K. Alexander 亞天恩
@thianun.bsky.social
台灣戰貓. Associate Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, August 2025). she/hers
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Jazz Dance II
Metalworking for Physicists
Extragalactic Astrophysics
Sex and Love in Traditional Chinese Literature
Democracy in East Asia
Jazz Dance II
Metalworking for Physicists
Extragalactic Astrophysics
Sex and Love in Traditional Chinese Literature
Democracy in East Asia
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
Gothic Lit
Sociology of Deviance
The Graphic Novel
B&W Photography (lab)
Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
Gothic Lit
Sociology of Deviance
The Graphic Novel
B&W Photography (lab)
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college
Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
Urban politics
Urban sociology
Mid 20th century U.S. History
Gender and Politics
World History (I'm sorry for sleeping through this at 8am, but the prof was so nice in office hours, I will always pay that forward)
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Jazz Dance II
Metalworking for Physicists
Extragalactic Astrophysics
Sex and Love in Traditional Chinese Literature
Democracy in East Asia
Jazz Dance II
Metalworking for Physicists
Extragalactic Astrophysics
Sex and Love in Traditional Chinese Literature
Democracy in East Asia
Broke bits off a front tooth in my university library stacks because I was walking and reading and smashed my forehead into a low ceiling beam. Because I fell to the floor in front of a horrified young employee, they must have told a supervisor and the spot soon got blocked off with a barrier
What's the most ridiculous way you ever hurt yourself? I got out of the tub, skidded in water and tripped over the toilet. Ankle sprain.
😅
😅
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Broke bits off a front tooth in my university library stacks because I was walking and reading and smashed my forehead into a low ceiling beam. Because I fell to the floor in front of a horrified young employee, they must have told a supervisor and the spot soon got blocked off with a barrier
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Happy New Year Taiwan!
December 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy New Year Taiwan!
Starting off strong in Taitung with 范曉萱 & 100%, wearing a skinned muppet, a tiger, and a cow.
December 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Starting off strong in Taitung with 范曉萱 & 100%, wearing a skinned muppet, a tiger, and a cow.
It's the most wonderful time of the year, when tomorrow we get to join Taiwanese in counting down to the new year with an extravaganza of pop music and wild costumes on hosts and performers alike
Annual tradition for @sudasana.bsky.social and myself, so I'll share some links for you all too below!
Annual tradition for @sudasana.bsky.social and myself, so I'll share some links for you all too below!
2026跨年宅家轉台攻略！卡司陣容、演出順序、直播平台一次看
2025年步入尾聲，全台跨年晚會、活動、演唱會都已經準備好與民眾一起迎接新年！除了到現場感受跨年氣氛外，相信有不少人選擇宅在家裡，看著電視轉播或線上直播迎接2026，因此小編特地為大家準備了全台各地大型跨年晚會的轉播資訊，包括電視轉播和免費線上直播平台，以及跨年晚會卡司演出順序，讓你的跨年夜只要握緊遙控器或滑鼠，就能輕鬆追到想看的歌手演出，在家度過溫暖充實的新年！
tw.news.yahoo.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year, when tomorrow we get to join Taiwanese in counting down to the new year with an extravaganza of pop music and wild costumes on hosts and performers alike
Annual tradition for @sudasana.bsky.social and myself, so I'll share some links for you all too below!
Annual tradition for @sudasana.bsky.social and myself, so I'll share some links for you all too below!
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Nativity Scene, from Giulio Aleni, "Illustrated Life of the Lord of Heaven", 天主降生出像經解, Fuzhou, 1637
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Nativity Scene, from Giulio Aleni, "Illustrated Life of the Lord of Heaven", 天主降生出像經解, Fuzhou, 1637
Chatting with @margiburge.bsky.social reminded me of this vintage Sesame Street clip that I watched many times a toddler (on a taped VHS a friend in the US mailed us) which meant for a brief time this TaiwaneseAmerican kid had a NYC accent on “lost dog” youtu.be/0obYAdfihDk check out the printing!!
Sesame Street - A family lose their dog Ace
YouTube video by LittleJerryFan92 *RETIRED CHANNEL*
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Chatting with @margiburge.bsky.social reminded me of this vintage Sesame Street clip that I watched many times a toddler (on a taped VHS a friend in the US mailed us) which meant for a brief time this TaiwaneseAmerican kid had a NYC accent on “lost dog” youtu.be/0obYAdfihDk check out the printing!!
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A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
December 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
A better framework is to address the broader project of AI to displace interpersonal contact, thought, negotiation; and to normalize this project. This aspect of AI is essential to the economic agenda that it underpins. 2/n
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If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
If nothing else, this phenomenon is heightening the visibility of those who use citation simply as a signaling apparatus and not for the purposes of leading readers to the source of their claims or the thinking with which they are engaging.
Sure fall semester just ended, but since I have to miss my first lecture of Spring 2026 to go to a conference and my TAs have to teach it for me, I've been working on Week 1, Day 1 slides tonight...
