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We are delighted to partner with Timothy Cheek's Revisiting the Revolution group to publish their collaborative translations, which make influential Chinese-language scholarship on PRC History accessible in English. prchistory.org/revisiting-the…

The inaugural issue of the cross-national translation project Revisiting the Revolution is finally out❗️Sharing important new scholarship with global readers, new translations will be posted regularly (once/twice per month). ✍️ I am humbled to be part of this great project 🙏

The number of times per day that I unironically refer to "the university" as though it were a sentient being . . .

A bicycle store in Peking,1911.

Put on my winter coat, thought I’d found some forgotten cash in the pocket, but it was just an old, crumpled, KN95 😢

Different scene of Beijing’s subway, 1983. ©️ leroy W. Demery Jr.

When he was the head of the Peasant Training Institute in 1926, Mao apparently made sure the canteen served rice for the southerners and wheat for the northerners, at least according to some of his students

Two autonomous collectives at UCSB & UC Davis have just simultaneously liberated two dining commons: De La Guerra @ UCSB & Latitude at Davis. Both are serving free meals to all until 3pm."Why it is that in the best public university system in the US, so many students are hungry?"

Zhengyang Gate 正阳门，Peking, 1880s.

New view on my way to work

A huge thank you to my fantastic co-panelists for our (standing room only!) panel on Global Maoism! Special thanks to our chair Tim Weston and our discussant Aminda Smith for their leadership and great questions Association for Asian Studies A summary of our panel; asianstudies.confex.com/asianstudies/2…

Love seeing #princetonstar Robin Resch *03 celebrated at #PrincetonReunions PrincetonGradAlumni Princeton University Graduate School reunions.princeton.edu/robin-resch-03/

An Airbnb bookshelf. It took me longer than it should have to realize this book has nothing to do with Mao.

NY Times, Oct 17, 1953

The PRC History Review now includes a Research Note series! Check out the first one, Aminda Smith on the origins of the term “Maoism,” and submit your own! prchistory.org/the-prc-histor…

Applications now open for the PRC History Research Methods Grad Seminar w/ Denise Y. Ho Yale History , @puckengman UC Berkeley History & Aminda Smith @MSUGenCen / History Department [online, Wednesdays, 1:30-3:20 EST, Aug 30 - Dec 6] Deadline: July 28 networks.h-net.org/group/3544/ann…

Critical China Scholars Respond to New McCarthyism and New York Times. criticalchinascholars.org/interventions/

Too early? Not for me

Everyone at the PRC History Group will miss Xiaohong immensely, as our friend and as a leader in PRC studies