Historian of Modern China at Trinity University. Author of Dialect and Nationalism in China; Current 📕 project: Grassroots Feminism: Women Activists and the Fight for Hong Kong's Future, 1967-1997. Former NCUSCR PIPVII, Wilson China Fellow. 4th-gen 🇮🇹🇺🇲
Gina Anne Tam
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this is how i would handle this loss as a spurs fan
Always a good day for Song dynasty cat poetry
This poem is made for this little guy. Yells at me every morning for specially-prepared food, does not even attempt to chase down any unwelcome critters he finds in the house.
18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).
A reminder as colleagues enter reviewing season:
The National Council on the Humanities, which approves #NEH fellowships, STILL has only 3 out of 26 seats filled.
They were Trump appointees from previous admin, and their terms have all expired.
Read their bios here:
www.neh.gov/about/nation...
7 (!) years ago this week:
I am proud to share the website my students and I collaborated on this term showcasing UCLA's Ainu-related collections! ✨ Together we researched holdings of the library, Special Collections, and Fowler Museum to document and enhance catalog information on their materials. peopleofthenorth.github.io
First article in a four-part series by Amy Hawkins on the changing status of women in Chinese society. In Chengdu, Hawkins visits female-only spaces and finds that "a cautious feminist revival is unfolding," despite Party-state promotion of "traditional family values."
"The March for One and All"
On 16th June 2019, 2 million (+1) HKers took to the streets to protest against the Extradition Law Amendment Bill, the largest protest the city has ever seen. Amazing, considering HKers broke that record (probably) just a week before
This immediately made me think of @yilingliu95.bsky.social's book Wall Dancers-- how trying to live authentically in China (and conducting advocacy work) can feel like "dancing in shackles," but, as she writes, "I'd rather dance in shackles than not dance at all."
The socially relaxed city sees a cautious feminist revival in the face of growing alarm by authorities towards women who shun traditional roles
Why are we talking sports here on BlueSky? Democracy is literally blowing up. We need to resist #resist
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For My Cat
執鼠無功元不劾，一簞魚飯以時來。
看君終日常安臥，何事紛紛去又回？
You haven’t caught any mice. I let it go.
The fish and rice were set out at the appointed hour.
I watched you drowse the day away — so now
What’s got you galloping madly everywhere?
--Lu You 陸游 (1125-1210)