Looking forward to #MLA2026, but didn't realize it would overlap with my first week of class!
Looking forward to #MLA2026, but didn't realize it would overlap with my first week of class!
December 17, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Sure fall semester just ended, but since I have to miss my first lecture of Spring 2026 to go to a conference and my TAs have to teach it for me, I've been working on Week 1, Day 1 slides tonight...
Looking forward to #MLA2026, but didn't realize it would overlap with my first week of class!
Looking forward to #MLA2026, but didn't realize it would overlap with my first week of class!
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Chinese Religions
Volume 53, Number 2, Dec. 2025
tinyurl.com/y5bcbns6
CONTRIBUTORS
Massimiliano Portoghese, Noga Ganany, Xiang-Yun Ng, Ilia Mozias, Jane Geaney, Rostislav Berezkin, Gareth Fisher, Katherine Alexander, Hannah Theaker, Lei Ying
Journal of Chinese Religions
Volume 53, Number 2, Dec. 2025
tinyurl.com/y5bcbns6
CONTRIBUTORS
Massimiliano Portoghese, Noga Ganany, Xiang-Yun Ng, Ilia Mozias, Jane Geaney, Rostislav Berezkin, Gareth Fisher, Katherine Alexander, Hannah Theaker, Lei Ying
December 11, 2025 at 1:11 PM
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Chinese Religions
Volume 53, Number 2, Dec. 2025
tinyurl.com/y5bcbns6
CONTRIBUTORS
Massimiliano Portoghese, Noga Ganany, Xiang-Yun Ng, Ilia Mozias, Jane Geaney, Rostislav Berezkin, Gareth Fisher, Katherine Alexander, Hannah Theaker, Lei Ying
Journal of Chinese Religions
Volume 53, Number 2, Dec. 2025
tinyurl.com/y5bcbns6
CONTRIBUTORS
Massimiliano Portoghese, Noga Ganany, Xiang-Yun Ng, Ilia Mozias, Jane Geaney, Rostislav Berezkin, Gareth Fisher, Katherine Alexander, Hannah Theaker, Lei Ying
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You will be visited by three spirits
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"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
December 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
"Write! The written letter endures!" Scribal wit at the start of financial records for London bridge in 1424. Cleverly, the scribe created the letter 'S' by folding a speech scroll, so the form of the letter conveys the meaning of the conventional proverb, "speech is fleeting but writing endures."
Why we check multiple editions of the same text, if possible, even if there’s a decent facsimile online.
Online fasc is of an edition with the dates for both prefaces changed. Edition I’m holding in my hand left China before either of those years.
Why!?
Online fasc is of an edition with the dates for both prefaces changed. Edition I’m holding in my hand left China before either of those years.
Why!?
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Why we check multiple editions of the same text, if possible, even if there’s a decent facsimile online.
Online fasc is of an edition with the dates for both prefaces changed. Edition I’m holding in my hand left China before either of those years.
Why!?
Online fasc is of an edition with the dates for both prefaces changed. Edition I’m holding in my hand left China before either of those years.
Why!?
Maybe someday I’ll look at a third copy of this book printed with the same blocks and this can get sillier
December 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Maybe someday I’ll look at a third copy of this book printed with the same blocks and this can get sillier
If this cat stays very very still, no one will notice it’s not a Buddhist bowl decorated with luohan
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
If this cat stays very very still, no one will notice it’s not a Buddhist bowl decorated with luohan
NOVEL????
(How to make me almost yelp out loud in the V&A)
(How to make me almost yelp out loud in the V&A)
December 1, 2025 at 10:57 AM
NOVEL????
(How to make me almost yelp out loud in the V&A)
(How to make me almost yelp out loud in the V&A)
Listening to Big Ben strike the top of the hour accompanied by the inescapable dulcet tones of a leaf blower cleaning up behind a statue, I’m reminded we have a clock tower just like this back at home in Colorado and leaf blowers there too westy.news/the-big-ben-...
(Bluesky this is a joke ok?)
(Bluesky this is a joke ok?)
December 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Listening to Big Ben strike the top of the hour accompanied by the inescapable dulcet tones of a leaf blower cleaning up behind a statue, I’m reminded we have a clock tower just like this back at home in Colorado and leaf blowers there too westy.news/the-big-ben-...
(Bluesky this is a joke ok?)
(Bluesky this is a joke ok?)
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A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A very happy birthday to the ever-beguiling and brilliant William Blake, born #onthisday in 1757.
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
Pictured here, his depiction of the biblical story of Jacob's Dream. One of several Blake prints for sale in our online shop: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/w... #otd
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November 28, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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A movie that takes place where you’re from
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
A movie that takes place where you’re from
At the time only chapters 1-40 were translated and I wanted to keep reading…
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
At the time only chapters 1-40 were translated and I wanted to keep reading…
Completely spoiled by the sky the last 12 hours
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Completely spoiled by the sky the last 12 hours