Aaron William Moore
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
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Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org
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Scents of China
Cambridge Core - Asian Literature - Scents of China
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June 27, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Further reading! If you want to go deeper into Xuelei’s work, her book Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell is now available @universitypress.cambridge.org
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
@asianstudiesed.bsky.social
@bethp1.bsky.social
@hanofdan.bsky.social
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
@asianstudiesed.bsky.social
@bethp1.bsky.social
@hanofdan.bsky.social
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
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New #AsiaNow post: Xiaofei Kang speaks about her Oxford University Press book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953, which received the 2025 post-1900 Levenson Prize.
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June 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New #AsiaNow post: Xiaofei Kang speaks about her Oxford University Press book, Enchanted Revolution: Ghosts, Shamans, and Gender Politics in Chinese Communist Propaganda, 1942-1953, which received the 2025 post-1900 Levenson Prize.
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A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'
“If ‘Bombard the Headquarters!’ is about destruction, ‘How Maoism Was Made’ is about making.” @guobin-yang.bsky.social reviews two books on Maoist China. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-maoisms/
June 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'
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In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social
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Two Maoisms | Los Angeles Review of Books
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
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June 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social
Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Dr Seth Jacobowitz: "The Forensic Turn in Modern Britain and Japan: Criminology, the Human Sciences, and Detective Fiction" | IASH
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June 2, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Upcoming lecture by Dr. Seth Jacobowitz @iashedinburgh.bsky.social on forensics and detective fiction, linking Britain / Scotland and Japan: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/dr-set... #detectivefiction @uoe-llc.bsky.social @asianstudiesed.bsky.social
Discussing wartime Japanese children's artwork with Marcos Centeno @uv.es through the TRAMEVIC project on EA war memory & visual culture. #自由画運動 #childhist #tramevic #学童疎開 #wwii #evacuation #amateurart #第二次世界大戦 #戦争史 uv.es/tramevic
May 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Discussing wartime Japanese children's artwork with Marcos Centeno @uv.es through the TRAMEVIC project on EA war memory & visual culture. #自由画運動 #childhist #tramevic #学童疎開 #wwii #evacuation #amateurart #第二次世界大戦 #戦争史 uv.es/tramevic
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Edinburgh University returns indigenous skulls to Japan
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Edinburgh University returns indigenous Ainu skulls to Japan
Three skulls donated to the university by a Scottish doctor in 1913 have been returned to Hokkaido.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Edinburgh University returns indigenous skulls to Japan
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The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences.
Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss.
📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am
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Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss.
📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Korean Empire
How Korea embraced modernisation at the end of the 19th century in a bid for independence.
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April 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet this transformative period had lasting consequences.
Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss.
📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Holly Stephens (@asianstudiesed.bsky.social) will be one of three experts joining Melvin Bragg for #InOurTime on Thursday 1 May to discuss.
📻 BBC Radio 4; 9am
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
This Thursday at 4pm CEST I am delivering a Zoom lecture for Heidelberg entitled 'Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937'. Please email Barend Noordam (barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de) for the code. (ambivalentenmity.org)
April 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This Thursday at 4pm CEST I am delivering a Zoom lecture for Heidelberg entitled 'Planners, Popularisers, and Prognosticators: Envisioning the Future of Warfare in East Asia, 1900-1937'. Please email Barend Noordam (barend.noordam@hcts.uni-heidelberg.de) for the code. (ambivalentenmity.org)
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The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc.
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
映像でみる明治の日本
動画一覧｜映像でみる明治の日本 The Meiji Period on Film - 祝！日本映画120年！「映像でみる明治の日本」を公開しました。芸能、文化、記録など多様な映像をご覧ください。
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February 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The National Film Archive of Japan has just uploaded onto their site 29 of the films that Lumiere cameramen shot in Japan in the last years of the 1800s. Most are about 1 min long and feature street scenes, actors, Ainu, dancers, etc.
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
meiji.filmarchives.jp/lumiere-works/
Coming soon this year: _The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan_, edited with Seth Jacobowitz. 28 essays and 5 short stories by one of Japan's most important interwar intellectuals, trans. by an international team of scholars. Crucial for teaching.
February 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Coming soon this year: _The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan_, edited with Seth Jacobowitz. 28 essays and 5 short stories by one of Japan's most important interwar intellectuals, trans. by an international team of scholars. Crucial for teaching.
Released at end of 2024: _How Maoism Was Made_, edited with Jennifer Altehenger, published by Oxford University Press. 17 contributors wrote chapters on science, art, economy, and many more topics, plus our critical introduction. My chapter looks at diaries from the 1950s, in former KMT cities.
February 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Released at end of 2024: _How Maoism Was Made_, edited with Jennifer Altehenger, published by Oxford University Press. 17 contributors wrote chapters on science, art, economy, and many more topics, plus our critical introduction. My chapter looks at diaries from the 1950s, in former KMT cities.
Londoners! I am giving the Annual International History Lecture at the LSE in just under two weeks. I hope to see you there. #history #科学小説 #sciencefiction www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...
Robot nation: imagining the artificial person in east Asian popular culture, 1900-1937
Robot Nation: Imagining the Artificial Person in East Asian Popular Culture, 1900-1937. International History LSE Annual Lecture Professor Aaron Moore.
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February 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Londoners! I am giving the Annual International History Lecture at the LSE in just under two weeks. I hope to see you there. #history #科学小説 #sciencefiction www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...