Valentina Boretti

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely.
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

Candies and Crises - Digital Childhoods On 2nd October 1931, a couple of weeks after the so-called Mukden Incident staged by the Japanese as an excuse for invading Manchuria, readers of the newspaper Shenbao (Shanghai News) who looked at th...

In the first Digital Childhoods post of 2026, Valentina Boretti (vboretti.bsky.social) explores how candy and patriotism were connected in 1930s Shanghai: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/candies-...

Presenting the Boy with Two Penises; Participatory Science and the Public Sphere in Early Victorian London

Next Tuesday (27/1), John Hide will be speaking at our seminar. If you wish to hear "Presenting the Boy with Two Penises; Participatory Science and the Public Sphere in Early Victorian London', join us at the IHR or through Zoom.
Further details are in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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#Theoria #diamondopenaccessjournal

Appel à ne pas manquer pour le colloque "Image et représentation du Livre en Chine" (15-16 octobre 2026 Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry) Deadline : 20 Avril 2026 www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History | Isabella Jackson, Yus At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at the centre of historical analysis enables the past

Out now:
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History,
edited by Isabella Jackson @isabellajackson.bsky.social and Yushu Geng,
Routledge @routledgehistory.bsky.social
#histchild #histed
doi.org/10.4324/9781003321859

Did you know our new digital library is up and running, with loads of digitised content from our Missionary collections, particularly CWM and MMS? Find it all here: https://soas.quartexcollections.com/archives/missionary-archives?cid= #EYAReligion

In a graphic novel depicting a dystopian future Hong Kong, three former democracy activists struggle to come to terms with a dark new reality.

Read our excerpt from "You Must Take Part in Revolution" by Melissa Chan and Badiucao: chinabooksreview.com/2025/11/20/r...

Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook Part of the <a href="https://www.leverpress.org/reeditions/">Re-Editions: Literary and Cultural Texts Recovered for the Classroom</a> series. First anthology of traditional Chinese children’s primers ...

Out now, #openaccess
Traditional Chinese Children’s Primers: A Sourcebook,
edited by Katherine Ngo and Kelly Ngo
Lever Press
#histchild #histed

doi.org/10.3998/mpub...

🔔 New #OpenAccess Research Article in #JCCA Journal of Current Chinese Affairs

@giga-hamburg.de @sagepub.com

Jørgen Delman examines how Xu Zhiyong's political activism prompted the party-state to suppress him with specifically designed governance tools.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PEN International #China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional...

#China: Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the kidnapping of poet, bookseller and PEN member, Gui Minhai, 65 PEN Centres around the world renew our demand for his immediate and unconditional release.

Read our joint statement ⬇️

www.pen-international.org/news/china-p...

#FreeGuiMinhai

#materialculture

What do video games teach us about women’s history? | Australian Women's History Network In this blog, Abbie Hartman explores the impression of women's history given through video games and its impact on informal education.

NEW at #VIDAblog!

@ahartman.bsky.social explores the impressions that playing video games gives us about significant women historical figures, asking: What impact does this have on informal public education about women's history? 🎮

Find out more ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/video-g...

1/ A reflection: something that disadvantages non-STEM scholars in unis, especially those in the arts and hums, is that we are judged by STEM frameworks:

1) We don't publish as often.
2) We tend to publish alone or in pairs.
3) Our work doesn't usually require large funds, if any.

An early advert for Chinese classes at SOAS, c. 1920 #EYAEducation ow.ly/QPaV50WNtZZ

Looking forward to this!

#CFP: The Citizen-Child: Global Perspectives on Children’s Literature and the Making of Modernity
The Sixth International Children’s Literature Symposium (ICLS)
25-26 June, 2026
Hosted by the University of Antwerp
Deadline: December 1, 2025
Email: Courtney Weikle-Mills, caw57@pitt.edu

Philip Kuhn (especially Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768).

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

This is a fabulous, useful piece of writing and thinking.

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Konf: Military Youth Education at the Beginning of the 20th century

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157141

Mainz, 01.10.2025-02.10.2025, Felix Maskow / Markus Raasch / Julia Tilentzidis, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

Illustrations scanned from The Complete Commercial Artist (現代商業美術全集), Ars, No. 04, 1928 designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #graphicdesign #designhistory

#histchild

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, 2025, edited by Mary Zaborskis. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003431923/routledge-companion-gender-childhood-mary-zaborskis

Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China

Delighted to have received a copy of The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood, to which I contributed a chapter.
Thanks to Mary Zaborskis for editing this volume!

“Super Surfer”: The Joyriding Device and Childish Menace - Digital Childhoods At the dawn of the 1960s, skateboarding burst onto the scene so quickly that parents and community leaders were unsure how to deal with the “craze.” While it began as a form of leisure for surfers whe...

Did you know skateboards go back to the early 60s? In this week's blog post on Digital Childhoods, James Howard discusses the 'super surfer' that made parents and journalists clutch their pearls in horror: shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/super-su...

The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps The “High Tang” is the period long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This book is the first translation into any language of the only extant anthology compiled contemporaneously that was solely devoted to poetry composed during that period. It contains 230 poems by 24 different poets and was completed around 753, providing a rare contemporary view of what one well-informed reader considered the best verse of the age. The selections are of poems in various lengths, forms, and styles. The poets represented include most of those recognized since then as the greatest writers of the time, as well as those who seem largely forgotten now but who were in their own day held in equally high regard.

A new volume of the De Gruyter Library of Chinese Humanities!

The Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps

A parallel text translation of the only extant contemporaneous poetry anthology from the High Tang (completed ca 753 CE).

#openaccess
A.E. Hawthorne Barrento on "The discourse of travel, society and nation in Republican China",
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
doi.org/10.1017/S135...

Do you know a group or individual that has advocated for the value of history, the work of historians and/or the importance of an education in history in the last year? The Jane Hansen Prize for History Advocacy is now open for applications.

www.historycouncilvic.org.au/jane_hansen_...

#phavictas