FredShan

historian, librarian. 🚃🚆🛫☕️.

[Yun Xie @Yun__Xie]

The shadow library Anna's Archive acquired a unique collection of 7.5M/350TB Chinese non-fiction books. They are seeking OCR and LLM partnerships, offering a year of free access.
But is Anna entitled to provide this access?https://t.co/B6DsOkN5U2 1/4

[FredShan @freddshann]

So true!

[Matthew W. Mosca @mwmosca]

Excited to spot another episode of this great podcast on Chinese history: https://t.co/uZ8uXBLmAr

[Shanghai Museum @ShanghaiMuseum]

#AdvancingWithTheTime
Liuzhou (1791–1858) was excelled at making paper rubbings. The rubbing below that looks like a black and white photo was one of his most famous works. It was taken from a goose foot lamp🪔 made in 33 BCE. The monk in red shoes working on the lamp is Liuzhou.

[FredShan @freddshann]

@DevinFitzger So gorgeous!

[FredShan @freddshann]

@DevinFitzger Alma and Primo are surely making local holdings more and more irrelevant to "discovery."

[FredShan @freddshann]

Bought the exhibit catalogue for our library the first moment it was announced. Now really wondering if our catalogs could have an entry or a note: contains copyright infringement content/contributors unfairly treated. What a disappointment.

[Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter]

Um, hey @britishmuseum, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator

[John Alekna @JohnAlekna]

China historians: some hopeful news. I was able to visit the new First Historical Archive today. It’s true that you need a Chinese phone number to make an appointment online, but the new facility is wonderful.

[Wilson Chan @LeviLivy]

Cynthia Brokaw, '“How to Do Everything Right”: The Daily Use Encyclopedias of the Ming and Qing as Sources for Social History', Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre, 1400–1530 22 Jul, 2023. Both online and in-person.
https://t.co/xrAa7VaoHR

[NYPL Humanities @NYPLHumanities]

Join librarians as they explore the history of organized labor at the Library with The Class Mark, a publication from the 1930s written by the Library's units of the Communist Party of the U.S.A. and the Young Communist League.

https://t.co/2i2cv97lfy

[Duke University Press @DukePress]

"At Home in Nature: Technology, Labor, and Critical Ecology in Modern China," a thematic issue of Prism edited by Ben Wang is now available! View the TOC & read "Chapter Eight: Toxic Colonialism, Alienation, and Posthuman Dystopia in Chen Qiufan" for free: https://t.co/ZbVbBd15Ee

[FredShan @freddshann]

Favorite activity on the street to witness and experience in the 90s Taiyuan. Remember a ride during which the driver had to get off and adjust poles so many times.

[Vintage Shanghai @VintageShanghai]

An interesting experience in the 1980s and 1990s #Shanghai: get off and help push the trolleybus you were on.

[FredShan @freddshann]

In our collection at @utlibraries, there is a Japanese 1874 remake/translation of the Quanti xinlun by Benjamin Hobson, first published in Shanghai in 1851. The 1874 Japanese edition redid the illustrations with copperplate. Chinese version from Harvard: https://t.co/OSD3tppDIp.

[FredShan @freddshann]

A Tokugawa manuscript drained my Monday-afternoon energy.

[ECA Material and Visual Culture Seminar @mvcseminar]

‘Historical Fragments: Making, Breaking, and Remaking’ is tomorrow and there is still time to register to attend online! Sign up by 5pm (BST) today and join us to hear from a fantastic line-up of speakers including a keynote from @CMurray1603.

https://t.co/4PtoB0EjpJ

[FredShan @freddshann]

Saturday chill.

[Cheryl Misak @MisakCheryl]

RIP Ian Hacking.
Feb 18 1936 - May 10 2023
A very bright light has gone out.

[Cambridge University Press - History @cambUP_History]

New Cambridge Element Late Tang China and the World, 750–907 CE by Shao-yun Yang is now free to read for 2 weeks!
https://t.co/SPBSvOHejG
#cambridgeelements #history