Gregory Adam Scott 貓旁齋居士

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Senior Lecturer in Chinese Culture and History at the University of Manchester. Canadian. Views are the result of a temporary collaboration between five Skandhas.
Looking forward to hosting Michael Nylan (UC Berkeley) this Thursday, 9/28, 4:30-6pm ET, for a talk titled, "Why Re-translating a Classic?" She is a leading historian of early China and the translator of several works including Sunzi's The Art of War. Everybody is welcome. Please register in advance: https://rccs.rutgers.edu/events/events-list/icalrepeat.detail/2023/09/28/2370/-/why-re-translate-a-classic-michael-nylan-university-of-california-berkeley
Why Re-translate a Classic? (Michael Nylan, University of California Berkeley)

Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Very easy
New vinyl Friday

When I was asked to write about the comfort women and denialism earlier this year, I felt more compelled to write about Colabo. It took a while but I'm glad it came out.

https://kyeol.kr/en/node/541

Please consider donating to Colabo. https://colabo-official.net/support/

#japan #sexualviolence #misogyny

Colabo’s Fights against Sexual Exploitation and Misogyny in Japan Today

“Until we find each other, we are alone.” - Adrienne Rich Reflecting on the value of women's solidarity, the 2023 webzine Kyeol prepared a special feature to explore the current state of violence agai

Webzine-KYEOL
It's been out for a while, but now it is also officially part of the latest issue of Global Intellectual History vol 8.5 (2023)
Modelling Tang Emperor Taizong and Chinese Governance in the Eighteenth-Century German-Speaking World https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23801883.2022.2104741
Modelling Tang Emperor Taizong and Chinese Governance in the Eighteenth-Century German-Speaking World

From the middle decades of the eighteenth century Tang Emperor Taizong (r. 626–649) was cited in French, German, English, Italian, and Dutch books and periodicals as a universal model of good gover...

Taylor & Francis
Proofs for my book cover are in. Original art by J. Yu (my wife, Jenny). Will be published by Cornell University Press early next year. Link, which will have an open-access version as well: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773839/poet-monks/
Poet-Monks by Thomas J. Mazanec | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative...

Cornell University Press
I've been cataloguing Buddhist primers from the early 20th century recently, and was struck by the vibrancy of this cover, more than a century after its publication. Foxue yijie 佛學易解, 1917 https://crta.info/wiki/%E4%BD%9B%E5%AD%B8%E6%98%93%E8%A7%A3_-_DCCB1282
佛學易解 - DCCB1282 - Chinese Religious Text Authority

照片出處 · 國立臺灣大學圖書館數位典藏館

78rpm records are going up, now (thousands will go up over the next few days):

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?query=publicdate%3A%5B2023-04-01+TO+*%5D+AND+format%3Amp3&sort=-publicdate

(these will have the words extracted automatically from the songs or speeches, which will be fun)

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

原料積込狀況 National Taiwan University Library Collection https://dl.lib.ntu.edu.tw/s/photo/page/list #taiwanhistory #taiwanphoto #taiwan
照片出處 · 國立臺灣大學圖書館數位典藏館