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Wen-Yi Huang
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Historian of China and Taiwan. Researching the history of mountains and indigenous peoples in Taiwan. An Wang Postdoc at Harvard, 2018-2019. McGill Uni Ph.D. Migration; Environment.
Jung Lee’sRenaming Plants and Nations in Japanese Colonial #Korea is out
Link: pse.is/8cu3uf
#envihist
November 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Free download: “Island Tinkerers: Innovation and Transformation in the Making of Taiwan's Computing Industry” by Dr. Honghong Tinn

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#STS
#Taiwan
#TSMC
June 30, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Upcoming book by Antje Richter
#envhist
#China
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June 11, 2025 at 2:46 PM
June 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Looks interesting! "Range contraction of the Yangtze finless porpoise inferred from classic Chinese poems"

Link: reurl.cc/M3DGdm

#envhist
#poetry
May 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
April 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Upcoming talk by Nancy Guy. For more info: is.gd/FxhtRQ
#Taiwan
#envhum
March 13, 2025 at 3:18 AM
New book: Tofu: A Culinary History, written by Russell Thomas
#food
#China
#Japan
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March 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
New book: Picturing Animals and Plants in Early Modern #China and #Japan, edited by Fan Lin & Doreen Mueller of Leiden Uni.
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#envhist
March 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
New book: Countless Sands: Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, edited by Jeffrey Mose & Jason Protass
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#envhist
#Buddhism
February 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
New talk on Zoom about agricultures (emphasis on the plural) in different parts of #China on Feb. 26, Wednesday, 5 pm EST. Here is the registration link:
hawaii.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#envhist
February 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Got the book today. Cant wait to read this!
Link: www.sup.org/books/asian-...
#envhist
#China
February 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Maxim Korolkov's Institutions and Environment in Ancient Southern East Asia (3000 BCE to 300 CE) is out!

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#envhist
#Asia
February 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
New book: Ranjan Chakrabarti 's Climate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, C.1737-1947

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#envhist
#climate
#disaster
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Very interesting article: Cheng Li's "Inventing Climate Change: Nature and Nation in Late Qing Chinese Science Fiction"
#envhum
#climate
#China
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December 31, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Here is my translation of Robert Campany’s artcle “An Ant and a Man, a Rock and a Woman: Preliminary Notes toward an Alternate History of Chinese Worldviews” (螞蟻與男人,岩石和女人: 中國世界觀另類史初探)
Link: reurl.cc/967kbx
#envhum
#China
December 20, 2024 at 3:15 AM
New book: Singaporean Creatures: Histories of Humans and Other Animals in the Garden City, edited by Edited by Timothy P. Barnard
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#envhist
#animal
#Singapore
December 19, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Upcoming talk “Making, Dispossessing, and Protecting Watersheds in 20th-century Taiwan” by Dr. John Kanbayashi

More info: www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/Even...

#envhist
#Taiwan
December 16, 2024 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Wen-Yi Huang
If what you want for Christmas is a new book (that you can write a review of after you read it), I have you covered with some great titles in #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #animalstudies #plantstudies #conservation #disasters #energyhist
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Books Available to review for H-Environment
Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu for DM me at @farso...
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December 9, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Free e-book: Environmental Foundations to the Rise of Early Civilisations in China
#envhum
#China
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December 14, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Reposted by Wen-Yi Huang
Excited to see the tiger's return to the Chinese-North Korean borderland! For more on the history of tigers and Korea, see this article I co-authored:

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
December 10, 2024 at 4:45 AM
Reposted by Wen-Yi Huang
“If one function of climate science is to address a global climate crisis, then the form of researching and making climate archives—how, where, and with whom—must also change”

A 🔥 collaborative #envhist essay by @roguechieftan.bsky.social & Lina Pérez-Angelis

www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
www.sciencehistory.org
December 8, 2024 at 6:51 PM
New book: Xiangli Ding's Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
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#envhist
#China
December 8, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Handbook of Environmental History in Japan, edited by Fujihara Tatsushi, is out
#envhist
Handbook of Environmental History in Japan
Japan: a land plagued by volcanoes, earthquakes and typhoons, yet blessed with a climate suitable for all manner of agriculture and forestry, and positioned where ocean currents collide and bring an a...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:08 AM