George L. Israel
@yilairui.bsky.social
Professor of History, Middle Georgia State University
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This is an EXCELLENT book.
Are we doing our books on here? Mine came out in April. It shows how the traditional Chinese novel Water Margin crossed boundaries of elite and popular, private and commercial, civil and martial through the power of print. Download a copy, it's free! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
December 31, 2023 at 1:32 AM
This is an EXCELLENT book.
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Oh is this an invitation? My book came out a few months before the pandemic, so I didn’t get the fun of doing in-person book talks. It’s on ghost opera in the PRC, which was hugely important culturally & politically in the 50s & 60s. It’s slender and beautifully written. I’m very proud of it.
December 30, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Oh is this an invitation? My book came out a few months before the pandemic, so I didn’t get the fun of doing in-person book talks. It’s on ghost opera in the PRC, which was hugely important culturally & politically in the 50s & 60s. It’s slender and beautifully written. I’m very proud of it.
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Actually, I'm going to say it. I did not dislike this essay by Agnes Callard on the humanities. What I liked about it is her point that a defensive attitude does not help. We've been on the defense now, and our institutions, governments, etc keep on cutting and cutting and cutting us to the bone 1/
Opinion | I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know What Their Value Is
This seems to be true of a lot of us.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2023 at 2:06 AM
Actually, I'm going to say it. I did not dislike this essay by Agnes Callard on the humanities. What I liked about it is her point that a defensive attitude does not help. We've been on the defense now, and our institutions, governments, etc keep on cutting and cutting and cutting us to the bone 1/
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Here's my New York Times op-ed on young Chinese women turning their backs on marriage and childrearing, and the challenge they're posing to China's all-male rulers. Adapted from my book: Leftover Women, 10th Anniversary Edition, which comes out November 30. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/o...
Opinion | Young Chinese Women Are Defying the Communist Party
Refusing to be pushed into traditional child-rearing roles, young women in China are quietly posing a challenge for its male-dominated government.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Here's my New York Times op-ed on young Chinese women turning their backs on marriage and childrearing, and the challenge they're posing to China's all-male rulers. Adapted from my book: Leftover Women, 10th Anniversary Edition, which comes out November 30. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/o...
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Asking digital humanities (DH) & broader scholarly community about best practices for sharing & citing ChatGPT sessions sustainably. See my current practice in screenshot of citation I created for an article in progress and my explanation of steps in next posts. Suggestions for improvement?
November 30, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Asking digital humanities (DH) & broader scholarly community about best practices for sharing & citing ChatGPT sessions sustainably. See my current practice in screenshot of citation I created for an article in progress and my explanation of steps in next posts. Suggestions for improvement?
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Special issue of Slavery & Abolition: Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World. Edited by Jelle Bruning and Said Reza Huseini. Includes al-Andalus, ʿAbbasid Egypt, Byzantine "enslavement for manumission," mutiny in Samarra, Bactrian documents, + slavery @ Zoroastrian Fire Foundations.
Slavery & Abolition
Volume 44, Issue 4 of Slavery & Abolition
www.tandfonline.com
November 27, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Special issue of Slavery & Abolition: Slavery in Byzantium and the Medieval Islamicate World. Edited by Jelle Bruning and Said Reza Huseini. Includes al-Andalus, ʿAbbasid Egypt, Byzantine "enslavement for manumission," mutiny in Samarra, Bactrian documents, + slavery @ Zoroastrian Fire Foundations.
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Latest episode of the memoirs of my teacher T. H. Barrett. Interesting observations about UCLA, UCSB and a current Harvard Professor around the 40 minute mark. youtu.be/uV94mtF2ci0?...
November 27, 2023 at 7:04 PM
Latest episode of the memoirs of my teacher T. H. Barrett. Interesting observations about UCLA, UCSB and a current Harvard Professor around the 40 minute mark. youtu.be/uV94mtF2ci0?...
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Dragon Tea Shop 🐉🤍
November 20, 2023 at 5:11 PM
Dragon Tea Shop 🐉🤍
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Rather than keep screenshotting these, here are all 33, with a little bit of background on Jin Shengtan's 33 Nice Things, one of the most likable pieces of writing I know of in any language. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
November 22, 2023 at 3:10 PM
Rather than keep screenshotting these, here are all 33, with a little bit of background on Jin Shengtan's 33 Nice Things, one of the most likable pieces of writing I know of in any language. www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good
This website is potentially useful, but I think it must violate copyright. confucius.page/texts-and-tr...
November 22, 2023 at 8:21 AM
This website is potentially useful, but I think it must violate copyright. confucius.page/texts-and-tr...
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Some sad news. We have to shut down and this why:
Some sad news – The China Project
Some sad news
thechinaproject.com
November 6, 2023 at 11:22 PM
Some sad news. We have to shut down and this why:
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My response to a question by the American Philosophical Association (a professional organization I am part of) on whether I as an academic have used Chat GPT
November 6, 2023 at 2:49 PM
My response to a question by the American Philosophical Association (a professional organization I am part of) on whether I as an academic have used Chat GPT
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A British Academy analysis from 2020 shows "those taking arts, humanities and social science degrees end up in jobs in eight of the 10 fastest-growing sectors of the economy more often than their Stem graduate counterparts."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
'Humanities graduates are just as employable': do the sciences really lead to more jobs?
The UK government wants more students to study science subjects – but employers want humanities graduates too
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2023 at 3:17 PM
A British Academy analysis from 2020 shows "those taking arts, humanities and social science degrees end up in jobs in eight of the 10 fastest-growing sectors of the economy more often than their Stem graduate counterparts."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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I love this thread. I have also collaborated w/ my husband (many people warned this would kill my career. I am glad to say it did not). You speak truthfully!
It was in my mind when writing this piece (about friendship) --
It was in my mind when writing this piece (about friendship) --
Philosophical friends and epistemic partiality in friendship
Thoughts on the importance of philosophical friendship and the epistemic partiality debate
helendecruz.substack.com
October 30, 2023 at 4:01 AM
I love this thread. I have also collaborated w/ my husband (many people warned this would kill my career. I am glad to say it did not). You speak truthfully!
It was in my mind when writing this piece (about friendship) --
It was in my mind when writing this piece (about friendship) --