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Happy new year!
火馬迎春, 吉慶有餘。

(Inspired by a Ming illustrator and shared intelligence.)

CFA: two 3-year postdoc positions with Merlijn Hurx at KU Leuven in architectural history: one on building technology in the Yangtze delta and one on building markets in Europe and China. The deadline for applications is 16 March 2026.
https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60620925?lang

Postdoctoral researcher ERC project URBAN-DELTA

Join the ERC project URBAN DELTA to study the historical foundations of megapolises in deltas in China and Europe

Hilde De Weerdt Feb 4

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hildedeweerdt/116012904917992820

We aim to further expand our offerings. If you are working in the history of political thought and have a proposal in mind for thematic collections or important works and thinkers in East or Central Asian political thought, please get in touch. We cover early, medieval, early modern, and modern political thought.

Link to the series: https://www.cambridge.org/core/series/cambridge-texts-in-the-history-of-political-thought/CC1E9888A90FEA2D68B4CF40E7F7A1E7

Hilde De Weerdt Feb 4

The third East Asian title is now out in Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series! Following Wu Jing: The Essentials of Governance and Kumazawa Banzan: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven, Peter Flueckiger's Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy is now available via Cambridge Core.

Hilde De Weerdt Sep 15, 2025

If you're interested in the history of book, check out this exhibit curated by Martin Heijdra at Princeton. It's a model exhibit i many ways, covering different parts of the world and images are in IIIF so you can zoom into the tiniest details and take them with you to do with whatever you want--screenshot of the well-known exam cheat shirt, that you could now read (or in our IMMARKUS service, transcribe and translate with the assistance of a range of AI models). Cheers!
https://dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-forms

Hilde De Weerdt Mar 11, 2025

Off to Columbus, OH and to Madison, WI. I have always been curious about Madison, a place of great East Asianists and great historians. The best lecture I ever attended was by Bill Cronon who was then visiting Stanford, an environmental historian working mainly on American history, it was like a one-speaker orchestra. Can't promise anything like it, but am looking forward to meeting the graduate students who put together this wonderful series on the Lure of Information. https://humanities.wisc.edu/borghesi.../lure-of-information/

Hilde De Weerdt Mar 11, 2025

Cambridge University Press is organizing a joint info session for its journals. Come talk to us if you have questions about submitting to the Journal of Chinese History at the AAS book exhibit, Saturday 10am.

Hilde De Weerdt Feb 28, 2025

Coming up March 10 at KU Leuven: a talk and reading seminar with Covell Meyskens on water management and state power.

For more information on talk and seminar:
https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/the-three-gorges-dam-and-the-rise-of-chinese-state-capitalism/

https://www.infrastructurelives.eu/events/reading-group-with-prof-covell-f-meyskens/

10/03/2025 The Three Gorges Dam and the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism

The ERC Project “Regionalizing Infrastructures in Chinese History” and the KU Leuven Early Modern History Research Group are organizing a presentation and discussion with Prof. Covell F. Meyskens (Naval Postgraduate School). The talk, titled The Three Gorges Dam and the Rise of Chinese State Capitalism, will take place on Monday,

The Lives and Afterlives of Material Infrastructures

Hilde De Weerdt Jan 30, 2025

Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought by Mark Lewis, freely available until Feb 29
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/self-and-body-in-early-east-asian-thought/DBAAED6D23EBC9F02DFC582D2B399501?fbclid=IwY2xjawIIjmFleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHeNt4QCBVudyrik0S-59tGXGvGF786F1-M-mRxqN0imsFgBYtTj8cpKDCQ_aem_NGTQkDnHPrcr2X2xnQ0w7A

Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought

Cambridge Core - East Asian History - Self and Body in Early East Asian Thought

Cambridge Core

Hilde De Weerdt Jan 29, 2025

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