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Ying Zhang
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Leiden University, Professor of Chinese History 🐌 🇳🇱 🇨🇳🇩🇰

Joint PhD in History & Women’s Studies (Univ of Michigan)
Premodernist, 14-18th century political culture, gender, family, bureaucracy, religion, etc.
We are so happy to have won an Erasmus +ICM grant on a topic related to teaching gender history! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Six Erasmus+ ICM grants awarded for international cooperation
Six Leiden University members of staff recently received the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility grant for exchange projects with non-European partner universities. The total award of around 357,00...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thanks to Dorry and Tobias for their meticulous editorial work and deep intellectual engagement in the process! So proud to be part of this volume! Open access!
I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
November 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
global.oup.com/academic/con...
August 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Really wonderful effort by @postmedieval.bsky.social editorial team. We had the first meeting today and it was productive! Sometimes we forget how important it is to support first-time authors. But we have all been there!
/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...
August 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."

Please send us your abstracts!
January 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The Leiden Chinese Queer Collection, workshop to celebrate its launch! @asianlibrarynl.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Congratulations to the editors of - and contributors to -

Thinking Women and Art in the Long 18th Century: Strategic Reinterpretations
Edited by Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann & Melissa Hyde
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social 2025
April 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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This week! On Wed, April 23 (7pm EST), Professor Stacy Fahrenthold joins Titas Chakraborty and Justin Jackson for a discussion of their new books with the @lawcha.bsky.social
virtual series. Everyone is welcome and you can register at bit.ly/LAWCHAAprilBT
April 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Very much appreciate this detailed review of States-in-Waiting in Diplomatic History by @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social

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Maintaining the Faith in Global Decolonization
Historians of decolonization tend to present the moment of independence as the culmination of nationalist struggles, and the achievement of political sover
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April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Yuan: Chinese Architecture in a Mongol Empire by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt has been Shortlisted for the Architectural History Book Award!

Learn more about the book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco....
April 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Happy publication day to the first Japanese translation of The Second Sex! Curious how Beauvoir’s “most famous line”—“One is not born, but becomes, [a] woman”—was rendered into Japanese in 1953? See my latest website update:
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April 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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🔸 In-person lecture about “Japanese Colonial Finance and Early Chinese Stock Exchanges” by Dr Bryna Goodman, (History Dept. at University of Oregon)
⏰ April 10 | 11:15 ~ 12:15
📍 Witte Singel 27A, Room 0.28, Leiden, NL
🌐 tinyurl.com/98v7des2
@unileiden.bsky.social @leidenglobal.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Such an original and fascinating research on Japanese colonial stock exchanges in China presented by Bryna Goodman at @iias.bsky.social today. Also fascinating to look at this history in this particular historical moment.
April 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Coming up! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Why not attend, registration closes soon!🥂
Programme
See below for the full programme. Abstracts will be available after 7 April.
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Hier verheug ik mij op! Op 30 april organiseert studententijdschrift Leidschrift.nl een symposium www.universiteitleiden.nl/agenda/2025/... over de rol van de universiteit in de maatschappij, vroeger en nu, en ik mag meedoen. Iedereen is welkom. @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social
Leidschrift symposium
In het kader van het 450-jarig bestaan van Universiteit Leiden organiseert Leidschrift op 30 april een symposium met als thema: 'Wereldverbeteraars of zolderkamergeleerden? De rol van de universiteit ...
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April 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Annales English Version 📕

🏴‍☠️ 'Fighting #Pirates” as a Paradigm. Conflict, Competition, and #Criminalization in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Lübeck and the Northern European Trade'

by

Philipp Höhn

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahsse.2022.22
March 27, 2025 at 9:51 AM
An insightful, informative and intellectually vigorous book review of my dear friend Paul Reitter’s new translation of Capital! Can’t wait to read it.
‘Among scholars of “Capital” the question of what Marx meant is burdened with added importance: a proper translation of “Capital” can tell us how capital works.’

Peter E. Gordon on a new translation of Marx’s ‘Bible of the working class’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter E. Gordon · Hair-splitting: Versions of Marx
One reason to welcome a new translation is that old terms and cadences tend to petrify: repeat a phrase often enough and...
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March 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Is the #Sinology feed still a thing or are we all too distracted? Anyway, if you're free at lunchtime on Wednesday April 9 (east coast suppertime, European midnight snack), please join us for a conversation on medieval Chinese Buddhist images and their (im)materiality. 🀄📚
Scholarly Dialogue: Transparency and Projection in Medieval Buddhist Sculpture – Center for Chinese Studies
manoa.hawaii.edu
March 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Join us for the launch of Queer Conflict Research: New Approaches to the Study of Political Violence, co-edited by @jamiejhagen.bsky.social, Samuel Ritholtz, and Andrew Delatolla (@lsemiddleeast.bsky.social). This event is open to all.

🔗 More info: bit.ly/4bAnPYI

#LSEEvents #AcademicSky #PoliSky
March 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best published journal article written by an undergraduate student. The article must be published between May 1, 2024, and April 30, 2025. Submit nominations by May 15.
Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for Undergraduate Articles – AHA
The AHA offers the Raymond J. Cunningham Prize annually for the best article published in a journal written by an undergraduate student.
www.historians.org
March 24, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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History graduate students! The AHA is seeking three student columnists to write a pair of columns for #AHAPerspectives this summer. Along with publishing your two articles, columnists receive an honorarium and a one-year AHA membership. We hope you apply! 🗃️
Want to Write for the AHA? – AHA
Submit your application by Monday, April 21!
www.historians.org
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM