Jonathan Henshaw
@henshaw.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China • War • Occupation • Commemoration • Translation • 🍁
https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
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“Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.”
would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone
globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone
globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
Intercepted communications link Indian government to B.C. Sikh leader’s assassination | Globalnews.ca
British intelligence provided Canada with initial tip tying India’s government to temple leader's 2023 killing.
globalnews.ca
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.”
would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone
globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone
globalnews.ca/news/1151469...
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Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …
Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case …
Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
cm.asiae.co.kr
November 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
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Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.
In a new graphic narrative, Rivi Handler-Spitz (author of a chapter in our Global Anti-Asian Racism volume) shares comments from Chinese students about the uncertainty they feel regarding their position in the U.S.
Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)
A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.
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I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series!
China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
China’s Date Debate
China’s Date Debate is an in-depth investigation of the Chinese Communist Party’s remapping of China’s World War II timeline from eight years (1937-–1945) to fourteen years (1931–1945). Instead of the...
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August 21, 2025 at 6:41 PM
I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series!
China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...
Very proud to be able to publish among so many esteemed authors in War & Society. My thanks, also, to @kristenauthor.bsky.social and everyone involved in the editorial and review process!
Wearing my journal editorial team hat ... New article by @henshaw.bsky.social examines a Chinese dentist in occupied Nanjing whose postwar career was ruined for treating a hanjian: wartime collaborator. Also maps stigma still adhering to hanjian & associates. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Towards a Nanjing narrative of the Second World War in China: Navigating the stigma of an unspeakable past
In China, the political act of collaboration with Japan during the Second World War has been cast as a moral flaw, with those who collaborated condemned as hanjian – traitors to the Han Chinese. Th...
www.tandfonline.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Very proud to be able to publish among so many esteemed authors in War & Society. My thanks, also, to @kristenauthor.bsky.social and everyone involved in the editorial and review process!
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is translation undervalued in Anglophone academe? In China, translation is considered proper academic outputs, with both formal (e.g. for performance review & promotion) and informal recognition (reputation in wider society). it reflects (and constitutes)
July 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
is translation undervalued in Anglophone academe? In China, translation is considered proper academic outputs, with both formal (e.g. for performance review & promotion) and informal recognition (reputation in wider society). it reflects (and constitutes)
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Charlotte Gray on the underfunding of Library and Archives Canada and what lies ahead in its upcoming move. Sigh. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
Canada’s national archives need more than just a facelift
Library and Archives Canada will soon have a shiny new home, but historians say what it really needs is better – and faster – access to the documents that make up this country’s history
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June 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Charlotte Gray on the underfunding of Library and Archives Canada and what lies ahead in its upcoming move. Sigh. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...
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China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
The world’s largest emitter just delivered some good climate news—for now
China may have met an important milestone ahead of schedule. We'll see if it persists.
www.motherjones.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States.
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule."
from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org
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Absolutely grim. He got into a fight with shopkeepers at an electronics market, following a dispute over the agreed price to fix a mobile phone screen. He says he was forced to sign confessions he didn’t understand. Years of hell followed.
In case you missed this yesterday, the harrowing story of an Australian’s five years in a Chinese prison: malnourished prisoners; physical and mental torture… #China
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Australian Matthew Radalj tells of life in China prison - BBC News
Matthew Radalj tells the BBC of his time in a Beijing prison, revealing what goes on behind bars.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Absolutely grim. He got into a fight with shopkeepers at an electronics market, following a dispute over the agreed price to fix a mobile phone screen. He says he was forced to sign confessions he didn’t understand. Years of hell followed.
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A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.
Lost and Found: The Unexpected Journey of the MingKwai Typewriter | Made in China Journal
It began as an innocuous inquiry on Facebook. Nelson Felix, a resident of New York State, posted in the group ‘What’s My Typewriter Worth?’ about a curious find he made while clearing out the basement...
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May 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.
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Really good video by Donut.
2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.
2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.
Why Are Trucks So Big?
YouTube video by Donut
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April 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Really good video by Donut.
2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.
2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.
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Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."
April 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for media. Proposed annexation of Canada using “economic coercion,” ie, an illegal, aggressive takeover without citizens’ consent, is framed as “a proposal” to “discuss” and then the inevitable outrage such framing provokes brings this:
My latest editor’s blog on how a program sparked a wave of protest before it aired yesterday: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How a CBC discussion on Trump's '51st state' threat drew hundreds of complaints — before it even aired | CBC News
What prompted the anger (and, in a few cases, startling claims CBC was engaged in 'treason,' 'sedition' and 'betrayal') were two things: the program title and the proposed question to the audience.
www.cbc.ca
February 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for media. Proposed annexation of Canada using “economic coercion,” ie, an illegal, aggressive takeover without citizens’ consent, is framed as “a proposal” to “discuss” and then the inevitable outrage such framing provokes brings this:
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I wrote about the early years
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...
Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry
There’s a screenshot from TikTok that recently caused me and a group of my writer friends to lose our minds.
open.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote about the early years
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...
of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...
One of those issues where to have the debate is to lose it.
This is a pretty good explainer of Trump's bogus claim the US is "subsidizing Canada." But it falls into the sanewashing trap media hasn't figured out how to avoid. It calls Trump's lies & misrepresentations "a negotiation" instead of "threats from an autocrat." Maybe quit minimizing the danger?
Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That
YouTube video by CBC News
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
One of those issues where to have the debate is to lose it.
Can’t comprehend how horrific this case and the public trial must’ve been for Mdm Pelicot, but her courage casts light on the crucial question below.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
December 19, 2024 at 6:40 PM
Can’t comprehend how horrific this case and the public trial must’ve been for Mdm Pelicot, but her courage casts light on the crucial question below.
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
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I was 10 years old on December 6, 1989 and already a feminist. I have attended countless vigils and cried so many tears for the 14 women lost on that day, and the far-to-many thereafter. It’s 2024, and femicide is still a national epidemic.
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 PM
I was 10 years old on December 6, 1989 and already a feminist. I have attended countless vigils and cried so many tears for the 14 women lost on that day, and the far-to-many thereafter. It’s 2024, and femicide is still a national epidemic.
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Lawmakers have barricaded the doors of the National Assembly, where President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to arrive shortly. While Yoon is said to be about to resign, opposition have said they will not let him enter for fear he could use military escort to seize control of the chamber.
December 6, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Lawmakers have barricaded the doors of the National Assembly, where President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to arrive shortly. While Yoon is said to be about to resign, opposition have said they will not let him enter for fear he could use military escort to seize control of the chamber.
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Ran out of daylight on the ride back to Luodong yesterday so I had to get a little creative shooting this reinforced concrete World War 2 era airplane hangar. The light source is the high beams on my rental scooter 🔦
November 30, 2024 at 3:08 AM
Ran out of daylight on the ride back to Luodong yesterday so I had to get a little creative shooting this reinforced concrete World War 2 era airplane hangar. The light source is the high beams on my rental scooter 🔦
An incredibly long time for Mark Swidan…
3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says #China
3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says - World News
Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and are returning to the United States, the White House said Wednesday, announcing a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration.
www.castanet.net
November 27, 2024 at 3:26 PM
An incredibly long time for Mark Swidan…
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3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says #China
3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says - World News
Three American citizens imprisoned for years by China have been released and are returning to the United States, the White House said Wednesday, announcing a rare diplomatic agreement with Beijing in the final months of the Biden administration.
www.castanet.net
November 27, 2024 at 3:24 PM
3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says #China
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Am I doing this right? I made a highly incomplete starter pack for feminist reporting and commentary, pretty loosely defined. go.bsky.app/6MA7Mxj
November 16, 2024 at 12:59 AM
Am I doing this right? I made a highly incomplete starter pack for feminist reporting and commentary, pretty loosely defined. go.bsky.app/6MA7Mxj