Konrad M. Lawson
@konrad.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Historian of modern East Asia he/him
Lecturer at University of St Andrews
From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Lecturer at University of St Andrews
From Stavanger, Norway
Live in Edinburgh, Scotland
Account searchable […]
[bridged from https://social.coop/@konrad on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old“Chinese Literature” journal with its thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online from 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and an author table with pinyin/hanzi versions of a few dozen of the over a […]
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November 13, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Lots of updates to this page dedicated to the old“Chinese Literature” journal with its thousands of English translations. Over 200 issues online from 1950s-80s. Added “Search”, “Explore” and an author table with pinyin/hanzi versions of a few dozen of the over a […]
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[Original post on social.coop]
With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): https://froginawell.net/chinese-literature/ #china #literature
November 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
With some LLM and OCR help, I've extracted the tables of contents for over 200 issues of the old PRC journal "Chinese Literature" and put together a website to search and explore them (still proof-reading and formatting it): https://froginawell.net/chinese-literature/ #china #literature
I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-sources-modern-korean-history/#japanese […]
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October 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I added a section to our Frog in a Well Primary Source guide to Korean History with some links to open access copies of volumes with Japanese statistics from colonial Korea - https://froginawell.net/frog/sources/primary-sources-modern-korean-history/#japanese […]
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Four issues of China Pictorial found on eBay just arrived with 34 more issues on their way (misc issues ‘57-60,’65-69,’76-80). Almost all are issues not already in this digital collection but can’t promise when I’ll find time to scan and post to archive.org […]
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October 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Four issues of China Pictorial found on eBay just arrived with 34 more issues on their way (misc issues ‘57-60,’65-69,’76-80). Almost all are issues not already in this digital collection but can’t promise when I’ll find time to scan and post to archive.org […]
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A UFO 🛸 spotting in Trondheim, Norway 1934. Among the treasures of A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters:
https://huginn.net/shoebox/new/index.html?letter=72 #norway
https://huginn.net/shoebox/new/index.html?letter=72 #norway
October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A UFO 🛸 spotting in Trondheim, Norway 1934. Among the treasures of A Shoebox of Norwegian Letters:
https://huginn.net/shoebox/new/index.html?letter=72 #norway
https://huginn.net/shoebox/new/index.html?letter=72 #norway
Some (out of copyright?) downloadable Japanese dictionaries of (very) different sorts from postwar at NDL:
最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/...
最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664
ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675
図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556 […]
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最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/...
最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664
ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675
図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556 […]
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September 13, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Some (out of copyright?) downloadable Japanese dictionaries of (very) different sorts from postwar at NDL:
最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/...
最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664
ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675
図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556 […]
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最新時事新語辞典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1126434/...
最新国際問題辞典 1948 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1444664
ポケットスケッチ事典 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1338675
図解新事典 1949 dl.ndl.go.jp/pid/1169556 […]
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Was listening to political commentary about the imminent Norwegian election on NRK radio and they used an expression I like, used by one commentator cautioning against speculation:
“ta seg en bolle” (lit. have a [bread/pastry/sweet] bun) = to chill out, relax […]
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“ta seg en bolle” (lit. have a [bread/pastry/sweet] bun) = to chill out, relax […]
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September 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Was listening to political commentary about the imminent Norwegian election on NRK radio and they used an expression I like, used by one commentator cautioning against speculation:
“ta seg en bolle” (lit. have a [bread/pastry/sweet] bun) = to chill out, relax […]
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“ta seg en bolle” (lit. have a [bread/pastry/sweet] bun) = to chill out, relax […]
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I did a test with a set of (hastily taken, in poor light) photographs of a few Japanese book pages, then ran them on both the ndlkotenocr-lite (which, to be fair, is designed for much older Japanese texts and likely the old form kanji) vs Google Document AI […]
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September 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I did a test with a set of (hastily taken, in poor light) photographs of a few Japanese book pages, then ran them on both the ndlkotenocr-lite (which, to be fair, is designed for much older Japanese texts and likely the old form kanji) vs Google Document AI […]
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[Original post on social.coop]
Sunday afternoon coastal walk from Sandnes to Gausel and then rental scooter back to Stavanger.
July 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Sunday afternoon coastal walk from Sandnes to Gausel and then rental scooter back to Stavanger.
U of York commissions a report from Public First on the positive impact of international students in the UK: https://www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-the-positive-impact-of-international-students.html
July 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
U of York commissions a report from Public First on the positive impact of international students in the UK: https://www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-the-positive-impact-of-international-students.html
Salmonberries / Prydbringebær, or so I’m told. Along the coast of Mosvatnet, a lake near center of Stavanger #norway. All the tartness of a raspberry, but none of the sweetness.
July 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Salmonberries / Prydbringebær, or so I’m told. Along the coast of Mosvatnet, a lake near center of Stavanger #norway. All the tartness of a raspberry, but none of the sweetness.
I like this passage from “Program or be Programmed” by Douglass Rushkoff. It is not just about literal profit: this happens when posts by users on any social network become primarily a feed of bullet points from one’s CV (or that of allies), without engagement with people.
June 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I like this passage from “Program or be Programmed” by Douglass Rushkoff. It is not just about literal profit: this happens when posts by users on any social network become primarily a feed of bullet points from one’s CV (or that of allies), without engagement with people.
Enjoyed a great walking tour along Pedersgata in Stavanger #norway with the local historian Gunnar Roalkvam, who introduced us to the history of consumer #coops here. Found a copy of his book on the topic in the used bookstore nearby: «Vårt eget eventyr: Forbruksamvirket i Rogaland»
June 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
