Alexander Statman

Historian of science and practitioner of law

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

@uiisasa @RossMoncrieff @TrudeDijkstra https://t.co/RZCkWuZULb

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

It was a delight to learn from these 4 amazing scholars through their reviews of “A Global Enlightenment” in a special issue of Global Intellectual History @Global_IH. Following them, I reflected a bit on the orphans of the Enlightenment. Hope to continue the conversation!

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

@uiisasa @RossMoncrieff https://t.co/jL07CWayA4

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

@uiisasa @XiaonaWang99 https://t.co/kdm1nJVZiv

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

@uiisasa https://t.co/KbEy5QFKrS

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

Congratulations to my friend and colleague Tristan Brown, whose book on the history of fengshui is truly exceptional.

[Tristan Brown @TristanGBrown]

I’m so humbled and honored that my book, “Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China,” received the 2024 John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History. Sincere thanks to all my colleagues and friends who supported me along this long and hard journey!

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

I am delighted to announce that I have been awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for “A Global Enlightenment.” Many thanks to all my fantastic friends and colleagues who helped me write it and to the American Historical Association for this extraordinary honor.

[American Historical Association @AHAhistorians]

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2024 awardees! #AHAPerspectives https://t.co/qmR1ACIpm5

[British Society for the History of Science ARCHIVE @BSHSNews]

📚"A Global Enlightenment" by Alexander Statman @DactylHex is shortlisted for the BSHS #PickstonePrize2024! Explore the overlooked exchange between European and Chinese science during the Enlightenment. Winner announced at #BSHS2024 in Aberystwyth, 10-13 Jul. Stay tuned! #HistSci

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

In the 1840s, Democratic Party radicals were known as “Locofocos.”

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

Things I like that are in Kafka on the Shore:

-barbecued eel
-tortoiseshell cats
-Schubert
-marlboros
-surfing
-dreams
-Hegel

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

I’m delighted to have such insightful and articulate readers for my book, A Global Enlightenment. Thanks @gianamar97 for the wonderful review in the LA Review of Books!

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"While Akhtar tells a protracted, Sinocentric story of China’s globalization, Statman reconstructs a key episode in which European modernity and Enlightenment were themselves Sinicized.” @gianamar97 reviews two books on Chinese modernity. https://t.co/oVwJWGp459

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"While Akhtar tells a protracted, Sinocentric story of China’s globalization, Statman reconstructs a key episode in which European modernity and Enlightenment were themselves Sinicized.” @gianamar97 reviews two books on Chinese modernity. https://t.co/oVwJWGp459

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

Is ‘timely” as an adverb a legal term of art? Or do scholars timely submit applications and timely grade papers too?

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

I never knew my love for The Chicago Manual of Style until I met The Bluebook.

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

Has anyone else recently noticed the word “moreso” encroaching on the traditional territory of “more?”

[Koji Hirata @hirako13]

There are two highly acclaimed books: 'How China Escaped the Poverty Trap' and 'How China Escaped Shock Therapy'. What will China escape in the next book?

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

Vexatious litigant: “And I believe I'm here on this earth to persist in this matter. There's never been anybody like me and hopefully there's nobody like me again. But this is my mission in life. You can slap me around, call me vexatious or whatever.” In re Upland Partners, 7.

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

@nytdavidbrooks You don’t get to call them “what are known as the thymotic desires” when the first Google hit for “thymotic desires” is an article you wrote in 2006.

[Alexander Statman @DactylHex]

“The groans, ineffably and mournfully sad, of Davies' dying donkey, have resounded around the earth. The last lingering gaze from the soft, mild eyes of this docile animal, like the last parting sunbeams of the softest day in spring, has appealed to and touched the hearts of men.