Evan Nicoll-Johnson
@evnj.bsky.social
Narrative, manuscript culture, environment & literature in early medieval China (3rd-8th centuries, or something)
Interesting/funny question from a student in my Chinese class today... Does anyone know if the slang "ate" (as in "to do something very well") has made it into Chinese? Or, I guess, how would this be translated to Chinese if you had to...?
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Interesting/funny question from a student in my Chinese class today... Does anyone know if the slang "ate" (as in "to do something very well") has made it into Chinese? Or, I guess, how would this be translated to Chinese if you had to...?
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If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 5, 2025 at 9:41 PM
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
Funny thing about learning/practicing Chinese, the best way to look up how to say many things is still to work backwards from Chinese-language sites focused on teaching English. So many more resources for studying Chinese now, but still so far behind...
September 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Funny thing about learning/practicing Chinese, the best way to look up how to say many things is still to work backwards from Chinese-language sites focused on teaching English. So many more resources for studying Chinese now, but still so far behind...
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#CFP 2026 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 10-11 at UC Berkeley. Submit paper proposals by November 8 for consideration.
Berkestan 2026 | Institute of East Asian Studies
ieas.berkeley.edu
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
#CFP 2026 Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Modern Chinese Humanities, April 10-11 at UC Berkeley. Submit paper proposals by November 8 for consideration.
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Little did anyone know, the gashadokuro would eventually be available for purchase at your local Home Depot, not to annihilate one's enemies, but to annoy one's suburban housing association at Halloween.
In #JapaneseFolklore gashadokuro is a #yokai who takes the form of a skeletal giant. The name is onomatopoeic for the sound of their rattling bones and teeth. This yokai is created from a conglomeration of many vengeful spirits of soldiers who have died in battle and remained...
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September 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Little did anyone know, the gashadokuro would eventually be available for purchase at your local Home Depot, not to annihilate one's enemies, but to annoy one's suburban housing association at Halloween.
...is there a short explanation of why both of these forms of 過 exist and seem to be displayed randomly, esp. when the simplified form is just 过?
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
...is there a short explanation of why both of these forms of 過 exist and seem to be displayed randomly, esp. when the simplified form is just 过?
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The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened?
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened?
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
Xie Lingyun
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Xie Lingyun
I heard PT Anderson has a new movie coming out about wedding season in Taiwan... It's called "One Pān-toh After Another"
July 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I heard PT Anderson has a new movie coming out about wedding season in Taiwan... It's called "One Pān-toh After Another"
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
郗愔: 棲心絕穀，修黃老之術。後以疾去職，乃築宅章安，有終焉之志。十許年間，人事頓絕。
郗愔: 棲心絕穀，修黃老之術。後以疾去職，乃築宅章安，有終焉之志。十許年間，人事頓絕。
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也.
1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains.
2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay
Me, a Sinologist: The essay topic is 吾猶及史之闕文也.
1. Exordium: The Sage laments that the virtue of former historians no longer obtains.
2. Propositio thematis: Of old, historians left gaps in texts rather than fill them with baseless hearsay
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Me, a network engineer: nope, sounds like an end-user device issue
Me, a network engineer: nope, sounds like an end-user device issue
May 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
郗愔: 棲心絕穀，修黃老之術。後以疾去職，乃築宅章安，有終焉之志。十許年間，人事頓絕。
郗愔: 棲心絕穀，修黃老之術。後以疾去職，乃築宅章安，有終焉之志。十許年間，人事頓絕。
Honored and grateful to be among those chosen for this grant!
ACLS announces the 2025 Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellows and Travel Grantees in China Studies, with $525,000 awarded to 30 emerging scholars and graduate students to support research, writing, and travel: bit.ly/4lIlkYP
#ChinaStudies #humanities #grants #highered
#ChinaStudies #humanities #grants #highered
ACLS Names 2025 Luce/ACLS Program in China Studies Fellows and Grantees
$525,000 awarded to 30 emerging scholars and graduate students to support research, writing, and travel in China studies
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April 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Honored and grateful to be among those chosen for this grant!
All small animals are the baby of whatever the closest larger animal is. This is what we mean by "making kin."
Also really proud of getting this shot of a spoonbill and her baby. The babies don't develop the full beak and the pink color until year two.
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM
All small animals are the baby of whatever the closest larger animal is. This is what we mean by "making kin."
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On April 1, University of Alberta community members joined The Landing for speeches and performances to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility. thegatewayonline.ca/2025/04/the-...
The Landing hosts celebration for Transgender Day of Visibility - The Gateway
Community members joined The Landing for speeches and performances to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility.
thegatewayonline.ca
April 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On April 1, University of Alberta community members joined The Landing for speeches and performances to celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility. thegatewayonline.ca/2025/04/the-...
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Opinion: The arts are being left in the dust
"The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions." buff.ly/CcMUyQI
"The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions." buff.ly/CcMUyQI
The arts are being left in the dust - The Gateway
The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions.
buff.ly
April 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Opinion: The arts are being left in the dust
"The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions." buff.ly/CcMUyQI
"The humanities are not a luxury, they are essential. It is time for the university and the government to reflect that reality in their budgetary decisions." buff.ly/CcMUyQI
Ecocrit question...I see the word "entanglement" come up a lot lately. It makes sense even without context, but I'm curious if this is a concept with a traceable history? Does all talk of components of ecosystems as 'entangled' refer back to the same source? Feel like I'm missing something...
