Xin Fan 范鑫
@xinfan.bsky.social
Historian, Teacher, and Traveler; Author of "World History and National Identity in China" (CambridgeUP, 2021) & "Global history in China" (Palgrave 2024).
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Xin Fan 范鑫
@xinfan.bsky.social
· Nov 24
New to Bluesky, so I thought I'd reintroduce my work! My first monograph, World History and National Identity in China, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. It explores #IntellectualHistory, #Historiography, #Nationalism, and the development of the #WorldHistory discipline in China.
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A timely talk by Professor Klaus Muehlhahn in ShanghaiTech University on 8 September: Beyond the Black Hole: How Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 上海的小伙伴请考虑参加:-)
September 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
A timely talk by Professor Klaus Muehlhahn in ShanghaiTech University on 8 September: Beyond the Black Hole: How Humanities and Liberal Arts Can Thrive in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. 上海的小伙伴请考虑参加:-)
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I am humbled to share my newly published essay (金庸与剑桥大学的书缘和情缘) about Dr. Louis Cha, Honorary Fellow of both Robinson and St John’s Colleges. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues Judith (Robinson), Miki, Beth, and Elmo at @AMES_Library for their kind support.
August 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I am humbled to share my newly published essay (金庸与剑桥大学的书缘和情缘) about Dr. Louis Cha, Honorary Fellow of both Robinson and St John’s Colleges. Many thanks to my librarian colleagues Judith (Robinson), Miki, Beth, and Elmo at @AMES_Library for their kind support.
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Super happy to share the news on behalf of the team for the Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge University Library: our Hopkins Oracle Bones (2D set CUL1–610) and 50 3D images are now freely accessible to the world. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
August 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Super happy to share the news on behalf of the team for the Sally T. WongAvery Digital Collection of Chinese Materials at Cambridge University Library: our Hopkins Oracle Bones (2D set CUL1–610) and 50 3D images are now freely accessible to the world. cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...
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Cambridge PhD students: please consider this great opportunity to use the Chinese collections at UCSD library for your PhD studies, under the WongAvery Visiting Scholar Exchange Programme. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. For details, please see: library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...
July 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Cambridge PhD students: please consider this great opportunity to use the Chinese collections at UCSD library for your PhD studies, under the WongAvery Visiting Scholar Exchange Programme. Application deadline: 30 September 2025. For details, please see: library.ucsd.edu/news-events/...
pleased to report both of my monographs are now on sales––
Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
July 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
pleased to report both of my monographs are now on sales––
Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Re: "World History and National Identity in China," paperback is only GBP 24.00.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
Re: "Global History in China," digital copy is only GBP13.99.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Reading amazing scholarship like this makes you wonder to what extent the 1911/12 divide is still applicable to modern Chinese history!
May 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Reading amazing scholarship like this makes you wonder to what extent the 1911/12 divide is still applicable to modern Chinese history!
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Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋
We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.
We can’t wait to connect with you all!
We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.
We can’t wait to connect with you all!
May 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hello #AsianStudies community! 👋
We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.
We can’t wait to connect with you all!
We’re thrilled to join #Bluesky. Follow us for updates on our books, journals, digital resources, events and CfPs covering Asian Studies—across #history, #philosophy, #religion, #literature and #culturalstudies.
We can’t wait to connect with you all!
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Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
May 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...
Back to reading and finished this new translation of the history of the Republic of China (originally in French). Very strong synthesis of the economic, political, social, and cultural in the last four chapters. Less focused on the revolutionary narrative.
May 28, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Back to reading and finished this new translation of the history of the Republic of China (originally in French). Very strong synthesis of the economic, political, social, and cultural in the last four chapters. Less focused on the revolutionary narrative.
Conference on “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” on May 19 & May 21 in Göttingen, co-organized by Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) and Wang Hui (Tsinghua), which will be featured with a range of renowned artists, writers, and scholars. Programs below.
May 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Conference on “Identity, Ignorance, and the Politics of the Self” on May 19 & May 21 in Göttingen, co-organized by Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) and Wang Hui (Tsinghua), which will be featured with a range of renowned artists, writers, and scholars. Programs below.
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!
📅Deadline 9th May
📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk
For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...
We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!
📅Deadline 9th May
📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk
For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...
April 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!
📅Deadline 9th May
📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk
For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...
We're excited to hear from scholars working on the history of South China through new sources, methods and approaches, for a one-day workshop at Oxford!
📅Deadline 9th May
📍Workshop 4th July @ox.ac.uk
For more information and abstract submission: bit.ly/HistoryofSou...
Looking forward to my talk on the history of emotions at City University of Hong Kong on 9 April! So exciting to visit Hong Kong after so many years…
March 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Looking forward to my talk on the history of emotions at City University of Hong Kong on 9 April! So exciting to visit Hong Kong after so many years…
Ta-Nehisi in town. What a treat!
March 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ta-Nehisi in town. What a treat!
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Permanent academic positions in Asian studies/history soon to open for applications in France in this job cycle, a 🧵
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1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4)
sciences.re/postes/media...
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1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4)
sciences.re/postes/media...
sciences.re
February 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Permanent academic positions in Asian studies/history soon to open for applications in France in this job cycle, a 🧵
👇
1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4)
sciences.re/postes/media...
👇
1) Asst/Assoc Prof in "Culture and societies of the contemporary Sinophone world" at Université Paris Cité (Paris) (deadline: April 4)
sciences.re/postes/media...
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Our database on periodicals from the late Qing and Republican era has surpassed 10,000 views! Even recently, I’ve continued to receive positive feedback on how useful and convenient it is. This is truly encouraging, and I will be adding more titles soon. See: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
February 15, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our database on periodicals from the late Qing and Republican era has surpassed 10,000 views! Even recently, I’ve continued to receive positive feedback on how useful and convenient it is. This is truly encouraging, and I will be adding more titles soon. See: public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
Book received, and intrigued by the topic. Looking forward to reading it! @mihatsch.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Book received, and intrigued by the topic. Looking forward to reading it! @mihatsch.bsky.social
It's a great honour to be on board!
News! We would like to welcome four new members to our International Board! @xinfan.bsky.social (University of Cambridge), Ployjai Pintobtang พลอยใจ ปิ่นตบแต่ง (Chiang Mai University; มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่), @orrosenboim.bsky.social (Università di Bologna), and Tomohito Baji 馬路智仁 (University of Tokyo; 東京大学)
January 16, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It's a great honour to be on board!
Welcome to Bluesky👋
A fashionable Chinese "New Woman" chilling on the couch in this 1933 magazine cover ad for My Dear cigarettes.
December 11, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Welcome to Bluesky👋
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Over 200 East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals (1850-1950) on Internet Archive. A total of over 378,000 issues. All of these can be downloaded as PDFs. archive.org/details/east...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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December 9, 2024 at 12:27 PM
Over 200 East Asian Newspapers and Periodicals (1850-1950) on Internet Archive. A total of over 378,000 issues. All of these can be downloaded as PDFs. archive.org/details/east...
The legendary “Moss on Stone” is back! 👏👏👏
There are now over 50 issues of the "Tokyo Gazette" from 1937 to early 1942 on the Internet Archive (with PDF download). This publication is a useful English language source for pro-Japanese state perspective on domestic and international affairs. 1/
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December 9, 2024 at 10:01 PM
The legendary “Moss on Stone” is back! 👏👏👏
Street scene. Found on a rainy day in Cambridge while walking…
December 7, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Street scene. Found on a rainy day in Cambridge while walking…
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Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
December 4, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences (TIAS), where I serve as a faculty, is recruiting TIAS Society of Fellows (2025). Every year we expect to welcome about TEN new posdocs from various disciplines. Check it out😁
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
tias.tsinghua.edu.cn/application/...
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I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)
December 4, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I got around to scanning a fat wartime Chinese ministry of information handbook I found on Ebay packed with nearly 1,000 pages of state statistics & reference material: China Handbook 1937-1943. Uploaded as 5 large PDF files to Internet Archive: archive.org/details/chin... (tweet archive 2022)