a cold rainy November day
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As I am in Taiwan again, something I will never stop loving about the Chinese speaking world is that there will be some guy whose whole operation is a cart and a wok and his shingle will be, like, 鸭胗皇帝, “emperor of duck gizzard.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
As I am in Taiwan again, something I will never stop loving about the Chinese speaking world is that there will be some guy whose whole operation is a cart and a wok and his shingle will be, like, 鸭胗皇帝, “emperor of duck gizzard.”
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#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.
November 10, 2025 at 6:26 AM
#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Wang Tao 王韜 (1828–1897), translator, traveller, writer. Together with James Legge (1815–1897), he translated The #ChineseClassics. Living in #Oxford from 1867 to 1870, he recorded his impressions about places he visited in and along the way to #Europe.
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30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
November 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
30 million dead, The Somme, painting created by Mary Bishop 1976 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital where she was compelled to live.
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
Aged 4 when her father was killed in WWI, the reverberations of his death & her mother’s vast grief traumatised & distressed Mary for the rest of her life
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A barber at work, Northern China, c.1906, by American missionary Arthur H Smith
November 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A barber at work, Northern China, c.1906, by American missionary Arthur H Smith
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There are many ways to remember the sacrifice of the First World War: a reminder of the 120,000 headstones produced by the Hopton Wood Stone Company in Middleton (Derbyshire), carried by the Cromford and High Peak Railway to Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries. #RemembranceDay
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
There are many ways to remember the sacrifice of the First World War: a reminder of the 120,000 headstones produced by the Hopton Wood Stone Company in Middleton (Derbyshire), carried by the Cromford and High Peak Railway to Commonwealth War Grave cemeteries. #RemembranceDay
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First image (as far as I know) of the strip showing the final count of the Haihun Hou Shijing
“305 poems, 1,076 sections”
This is the first complete edition of the Shijing among excavated documents that is preserved well. It has 66 sections more than the Mao version
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Gaedwhy4Um...
“305 poems, 1,076 sections”
This is the first complete edition of the Shijing among excavated documents that is preserved well. It has 66 sections more than the Mao version
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Gaedwhy4Um...
海昏侯墓首次发现秦汉时期全本《诗经》
mp.weixin.qq.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 AM
First image (as far as I know) of the strip showing the final count of the Haihun Hou Shijing
“305 poems, 1,076 sections”
This is the first complete edition of the Shijing among excavated documents that is preserved well. It has 66 sections more than the Mao version
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Gaedwhy4Um...
“305 poems, 1,076 sections”
This is the first complete edition of the Shijing among excavated documents that is preserved well. It has 66 sections more than the Mao version
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Gaedwhy4Um...
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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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Last few days to visit The Secret Public. The exhibition explores the influence of LGBTQ performers, artists and activists on mainstream pop culture. 🏳️🌈
Free entry. Visit Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Open until Saturday 15 November 2025.
📓Gay Power, 1970 with cover photo by Diana Davies
Free entry. Visit Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Open until Saturday 15 November 2025.
📓Gay Power, 1970 with cover photo by Diana Davies
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Last few days to visit The Secret Public. The exhibition explores the influence of LGBTQ performers, artists and activists on mainstream pop culture. 🏳️🌈
Free entry. Visit Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Open until Saturday 15 November 2025.
📓Gay Power, 1970 with cover photo by Diana Davies
Free entry. Visit Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Open until Saturday 15 November 2025.
📓Gay Power, 1970 with cover photo by Diana Davies
My first record for today's soundtrack to Getting Shit Done
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
My first record for today's soundtrack to Getting Shit Done
Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Politics of Common Reading
Examines the transformation of vernacular knowledge during a pivotal period of modern Chinese history, 1894 to 1954. What did common readers read in the midst of the revolutions that punctuated Chin...
press.uchicago.edu
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Oooh really looking forward to this press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt
November 7, 2025 at 5:12 AM
'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt
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Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well this is awful news: tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
'All modern language and music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham.'
Nottingham friends: please be assured that we will join you in protesting against this decision in the strongest possible terms. Solidarity.
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Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026.
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
November 6, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Just submitted my final page proofs. Forthcoming in March 2026.
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
www.sup.org/books/asian-...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Who coined the phrase "#Buddhist #conquest of #China"? It appears in Hu Shi's #胡適 English writings as early as 1925, a quarter-century before E. Zürcher's eponymous book. A Chinese #translation of the latter is, titled #佛教征服中國.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Who coined the phrase "#Buddhist #conquest of #China"? It appears in Hu Shi's #胡適 English writings as early as 1925, a quarter-century before E. Zürcher's eponymous book. A Chinese #translation of the latter is, titled #佛教征服中國.
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Entirely thanks to this image, I've been on a tangent looking for a complete version of this Chinese divination text (related to 28 lunar mansions & their animals) - 演禽三世相法 purportedly written in the Tang but the popular printed tradition starts in the late Ming
#woodblockwednesday
#woodblockwednesday
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Entirely thanks to this image, I've been on a tangent looking for a complete version of this Chinese divination text (related to 28 lunar mansions & their animals) - 演禽三世相法 purportedly written in the Tang but the popular printed tradition starts in the late Ming
#woodblockwednesday
#woodblockwednesday
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For #WoodblockWednesday, this 1908 edition of 重訂教乘法數 (Reprinted Categories of Buddhist Concepts and Teachings) printed by the Tianning Monastery in Changzhou. Composed in the Ming, it lays out how all the various conceptual systems of Buddhism fit together. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NL...
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 AM
For #WoodblockWednesday, this 1908 edition of 重訂教乘法數 (Reprinted Categories of Buddhist Concepts and Teachings) printed by the Tianning Monastery in Changzhou. Composed in the Ming, it lays out how all the various conceptual systems of Buddhism fit together. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NL...