March 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ecocrit question...I see the word "entanglement" come up a lot lately. It makes sense even without context, but I'm curious if this is a concept with a traceable history? Does all talk of components of ecosystems as 'entangled' refer back to the same source? Feel like I'm missing something...
Your move, Digital Orientalists @digitalorientalist.bsky.social
The American Oriental Society, the oldest learned society in the nation, is changing its outdated name to the American Society for Premodern Asia. Excellent work by the renaming committee, congrats! #sinology
March 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Your move, Digital Orientalists @digitalorientalist.bsky.social
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Happy Purrsday Evening from adoptable kitty Mason! Mason is doing his stretches and is getting ready to receive a whole bunch of pets in his loving foster home, what a doll! This sweetheart is 3 years old, he does well with other kitties, and his adoption fee is by donation. Mason will be an
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Happy Purrsday Evening from adoptable kitty Mason! Mason is doing his stretches and is getting ready to receive a whole bunch of pets in his loving foster home, what a doll! This sweetheart is 3 years old, he does well with other kitties, and his adoption fee is by donation. Mason will be an
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"As an organization, the AAS stands with its transgender students and members and decries attempts to dehumanize or stigmatize them in any fashion."
https://buff.ly/4b8M3Jo
https://buff.ly/4b8M3Jo
February 20, 2025 at 7:07 PM
"As an organization, the AAS stands with its transgender students and members and decries attempts to dehumanize or stigmatize them in any fashion."
https://buff.ly/4b8M3Jo
https://buff.ly/4b8M3Jo
If this is the sort of thing that thrills you, might I humbly recommend the latest (open access!) issue of JEACS, on Commentary and Exegesis
journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
February 14, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If this is the sort of thing that thrills you, might I humbly recommend the latest (open access!) issue of JEACS, on Commentary and Exegesis
journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
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/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English.
👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...
👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...
February 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
/postmedieval/ is launching a new mentorship programme to facilitate publication for scholars whose first language is not English.
👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...
👇 find all the details here 👇
sites.google.com/view/postmed...
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This Gary Bettinson interview with Johnnie To in Asian Cinema (2024) is truly amazing. Other people who Johnnie To considers overrated Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Day Lewis.
February 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This Gary Bettinson interview with Johnnie To in Asian Cinema (2024) is truly amazing. Other people who Johnnie To considers overrated Anthony Hopkins and Daniel Day Lewis.
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another beautiful vol. of the @JournalEACS with a special issue on commentary & exegesis in Chinese literature, philosophy and history, ed. by Marie Bizais, and as usual, open access journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
December 24, 2024 at 12:05 PM
another beautiful vol. of the @JournalEACS with a special issue on commentary & exegesis in Chinese literature, philosophy and history, ed. by Marie Bizais, and as usual, open access journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...
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Hey #medievalsky, do I know anyone who might be interested in giving a paper in a session on global miscellanies and commonplace books at SHARP 2025?
Topics of other papers in the session include a 16th-c London merchant's commonplace book and an 18th-c Mughal courtier's literary miscellanies.
Topics of other papers in the session include a 16th-c London merchant's commonplace book and an 18th-c Mughal courtier's literary miscellanies.
December 3, 2024 at 9:21 PM
Hey #medievalsky, do I know anyone who might be interested in giving a paper in a session on global miscellanies and commonplace books at SHARP 2025?
Topics of other papers in the session include a 16th-c London merchant's commonplace book and an 18th-c Mughal courtier's literary miscellanies.
Topics of other papers in the session include a 16th-c London merchant's commonplace book and an 18th-c Mughal courtier's literary miscellanies.
Chinese question... to refer to the "materiality" of books and writing, as in books as physical objects, the act of writing with a pen or brush, the qualities of paper, etc., would 物質性 work as a translation? Or is there a better way to put it?
December 5, 2024 at 8:45 PM
Chinese question... to refer to the "materiality" of books and writing, as in books as physical objects, the act of writing with a pen or brush, the qualities of paper, etc., would 物質性 work as a translation? Or is there a better way to put it?
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Reading strange tales (志怪) as alt history of Chinese landscape lit
2) only semi-ironic defense of translating 仙 as "fairy"
1) Reading strange tales (志怪) as alt history of Chinese landscape lit
2) only semi-ironic defense of translating 仙 as "fairy"
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) a short essay on what the 'engagement' in 'engaged buddhism' could mean
2) the affordances of 'thin' theories of meaning
1) a short essay on what the 'engagement' in 'engaged buddhism' could mean
2) the affordances of 'thin' theories of meaning
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) a book on metal caster artisan organizations in medieval Japan
2) public historical engagement through random rock art
1) a book on metal caster artisan organizations in medieval Japan
2) public historical engagement through random rock art
November 14, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren't working on but keep thinking about.
1) Reading strange tales (志怪) as alt history of Chinese landscape lit
2) only semi-ironic defense of translating 仙 as "fairy"
1) Reading strange tales (志怪) as alt history of Chinese landscape lit
2) only semi-ironic defense of translating 仙 as "fairy"