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Valentina Boretti
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Historian of modern China - childhood, mobilisation, material culture and gender. Research Associate @ SOAS
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Appel à ne pas manquer pour le colloque "Image et représentation du Livre en Chine" (15-16 octobre 2026 Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) Deadline : 20 Avril 2026 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...
December 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Out now:
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History,
edited by Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social and Yushu Geng,
Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social
#histchild #histed
doi.org/10.4324/9781003321859
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History | Isabella Jackson, Yus
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past
doi.org
December 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Did you know our new digital library is up and running, with loads of digitised content from our Missionary collections, particularly CWM and MMS? Find it all here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/archives/missionary-archives?cid= #EYAReligion
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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In a graphic novel depicting a dystopian future Hong Kong, three former democracy activists struggle to come to terms with a dark new reality.

Read our excerpt from "You Must Take Part in Revolution" by Melissa Chan and Badiucao: chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/20/r...
chinabooksreview.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Out now, #openaccess
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed

doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook
Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Jørgen Delman examines how Xu Zhiyong's political activism prompted the party-state to suppress him with specifically designed governance tools.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
October 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...

#FreeGuiMinhai
PEN International
#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...
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October 17, 2025 at 11:32 AM
How did an American mascot from 1908 become a beloved pop deity in Japan? M.W. Shores examines the fascinating transcultural journey of Billiken, a “good luck” novelty figure who was transformed into a quasi-religious icon in Osaka. repository.usfca.edu/cgi/viewcont... #Billiken, #Osaka
October 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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NEW at #VIDAblog!

@ahartman.bsky.social explores the impressions that playing video games gives us about significant women historical figures, asking: What impact does this have on informal public education about women's history? 🎮

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/video-g...
What do video games teach us about women’s history? | Australian Women's History Network
In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.
www.auswhn.com.au
October 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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1/ A reflection: something that disadvantages non-STEM scholars in unis, especially those in the arts and hums, is that we are judged by STEM frameworks:

1) We don't publish as often.
2) We tend to publish alone or in pairs.
3) Our work doesn't usually require large funds, if any.
October 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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An early advert for Chinese classes at SOAS, c. 1920 #EYAEducation ow.ly/QPaV50WNtZZ
October 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking forward to this!
Military Youth Education at the Beginning of the 20th Century
October 1–2, 2025
Alte Mensa / Old Mensa Johann-Joachim-Becher Weg 5
A conference organized by Felix Maskow, Markus Raasch and Julia Tilentzidis
CONTACT US:
E-Mail: maraasch@uni-mainz.de
September 30, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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#CFP: The Citizen-Child: Global Perspectives on Children’s Literature and the Making of Modernity
The Sixth International Children’s Literature Symposium (ICLS)
25-26 June, 2026
Hosted by the University of Antwerp
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Email: Courtney Weikle-Mills, caw57@pitt.edu
September 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Konf: Military Youth Education at the Beginning of the 20th century

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157141

Mainz, 01.10.2025-02.10.2025, Felix Maskow / Markus Raasch / Julia Tilentzidis, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
www.hsozkult.de
September 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory
August 31, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Call for conference papers:

"Child's Play in Popular Culture: History, representations and consumption."

Abstracts are due by 30 November.

The conference will take place online on 30 April - 1 May 2026.

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
August 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
August 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Delighted to have received a copy of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, to which I contributed a chapter.
Thanks to Mary Zaborskis for editing this volume!
August 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Did you know skateboards go back to the early 60s? In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, James Howard discusses the 'super surfer' that made parents and journalists clutch their pearls in horror: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/super-su...
“Super Surfer”: The Joyriding Device and Childish Menace - Digital Childhoods
At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to deal with the “craze.” While it began as a form of leisure for surfers whe...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:40 PM
#openaccess
A.E. Hawthorne Barrento on "The discourse of travel, society and nation in Republican China",
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
doi.org/10.1017/S135...
The discourse of travel, society, and nation in Republican China | Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society | Cambridge Core
The discourse of travel, society, and nation in Republican China
doi.org
June 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Do you know a group or individual that has advocated for the value of history, the work of historians and/or the importance of an education in history in the last year? The Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy is now open for applications.

www.historycouncilvic.org.au/jane_hansen_...

#phavictas
June 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM