Jingyi Li
@becedo.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Occidental College. Cultural historian of 19th ce Japan. Podcaster on New Books Network. I read kuzushiji and crochet. 日本語ペラペラ
And just like that, Netflix stole Alice in Borderland using the same trick they did with Squid Game—moving the stage to LA. Shameless.
September 29, 2025 at 6:03 AM
And just like that, Netflix stole Alice in Borderland using the same trick they did with Squid Game—moving the stage to LA. Shameless.
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RJL Season Five is here!
In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature.
-Bullying in Japanese schools + the Japanese workplace
-Examples in Japanese novels.
-Mizuki Tsujimura and her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, trans Philip Gabriel
Transcript on the episode page.
In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature.
-Bullying in Japanese schools + the Japanese workplace
-Examples in Japanese novels.
-Mizuki Tsujimura and her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, trans Philip Gabriel
Transcript on the episode page.
Episode 45—Bullying in Japanese Literature - Read Japanese Literature
In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature and Mizuki Tsujimura's Lonely Castle in the Mirror. We'll start out by defining bullying and looking at bullying in Japanese schools as wel…
https://readjapaneseliterature.com/Podcast/Episode+45—Bullying+in+Japanese+Literature
September 20, 2025 at 10:00 PM
RJL Season Five is here!
In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature.
-Bullying in Japanese schools + the Japanese workplace
-Examples in Japanese novels.
-Mizuki Tsujimura and her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, trans Philip Gabriel
Transcript on the episode page.
In this episode, we look at bullying in Japanese literature.
-Bullying in Japanese schools + the Japanese workplace
-Examples in Japanese novels.
-Mizuki Tsujimura and her novel Lonely Castle in the Mirror, trans Philip Gabriel
Transcript on the episode page.
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JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
August 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY).
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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New issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies is out! Highlights include articles on kanpu masatsu, war photography, empire paranoia, Italian-Japanese children's lit, Seidensticker’s style, and a bonus piece on Black Rain and ritual. Don’t miss it!
online.ucpress.edu
August 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
New issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies is out! Highlights include articles on kanpu masatsu, war photography, empire paranoia, Italian-Japanese children's lit, Seidensticker’s style, and a bonus piece on Black Rain and ritual. Don’t miss it!
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Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.
June 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Never post unpublished materials on such sites. Doing so not only disqualifies the manuscript for publication in a journal or volume, but it means your work is unprotected and can be poached by anyone with access to that site.
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It’s my birthday! If you happen to want to support RJL for the occasion and you live in North America, you can buy *yourself* a book through our Bookshop.
May I humbly recommend Uketsu’s Strange Pictures (trans Jim Rion), one of my 2025 favorites?
May I humbly recommend Uketsu’s Strange Pictures (trans Jim Rion), one of my 2025 favorites?
Read Japanese Literature Bookshop
The affiliate bookstore for ReadJapaneseLiterature.comand the podcast Read Japanese Literature.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
It’s my birthday! If you happen to want to support RJL for the occasion and you live in North America, you can buy *yourself* a book through our Bookshop.
May I humbly recommend Uketsu’s Strange Pictures (trans Jim Rion), one of my 2025 favorites?
May I humbly recommend Uketsu’s Strange Pictures (trans Jim Rion), one of my 2025 favorites?
Highlight of the semester: randomly found the first edition of Bushido that was only sold in Japan from 1905 in the Oxy library!
April 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Highlight of the semester: randomly found the first edition of Bushido that was only sold in Japan from 1905 in the Oxy library!
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Folks in Santa Barbara and LA won't want to miss this awesome opportunity!
This weekend! Come to the Billy Wilder Theater @hammermuseum.bsky.social for a rare opportunity to see pre-war Japanese paper films with live accompaniment, a fascinating part of animation and film history. 🎞️ At the Billy Wilder 4/13, or in Santa Barbara 4/12! humanities.ucla.edu/news/paper-f...
