Late Imperial China
For scholars interested in late imperial China (roughly from the 14th to early 20th centuries). Please feel free to share the link and add hashtag "#lateimperialchina" to your future posts. Please reply if you would like to join.
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@lchen2024.bsky.social
@ericschluessel.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof. of Hist. and Intl. Affrs. at Grg. Wshngtn. Univ. Historian of the Uyghur region/Xinjiang/East Turkestan/Moghulistan/etc.
@clementfabre.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | PhD @SorbonneParis1 | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
@yunliyuetianxia.bsky.social
Started in 2020, this has become a highly-respected multimedia platform for sharing the best & newest scholarship on China, having publicized 200 issues about academic talks, roundtables, articles, and new book announcements http://t.cn/A6mLJNrd
@wooldridge.bsky.social
Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
@yuanchongwang.bsky.social
1. A native Shandongese from Shandong Peninsula, China 2. Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Delaware 3. Editor-in-Chief, The Chinese Historical Review (since July 2024)
@nianshen.bsky.social
Historian at Tsinghua University. Focus (more or less) on Chinese and East Asian histories from early modern to contemporary period, history of cartography, and urban studies. Love painting, music, arts, and antique maps
@bennoweiner.bsky.social
History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
@vierth.bsky.social
Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
@jimmillward.bsky.social
Historian of Sinitic lands and Central Asia at Georgetown University, and mandolinist for By & By. Work on Qing Empire, the Uyghur Region, Silk Road, stringed instruments in world history.
@plausistory.bsky.social
#Historian ; (early) modern #China; #Qing state and administrative knowledge; PhD@Renmin University of China You may see me at: The First Historical Archive of China (FHAC) Mastodon: @plausistory@hcommons.social Blog: qing.observer
@lichengqian.bsky.social
Lecturer at Birmingham City University, UK | PhD from University of Virginia | Cultural/Historical/Political/Global Sociology, Memory, China, East Asia
@jeandong.bsky.social
Asia Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Author of Chinese Statecraft in a Changing World (Springer 2023) Research interests: Chinese history, Indo-Pacific geopolitical challenges, Sino-US AI lethal automatous weapons regulation Jeandong@hks.harvard.edu
@norayitongqiu.bsky.social
Permanent Lecturer in Modern East Asia History at UCL; Glocobank Associate Faculty at University of Oxford
@katemh.bsky.social
Also 梅凯悦. Historian of Modern China. ME carer. Books: Women and Their Warlords (2024), The Rural Modern (2016).
@rubenalmendros.bsky.social
PhD candidate at INALCO / IFRAE (Paris), working on late imperial Chinese xiaoshuo.
@jiathk.bsky.social
Historian@HKU, late imperial and modern China, social history, religious history, women and gender
@feihsienwang.bsky.social
Historian of modern China and Taiwan @ IUBloomington | knowledge making, historical imagination, home cooking,law & economic life
@ruoyunbai.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
@zhangtaisu.bsky.social
Comparative historian, legal theorist, Chinese law and politics observer @Yale.
@ciaota.bsky.social
PhD student @KULeuven. Doing Chinese philosophizing. Kang Youwei-studies and Gongyang Confucianism. They/them
@kmichaelwilson.bsky.social
Historical Chinese literature, poetry, and philosophy. Co-host Rereading the Stone podcast https://bsky.app/profile/rereadingstone.bsky.social book reviews & discussion of Ming-Qing literature, science fiction, etc. https://www.patreon.com/kmichaelwilson
@manjurambi.bsky.social
A historian of early modern Asia, law, and borderlands at Rice University (https://profiles.rice.edu/faculty/jaymin-kim-08); President of the Manchu Studies Group (https://www.manchustudiesgroup.org/); member of Korea-Vietnam Working Group
@xiaoshuoing.com
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, co-director of UArizona Center for East Asian Studies Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press Personal account; views are my own
@thianun.bsky.social
台灣戰貓. Assistant Professor of Chinese. Early modern popular religious literature and print history. Co-parent of CRTA.info. Book forthcoming: Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing (Michigan, 2025). she/hers
@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).
@emilymatson.bsky.social
Historian of 20th century China, 东北 (Manchuria), WWII. Georgetown University and GWU. Council on Foreign Relations term member. Speaks/writes español, 中文, 少し日本語, немного по-русски.
@historianyha.bsky.social
Postdoc @ Pomona College Yuan-Ming military and cultural history and Eurasian empires Founder and host of The Chinese History Podcast
@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
@xinfan.bsky.social
Historian, Teacher, and Traveler; Author of "World History and National Identity in China" (CambridgeUP, 2021) & "Global history in China" (Palgrave 2024).
@zuoya.bsky.social
Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
@shuangchen.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History @ Univ. of Iowa. Chinese history, social and economic history, law and society, demography. Author of State-Sponsored Inequality (SUP 2017). President, International Society for Chinese Law and History (2024- ).
@arunabhghosh.bsky.social
Historian, Modern China, Political Economy, Environment, Science and Tech, Energy, Dams, Statistics, etc. scholar.harvard.edu/arunabh.ghosh
@profyangzhang.bsky.social
Sociologist studying contentious & elite politics, state & empire, political economy, knowledge, theory, and China. Associate Professor @ausis.bsky.social.
@bairuiwen.bsky.social
2023 Guggenheim Fellow; UCLA Prof of Chinese Lit & Film. Director, Center for Chinese Studies. Author and translator. https://michael-berry.com www.alc.ucla.edu/person/michael-berry/
@dgatwill.bsky.social
Historian of China and Tibet Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
@imweiwei.bsky.social
Legal+Economic History. Chinese+Global History. JD/PhD. Assistant Prof @FSU. Not really on here much.
@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
@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.
@jwassers.bsky.social
Teaches history at UCI, writes on China for the TLS, LARB, Dissent, WSJ, & other venues, 1st book on East AND Southeast Asia out in June https://indiepubs.com/products/the-milk-tea-alliance?srsltid=AfmBOoot8bW8ddRXno-tjJbRKTV99aXVFPFQn-Q8KaAAQixLtka0HWxd
@lchen2024.bsky.social
JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.