Jeffrey Weng

Assistant Professor @ntu_sociology

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@jamestwotree Congrats!

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We invite applications for 1-2 faculty positions at all ranks beginning Feb 1, 2027. Area of specialization is open. Application materials due June 30, 2026. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to give a job talk in early September 2026.

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The deadline is approaching. Please tell suitable friends and colleagues to apply!

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@Yun__Xie Surprisingly, neither does my university! The journal is only letting me share the link to their official site, so DM me your email for a copy if interested! Happy to share

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

Pleased, at long last, to see my article on Chinese character simplification in print! (Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 83/2)
https://t.co/4oOLoOjNV4
1/6

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@KoehnJosh Ah, yes, the journal is only letting me share the link to their official site. DM me your email for a copy if interested!

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@andybliu Thanks! @kchienw just posted about Singapore. I know only the barest outlines of Japanese simplification, which I believe happened after WW2, but there were earlier reform efforts (including kana and Rōmaji societies in the 19th c.)

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

Language is material! Many thanks to the reviewers, as well as the managing editors Melissa Brown and Max Bohnenkamp, who saw it through to the finish line. 6/6

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

In part, this unwillingness led to the demise of simplification until the Communists took it up again in the 1950s. 5/6

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

Next semester I'm teaching (in English) a graduate seminar in sociology on contemporary Chinese society. l'll shamelessly use it to catch up on all the recent social science (and adjacent) books on China. I'd be deeply grateful for any recommendations!

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

Thanks so much to @kuokuomich and @albertowu for their wisdom and support as I wrote personally for the first time in a long while! A true privilege to appear in their latest Substack post:

[Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) @kuokuomich]

"Being closeted is a skill ... It’s remembering who you’ve told what when and where." This wonderful essay by @jeffreyweng describes coming out—or as he puts it, fail to come out—in Taiwan, where an “undercurrent of conservatism belies its happy surface.”
https://t.co/dmZWmWut5c

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@yrlsoc Amazing. So grateful for this! Thank you!

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

Teaching a course on historical sociology for the first time this semester. Tentative readings: Weber, Moore, P. Anderson, Skocpol &c. Archival research final project. Anyone mind sharing past syllabi? Would be incredibly grateful for any help! #soctwitter #twitterstorians

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NTU Sociology invites applications for one tenure-track faculty position, beginning on Aug 1, 2023. All ranks and fields of specialization are welcome to apply. Application deadline is Oct 31, 2022. Please help spread the words. #soctwitter #TaiwanTwitter
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[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@hirako13 Netflix 的 Stranger Things 被翻成了《怪奇物語》

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@DGTam86 @XinFan9 And that book on dialect and nationalism! 😆

[Jeffrey Weng @jeffreyweng]

@Xiaohong__Xu @PulitzS @fredyan Am interested in seeing a recording as well!