Paper films – treasures of pre-war Japan – to be screened at Billy Wilder Theater, April 13
Ninety years after the height of the medium’s popularity, a selection of kami firumu will be presented by the Yanai Initiative and the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
humanities.ucla.edu
April 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Folks in Santa Barbara and LA won't want to miss this awesome opportunity!
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20 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2024-2025. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 908 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
April 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
20 new job ads in East Asian Studies for 2024-2025. See details of this week's postings below or visit the filter database to search. 🌏📊 Now 908 entries. prcurtis.com/projects/job...
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A message to grad students struggling to conduct archival research in light of travel issues/censorship/everything:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
April 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
A message to grad students struggling to conduct archival research in light of travel issues/censorship/everything:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
I digitize religiously and I'm sitting on 1000s of pages of scanned docs - mostly related to WWII - that I want to share. If you're at all curious, email me!
Some highlights:
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Professor friends: Everyone should read this. Also, we must understand the importance of us collectively resisting anything and everything that is unjust. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
www.chronicle.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Professor friends: Everyone should read this. Also, we must understand the importance of us collectively resisting anything and everything that is unjust. www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Fun day in class where we printed from a woodblock carved by yours truly that totally looks terrible but somehow worked!
March 6, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Fun day in class where we printed from a woodblock carved by yours truly that totally looks terrible but somehow worked!
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Scholars at Risk is seeking help with its Volunteer Proofreader Initiative—if you can, please donate some of your time to assist displaced scholars embarking on job searches in new academic environments.
Volunteer Proofreader Initiative | Scholars at Risk
Assist in the academic advancement and trajectory of SAR scholars as they (re)establish their academic careers in exile.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Scholars at Risk is seeking help with its Volunteer Proofreader Initiative—if you can, please donate some of your time to assist displaced scholars embarking on job searches in new academic environments.
Had a fun day with my students at the special collections showing off my humble little collection. Turns out our library had this gem: a perfectly preserved double sided hangi of 四書字引, with a page printed from one of the sides!!
February 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Had a fun day with my students at the special collections showing off my humble little collection. Turns out our library had this gem: a perfectly preserved double sided hangi of 四書字引, with a page printed from one of the sides!!
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🗃️ In this post James Morris introduces different tools developed by ROIScodh (ROIS-DS Centre for Open Data in the Humanities)🏺and #DHII for helping to decipher Japanese #seals ⛩️ #篆書体 #印鑑 #蔵書印 #Stamps #japan #japanese #language #digitaltools #digitalhumanities
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/25/d...
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Digital Resources for Reading Japanese Seals
Although resources for learning to read or assist with deciphering cursive Japanese script found in historical books and documents are fairly accessible—including courses, books, websites, and vari…
digitalorientalist.com
February 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🗃️ In this post James Morris introduces different tools developed by ROIScodh (ROIS-DS Centre for Open Data in the Humanities)🏺and #DHII for helping to decipher Japanese #seals ⛩️ #篆書体 #印鑑 #蔵書印 #Stamps #japan #japanese #language #digitaltools #digitalhumanities
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/25/d...
digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/25/d...
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New book: "Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology," ed. Irina Holca (Lexington Books). English translation of a volume originally edited by Ōura Yasusuke.
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology
This anthology introduces literary theories developed in Japan from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. In rendering it in English, the translators have attempted to ...
rowman.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
New book: "Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology," ed. Irina Holca (Lexington Books). English translation of a volume originally edited by Ōura Yasusuke.
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
rowman.com/ISBN/9781666...
