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Chris Suh
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Randall Park of history. Cat dude.
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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sethwalder.bsky.social
thanks google great job you crushed it
October 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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enghistrev.bsky.social
Satoshi Mizutani reviews 'The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion', by Chris Suh @chrissuh.bsky.social

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The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion, by Chris Suh
Much of Chris Suh’s new book is about how Americans in the first half of the twentieth century treated Asian immigrants, particularly those from the Japane
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October 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
On Friday, November 7, I'm hosting a symposium at Emory for the launch of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, which I edited with @johannawinant.bsky.social. If you plan on attending, sign up for the eventbrite—hoping to get a rough gauge for attendance www.eventbrite.com/e/close-read...
Program for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, with a large slate of speakers from the volume.
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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juliairwin.bsky.social
Happy to share the news that Catastrophic Diplomacy won the 2025 Tonous and Warda Johns Family Book Award (for the best monograph in the history of U.S. foreign relations, immigration history, or military history) from the PCB-AHA.
September 22, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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diplomatichistory.bsky.social
Check out the September issue of Diplomatic History! Featuring Elisabeth Leake's (@emleake.bsky.social) Bernath Lecture "The Decolonization Paradigm: Rethinking the US and the World" in which she argues for a "new paradigm for understanding modern international history"
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September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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And Chris Suh's (@chrissuh.bsky.social) article "Diasporic Politics in the Age of Decolonization: Korean Independence and the US Military Occupation of Korea, 1945–1948" doi.org/10.1093/dh/d...
September 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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September 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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duncanwriter.bsky.social
Apparently Guillermo Del Toro has ruined Frankenstein by… being relatively faithful to the source material.

Oh my.
September 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
chrissuh.bsky.social
My new school year begins with the publication of Yumi Moon's edited volume, Cold War Refugees!

Huge congratulations to Yumi, whose pathbreaking scholarship forever shaped the way I think about the intersections of Asian history and US history! 🎉🎉🎉

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Cover of Cold War Refugees (Stanford University Press, 2025), edited by Yumi Moon
August 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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August 25, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
My fellow sickos of Bluesky: Who's ready for preseason football?
August 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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August 1, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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ronhogan.bsky.social
He did!

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Ozzy & Jack's World Detour ~ The Louisville Leopard Percussionists
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July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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wutangforchildren.bsky.social
Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones
July 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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hadas.bsky.social
more of a comment than a question is the unsolicited dick pic of academia
July 15, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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aestheticspolitics.bsky.social
posting our @terpsicoreans.bsky.social translation of Kim Eon Hee's poem for no reason what so ever

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from Have You Been Feeling Blue These Days? Poems by Kim Eon Hee, translated by Eunsong Kim & Sung-Gi Kim Have you been feeling blue these days? Are you struggling because of money? Did you watch the viral videos? Is this your castle in the sky? Do your enemies appear as your parents? Are you afraid of becoming an arsonist? Do you want to suffer more from your sense of guilt? Are you anxious you might step on a dead person’s foot, somewhere? Even though you’re alone are you really not alone? Do even dogs or cows belittle you? Is your eye twitching and pus pouring Out of your gums? Is smoke coming out from your asshole or ear hole? Do your words come out like mushed rotten strawberries? Are both your hands fool’s gold, one holding amnesia and the other delirium? Are you boundless and trapped? Suffocating and In pitch-black? You’ll likely go crazy soon But like, only like Are you like that? Then please do click Here
April 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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michaelpbrill.bsky.social
Tomorrow at 4pm EST! @wilsoncenter.org, @koreacenter.bsky.social, @historians.org, @chrissuh.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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dan-sinnamon.bsky.social
[clearing throat]
Cover of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: cream lettering in color rectangles against a cream backdrop.
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
chrissuh.bsky.social
Huge congratulations to my friend @tsasson.bsky.social on the #AHA25 roundtable on her field-changing book, The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (2024)!
Great to see your book get the recognition it deserves 😀
@historians.org @princetonupress.bsky.social
The author (second from left) is beaming with pride.
January 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM