Smorgasborder @smorgasborder.bsky.social Pseudonymous hedge wizard. Winner of the 2012 Doberman Prize for Inconsequential Findings.
Steven Pieragastini @spieragastini.bsky.social Former academic now working in the antique map trade, based in San Francisco
Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
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Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social The first and largest open-access university press in the world. Based at ANU, we publish academic monographs and journals across a wide variety of disciplines.
C. Chevaleyre @cchevale.bsky.social Researcher at CNRS (early modern Chinese social history; bondage and labour)
Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social Beijinger roaming in Massachusetts; librarian-archivist
Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social Climate, water, birds, bluegrass mandolin. Member US National Academy of Sciences, MacArthur Fellow, Carl Sagan Prize, author of The Three Ages of Water (2023) and When the Well Runs Dry (2026). Email me at pgleick (at) gmail.
SHARP @sharpweb.org 📚 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
💚 Promoting humanities scholarship
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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social An open-access publication of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (@sharpweb.org).
Read Bookish Feature Articles, Book Reviews, Pedagogical Materials, and Bibliographies here: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews
Anna M Shields @annamshields.bsky.social Chinese literature prof at Princeton U; bibliophile, avid cook; dog- and sun-lover; cyclist; mom & grandma.
@disorientamenti.bsky.social @disorientamenti.bsky.social
Thomas Larkin @thomaslarkin.bsky.social Assistant Professor at the University of Prince Edward Island. Historian of China and the U.S., specializing in global historical and digital methods.
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Aaron William Moore @aaronwmoore.bsky.social Handa Chair of Japanese-Chinese Relations @Uni of Edinburgh. History and literature: 'Writing War' (Harvard UP, 2013), 'Bombing the City' (Cambridge UP, 2018), 'How Maoism Was Made' (Oxford UP, 2024), 'The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader' (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Mark E. Frank @markernstmeyer.bsky.social Historian of Modern China based in Ho Chi Minh City.
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
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Yvon Wang @yyvonwang.bsky.social 🏔️🏃♂️🏋️♂️📚🐈. NoCo🔁TO. 🚫Authoritarianism. 🚫Dehumanization. China+ at U of T. Rainbow mafioso. He/they.
Journal of Global History (JGH) @globalhistjnl.bsky.social The Journal of Global History is an open access journal published by Cambridge University Press. It aims to be the leading scholarly outlet for innovative analyses of global historical phenomena.
@ridgwayb.bsky.social @ridgwayb.bsky.social
Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social Historian of Modern China, Italian, food obsessed.
Morning Post 早报 @morningpost.bsky.social Morsels from CCP media.
Matthew Warner Osborn @nighthawkog.bsky.social Historian of early America. Author of Rum Maniacs: Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic, and Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/N/bo271055968.html
Joseph W. Ho @joseph-w-ho.bsky.social Historian of East Asia, visual culture | Associate Professor, Albion College | Photographer | Author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell, 2022) bit.ly/DevelopingMission
josephweiho.com
Tim @sanespace-88.bsky.social Hater of fascism
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
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Michelle @doctorlaoshi.bsky.social (she/her) Chinese professor at UNCo, mom of a wild thing, aspiring yogi. Currently translating 女仙外史
Shengqing Wu @shengqingwu.bsky.social Professor of Chinese Literature; author of Modern Archaics (2013) and Photo Poetics (2020)
Moss on Stone @mossonstone.bsky.social Mostly post links to primary sources on East Asian history. A big fan of the internet archive and its amazing collections. moss-on-stone at protonmail dot com.
Thomas P. Barrett @tpbarrett.bsky.social 慶應義塾大学法学部専任講師(中国近世・近代史、東アジア国際関係史)|Assistant Professor in Early Modern/Modern Chinese History, Keio University. Co-Editor, Japanese Sinology Series, CUHK Press.
Fredrik Fällman 杨富雷 @yangfulei.bsky.social #Swedish #Sinologist with many interests, e.g. #religion, #Xinjiang & #electronicmusic. Lives in Stockholm, works at University of Gothenburg, vice chairperson @pensweden.bsky.social
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
David Fedman @dfeds.bsky.social historian of japan/korea/the environment | words: davidfedman.org | digital archive: JapanAirRaids.org | film: https://papercityfilm.com/
Beijing Boyce ~ Jim Boyce in China @beijingboyce.bsky.social Beijing-based alcohol industry observer. Founder of World Baijiu Day and wine site Grape Wall of China.
Fan of Chinese wine, street food, happy hour and gin cocktails. Butter tart aficionado.
MariaRepnikova @mariarepnikova.bsky.social Academician, word technician, Atlantan, Russian-American-Latvian-Jew. Associate Prof @Georgia State in Global Comm; China expert. Author of Media Politics in China and Chinese Soft Power. Currently writing China's image-making in Africa.
Emily Baum @emilybaum.bsky.social Professor at UC Irvine (China, medicine, health humanities)
Runner/BQer/RRCA run coach
Author, Needled: How Acupuncture Became Alternative (forthcoming, Viking)
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
William A. Callahan 柯嵐安 @billcallahan.bsky.social China curious
filmmaker and writer
for films and articles see: SensiblePolitics.Net/
Latest film: "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China", see trailer: https://vimeo.com/962136803
Harvard University Press @harvardpress.bsky.social Publisher of original scholarship that has shaped our intellectual life for over a century & classics that have shaped our culture for two millennia. | https://www.hup.harvard.edu
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social Disseminating knowledge—through the publication of printed books, periodicals, and electronic files—beyond the confines of the University's campus.
The official account of Duke University is @duke-university.bsky.social.
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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
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Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social Host of the Sinica Podcast (https://sinicapodcast.com), former guitarist of Tang Dynasty, currently of the newly re-formed 春秋 (Spring & Autumn). Living in Beijing. Chinese history, politics, culture, society.
Shoufu Yin @shoufuyin.bsky.social https://sites.google.com/view/shoufuyin/home
Puck Engman @puckengman.bsky.social Teaches and writes about Chinese socialism
https://history.berkeley.edu/puck-engman
Mindi Zhang @mindyzhang.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History, UCLA
Modern China
Aspiring Historian of Information, Libraries, and Books
University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu Mission-driven nonprofit publisher committed to the idea of scholarship as a public good, serving intellectually curious readers for over 100 years.
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Steven W. Lewis 劉瓊毅 @liuqiongyi.bsky.social C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, @BakerInstitute.blsky.social and Prof. in the Practice, Department of Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University; Sinologist studying China center-local political communication, propaganda, energy. My own views.🏳️🌈
YC Wang @yuanchongwang.bsky.social 1. A native Shandongese from Shandong Peninsula, China
2. Associate Professor, Department of History, The University of Delaware
3. Editor-in-Chief, The Chinese Historical Review (since July 2024)
Nianshen Song @nianshen.bsky.social Historian at Tsinghua University. Focus (more or less) on Chinese and East Asian histories from early modern to contemporary period, history of cartography, and urban studies. Love painting, music, arts, and antique maps
Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social History, Carnegie Mellon University. Author of The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier and co-editor of Conflicting Memories: Tibetan History under Mao Retold. Inner Asia Book Reviews, Journal of Asian Studies
Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social Theater critic for The New Yorker, Approval Matrix Creatrix
Jelani Cobb @jelaniya.bsky.social your new neighbor from your old neighborhood. dean. writer. left-hander & occasional photographer. known to frequent the new yorker and columbia journalism school.
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
Elizabeth Kolbert @elizkolbert.bsky.social I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction," and “Life on a Little-Known Planet." Learn more at elizabethkolbert.com.
Rachel Riederer @readerer.bsky.social writer on science, culture, and the environment
professional allegiances: @newyorker & @newsguild.
back in the day @guernicamag
Jessica Winter @winterjessica.bsky.social https://www.harpercollins.com/products/one-more-than-one-jessica-winter?variant=45306334806050
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Rubén Almendros 嘉樹 @rubenalmendros.bsky.social PhD candidate at INALCO / IFRAE (Paris), working on late imperial Chinese xiaoshuo.
Ruoyun Bai 多伦多媒体研究白若云 @ruoyunbai.bsky.social Associate Professor of Media Studies/Comparative Literature, Univ. of Toronto, working on Chinese Media, Culture and Society. Author of "Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics" and co-editor of 3 books. Writing a book on scandals in China.
Elke Papelitzky @elkelitzky.bsky.social Associate professor of early modern Chinese history at the University of Oslo working on maps and maritime history
David G Atwill @dgatwill.bsky.social Historian of China and Tibet
Dean of Arts and Sciences, NYU Shanghai
Ji Li 李紀 @jiathk.bsky.social Historian@HKU, late imperial and modern China, social history, religious history, women and gender
Yige Dong @yige-dong.bsky.social Sociologist@SUNY Buffalo | labor, gender, political economy, China
International Society for Chinese Law and History @isclh.bsky.social The official account of a U.S.-based non-profit professional association for international scholars of Chinese law and history, broadly defined, with dues-paying members from leading research institutions worldwide. https://www.chineselawandhistory.com
Fei-Hsien Wang @feihsienwang.bsky.social Historian of modern China and Taiwan @ IUBloomington | knowledge making, historical imagination, home cooking,law & economic life
Ya Zuo 左娅 @zuoya.bsky.social Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
Emily Cassidy @enviroem.bsky.social Environmental scientist 🌏 focused on food and land use. Washington, DC area. @projectdrawdown.bsky.social, previously NASA, World Resources Institute, UMN. Opinions my own.
https://emilyscassidy.github.io/
Richard Horowitz @bookwitz.bsky.social Historian (China & World history) California State University, Northridge. Also makes comics
China Digital Times @chinadigitaltimes.net https://chinadigitaltimes.net/ – a Berkeley-based nonprofit publishing news and translations focused on human rights and freedom of expression in China
ChinaFile @chinafile.bsky.social Online magazine from Asia Society
Reporting, Analysis, Photography, Video and Conversation on China
𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social Knight Errant of the Meritorious Order of Sima Qian | Show: Qing [清朝], Xianfeng [咸豐] Era, 19th c. | Support Us & Extras: http://patreon.com/thehistoryofchina
@samuelwa.de @samuelwa.de Tracking and translating content on censorship and other human rights issues in China. Knows changes aren't permanent, but change is. Will stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.- W Chuck Wooldridge @wooldridge.bsky.social Sometimes called 吳克強. Historian working on maintenance and repair, Chinese religion, Taiwan, Qing history.
@arcticveggie.bsky.social @arcticveggie.bsky.social
Yu Wang @ywang1024.bsky.social Assistant Professor@sts Cornell
Sound Studies, China, STS
Steve Harrell @steveharrell.bsky.social Retired professor, unretired ethnographer, polyglot, part-time climate activist, occasional contrarian. Taiwan, China, and Whatcom County--Post mostly plants, mountains, energy transition. Occasionally political snark.
National Committee on U.S.-China Relations @ncuscr.bsky.social The National Committee on United States-China Relations fosters communication and exchange between the United States and China in support of productive bilateral relations and U.S. national interests.
ncuscr.org
Evan Osnos @eosnos.bsky.social Staff Writer @NewYorker. Fellow in the China Center @Brookingsinst. Latest book, "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Haves-and-Have-Yachts/Evan-Osnos/9781668204481
Visualising China @vischina.bsky.social Updates on Historical Photographs of China: explore 25,000 digitised images of photographs of China taken between 1850 & 1950. A University of Bristol project https://hpcbristol.net
We blog at https://visualisingchina.net/blog/
Robert Bickers @bickers.bsky.social Writer & historian. European. Professor of History, University of Bristol. Rewriting British and other history is my job. Find out more via my staff profile: http://tinyurl.com/rbickers, & blog: http://robertbickers.net I also run http://hpcbristol.net
Michael Höckelmann @medievalchina.bsky.social Sinologist working on medieval (200–1000) China・Reception of the European Middle Ages in China・Posts a selection of classical Chinese literature each day・中古・中世紀
Yan He @yanhecul.bsky.social Head of Chinese Section, under Research Collections Directorate at Cambridge University Library. Senior member of Robinson College. Views my own.
Clément Fabre @clementfabre.bsky.social Historian of 19th-20th c. imperial knowledge | Associate Professor @UPEC | Sinology, transcultural interactions, body, sensitivity, race, language, and material culture
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Julie Sullivan 朧淺夫人 @webwight.bsky.social Once an erudite nine-year-old, always an erudite nine-year-old. Early China, translation, kids' books, politics (2026), whimsy. Gen Z wannabe
https://quoteofthedayforthesetimes.substack.com/ [Quotations relevant to current events. FREE]
James Flowers @jimflowers.bsky.social
Lorraine Wilcox @l-wilcox.bsky.social Chinese medicine, translation, the old books, making herbal medicine, case studies, cats, crows
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org