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Check out my review of Junko Takase’s May You Have Delicious Meals (trans Morgan Giles) in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social)
“From an outsider’s perspective, it’s clear that the real problem is the company’s—Japan’s… perhaps the capitalist world’s—unrealistic expectations of its workforce…”
“From an outsider’s perspective, it’s clear that the real problem is the company’s—Japan’s… perhaps the capitalist world’s—unrealistic expectations of its workforce…”
“May You Have Delicious Meals” by Junko Takase
On its face, Junko Takase’s Akutagawa-Prize-winning novel May You Have Delicious Meals seems like the set up for a romantic comedy. Nitani, Ashikawa, and Oshio work together in the sales division o…
asianreviewofbooks.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Check out my review of Junko Takase’s May You Have Delicious Meals (trans Morgan Giles) in @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social)
“From an outsider’s perspective, it’s clear that the real problem is the company’s—Japan’s… perhaps the capitalist world’s—unrealistic expectations of its workforce…”
“From an outsider’s perspective, it’s clear that the real problem is the company’s—Japan’s… perhaps the capitalist world’s—unrealistic expectations of its workforce…”
Listen to Jaqueline Berndt talk about her new book, The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. This volume offers perspectives on form and mediality of Japanese manga and anime, providing inspiration for further studies.
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newbooksnetwork.com/the-cambridg...
Jaqueline Berndt, "The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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February 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Listen to Jaqueline Berndt talk about her new book, The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime, on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. This volume offers perspectives on form and mediality of Japanese manga and anime, providing inspiration for further studies.
newbooksnetwork.com/the-cambridg...
newbooksnetwork.com/the-cambridg...
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CFP for an edited collection: “Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition.” call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
If interested, send abstract (300 words) & CV to DA Hall & Austin Anderson (japanesegamestudies@gmail.com) by 31 March 2025. Please share!
If interested, send abstract (300 words) & CV to DA Hall & Austin Anderson (japanesegamestudies@gmail.com) by 31 March 2025. Please share!
cfp | call for papers
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu
February 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
CFP for an edited collection: “Japanese Video Games and Critiques of the Western Aesthetic Tradition.” call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...
If interested, send abstract (300 words) & CV to DA Hall & Austin Anderson (japanesegamestudies@gmail.com) by 31 March 2025. Please share!
If interested, send abstract (300 words) & CV to DA Hall & Austin Anderson (japanesegamestudies@gmail.com) by 31 March 2025. Please share!
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Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
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January 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Full time professorship in Japanese studies at Université libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.
English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
English here: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
En français ici: cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...
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It's always interesting to see who is credited in a commercial creative work, and Edo period gōkan 合巻 are no exception--publisher, writer, and artist are pretty standard, but sometime you get a final page like this: the calligrapher and two separate carvers, one for each volume, are also listed...
January 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's always interesting to see who is credited in a commercial creative work, and Edo period gōkan 合巻 are no exception--publisher, writer, and artist are pretty standard, but sometime you get a final page like this: the calligrapher and two separate carvers, one for each volume, are also listed...
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You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant.
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January 22, 2025 at 2:19 AM
You do NOT have to speak to ICE without a JUDICIAL warrant. If they attempt to enter your home or your workplace, ask for a warrant. Sometimes they will try to use other, non qualifying paperwork. They need a warrant.
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Peter Kornicki 2025 Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... (available for free until 12 Feb! 🙏)
Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan
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January 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Peter Kornicki 2025 Printing Technologies and Book Production in Seventeenth-Century Japan @ doi.org/10.1017/9781... (available for free until 12 Feb! 🙏)
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Finishing the first week of the new semester and reflecting on my latest #NewBooksNetwork interview. @mimirellaz.bsky.social went deep into Japan's #mystery tradition to talk about boy detectives & economic malaise. Fascinating stuff!
Mimi Okabe, "Manga, Murder and Mystery: The Boy Detectives of Japan’s Lost Generation" (Bloomsbury, 2023) - New Books Network
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January 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Finishing the first week of the new semester and reflecting on my latest #NewBooksNetwork interview. @mimirellaz.bsky.social went deep into Japan's #mystery tradition to talk about boy detectives & economic malaise. Fascinating stuff!