Loot and Plunder
By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia. Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
@artantiq.bsky.social
Art and antiquities law, politics, race, horror movies and bad tv. The wit and wisdom of a grouchy gadfly. NOT my professional account.
@suseboard.bsky.social
Open University associate lecturer (the environment, global devt, international relations). Not afraid of science: global heating is accelerating; Covid is airborne. Cyclist. Yogi. Not at the same time.
@awickenden.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Cambridge: named early modern library collections & the politics of provenance volunteer for Abortion Support Network forthcoming: Hans Sloane’s Library Collections and the Production of Knowledge (CUP 2025)
@miyamotoben.bsky.social
Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - CREW EA 4399) Book history, Art World, Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & Artists. Currently resident scholar at CNRS (délégation) She/her/Dr
@tanyapiastarrett.bsky.social
In 🇮🇹 Archaeologist/historian/solicitor/writer/National Ambassador@ScotlandEurope https://t.co/SIW82rKyYS https://bylines.scot/lifestyle/history/but-where-are-you-from-really/ WW2 UK Civilian Internment: Nonno, Govt policy & MSM hysteria.
@astridcoracini.bsky.social
International law @unisalzburg.bsky.social and @univie.ac.at | into use of force, international humanitarian law, international criminal justice & protection of cultural heritage
@ericodell.bsky.social
Artist, studio and Great Books professor, girl dad, father, brother, son. 💙s bumping into mystery. Trying a little tenderness.
@provenancelab.bsky.social
Toward #DigitalProvenance. We are the Provenance Lab @leuphana.bsky.social. > Who: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/people > What: https://provenance.hypotheses.org/publications > Where: https://www.leuphana.de/en/institutes/ipk/provenance-lab.html
@barleyscottblair.bsky.social
Unhealthy obsession with geopolitics, love learning about new cultures and languages. Build tech companies in my spare time. Startups, code and semiconductors. Sometimes in the UK, sometimes in China.
@joeylow21.bsky.social
History PhD Candidate - early modern China, Vietnam, Europe // Comparative political economy, borderlands and global history. California boy. @BrandeisGSAS
@thoc.bsky.social
“一场 Timeless 的 Classic” | 遊俠 of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [秦朝], Kangxi [康熙] Era, e. 18th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
@klingley.bsky.social
Art historian of medieval China; Assoc Prof, UH Mānoa. Feminist; foodie; early-music nerd; Jewish mother; SF/F fan; knitter; Maine native. She/her. Buddhist monuments and women's history in early medieval China. IG @kate.lingley, blog https://mbotd.blog/
@jayjamescarter.bsky.social
Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly and NYC. Weekly words @ https://tinyurl.com/bdecudb4 Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin https://tinyurl.com/3vw9s48u
@dgtam86.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China at Trinity University (focus on language, identity, gender, protest, Hong Kong); author of Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960; NCUSCR PIPVII 2021-2023; Wilson Fellow 2022-2023. 4th-gen Italian-American
@junsugawara.bsky.social
Professor, Center for the Studies on Ethnic Minorities of Northwest China, Lanzhou University. Specialized in Xinjiang history, Modern Uyghur, and Housekeeping
@seito.bsky.social
MA History @UofT (Late Qing/Republican China, Gender & Sexuality). Official Anglo-Catholic (TEC) parish void cat. Book hoarder, FFXIV player, unserious contents generator. 🏳️🌈 and Faithful. Opinions mine and none others. She/her/她/佢
@elkelitzky.bsky.social
Historian of early modern China at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
@dknorr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
@harlanc.bsky.social
Researcher of modern Chinese literature and culture. Feminist theory, political-economic thought, film and theater. Postdoc at the University of Göttingen. 不辣不革命 🍉🍉🍉
@amindarella.bsky.social
Modern China historian. Co-Director, PRC History Group. Tap dancer. Idahoan.
@xingwu.bsky.social
@x1ngwu on X. I collect, translate and write about ancient Chinese folklore, mythology, and history. Love books and cats. Mythology | Yaoguai(妖怪) | Ghost(鬼) | Art | Myth | Fantasy | History
@mcgreenesd.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof of History at Montana State, modern Chinese historian, XIV-er, pit bull lover, author of Resisting Spirits (UMich Press '19) http://bit.ly/2AqdYaQ , currently working on mountaineering & the PRC
@sudasana.bsky.social
無子養貓居士; Senior Lecturer (≈assoc prof) in Chinese Culture & History, Deputy Head of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester; 🇨🇦🏴; Building the Buddhist Revival (OUP 2020) https://academic.oup.com/book/33577; https://crta.info
@yingaa.bsky.social
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.
@mmuscolino.bsky.social
Professor and Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History, UC San Diego Author of _Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People_ forthcoming 2025. https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295753980/remaking-the-earth-exhausting-the-people/ #EnvHist #SocHist #AgHist
@wenyishang.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at SISLT, University of Missouri. UIUC iSchool PhD. Peking University alumnus. Digital humanities researcher focusing on premodern Chinese history (and occasionally English literature). https://wenyi-shang.github.io
@khirata.bsky.social
Modern Chinese (as well as Japanese and Russian/Soviet) history. Monash University. Former Shanghai resident. 中国（及び日ソ・露）近現代史。モナシュ大学。元上海居民。
@wooldridge.bsky.social
Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
@cchara.bsky.social
A podcast by Cherrie and Natalie about chinese history and other stuff. Trying to have fun with it but results may vary. https://www.withchinesecharacteristics.com/
@angelazito.bsky.social
anthropologist filmmaker on the left, dislikes prisons, into religion and media, follows all things chinese and #feldenkrais #AcademicSky she/her
@madpoli.bsky.social
firstgen PhD; Chinese History; books & photography http://maddalenapoli.com
@marc-matten.bsky.social
interested in Chinese history, global history, and the role of concepts in historiography.
@michaelszonyi.bsky.social
宋怡明 Frank Wen-hsiung Wu Prof. of Chinese History; former Director, @FairbankCenter for Chinese Studies, Harvard Univ.; #PIPFellow @NCUSCR; Chair @WCFIA_Canada; mostly tweeting @MichaelSzonyi
@imweiwei.bsky.social
Legal+Economic History. Chinese+Global History. JD/PhD. Assistant Prof @FSU. Not really on here much.
@historianzhang.bsky.social
Historian of China who studies, among other things, how people bought jobs in the government during the Qing dynasty. #tea addict. My book: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674278295
@rereadingstone.bsky.social
a podcast by @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social & William Jones on Chinese literature, poetry, & philosophy, currently: Qing dynasty classic Dream of the Red Chamber #紅樓夢 #石頭記 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1269965
@tristangbrown.bsky.social
Historian of China @MIT focusing on law, environment, economy, science, and religion Author, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton, 2023) China Book Editor, Journal of Asian Studies
@mauracunningham.bsky.social
She/her. China historian and writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Also reader, knitter, Phillies/Flyers fan, road tripper. https://mauracunningham.org/
@henshaw.bsky.social
Historian of Modern China • War • Occupation • Commemoration • Translation • 🍁 https://www.ubcpress.ca/translating-the-occupation
@rianthum.bsky.social
Historian of Uyghurs, Hui, and Muslims in China at the U of Manchester.
@fgodement.bsky.social
Historian, Special Advisor Asia & America @i_montaigne, non-resident Senior Fellow @CarnegieEndow until February 2025, #China and in spite of the above attempts at humour.
@dgatwill.bsky.social
Historian of China and Tibet Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai