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Tom Mullaney

4 months

Look what came in the mail! After 16 long years, The Chinese Computer comes out in 2 weeks. #unboxing @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

Making the 1st digital fonts for Chinese in the 70s & 80s was extremely hard work. Each character was 256 bits Or really: 256 choices re: where to put a pixel, or not, inside a tiny grid. 1000s of characters, 100s of 1000s of choices. HELP! Where can I pitch this article?

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Our new #FLOTUS Jill Biden holds a doctorate in education with a dissertation entitled “Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs”

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Global History through Graphic Novels Cannot wait to teach the course derailed by Covid so long ago…

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Despite spanning over 60 degrees of latitude, China has only 1 time zone, "Beijing Time" (UTC+8). The unification of time in the PRC is a fascinating topic that has not been explored nearly enough in the literature. /THREAD

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Ever wonder how Morse code works in Chinese? Telegraphy nerds, you've come to the right place. THREAD

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4 years

If anyone wants to read Jill Biden's doctoral dissertation, here it is: … #flotus #humanities4ever

Jill-JacobsBiden_Dissertation.pdf

drive.google.com

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3 years

Chinese typesetters. Respect.

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11 months

This is a fascinating post, even beyond the reasons one might expect! Jumping right in, the Chinese characters 中國航空公司 appear pixelated, almost like low-resolution bitmap fonts... Cool, huh? But wait there's more... /1 Thread cc @yifanxxx

MOFBA • Advertising History in China

@MOFBACN

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"See China by plane" - ca. 1935 advertisement for the China National Aviation Corp. (CNAC) with headquarter in Shanghai.

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Tom Mullaney

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My Mother died yesterday, less than 48 hours after the birth of our son. She waited up as long as she could, to know that Arthur got in safe, and then she went to sleep. For Merri Mullaney (1945-2021) and Arthur Vernari Mullaney (2021- ) How I wish you two could have met.

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Tom Mullaney

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4 years

My parents once attended one of my lectures at Stanford, sitting in the front row. Both of them fell asleep

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Tom Mullaney

@tsmullaney

10 months

My new book has a cover and a pub date! The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

In 1947, a young woman demo’ed the @IBM Electric Chinese Typewriter. 70 years later, I finally found her, and learned her story. It’s amazing. I need a magazine or newspaper I can pitch this article to! HELP PLEASE!

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1 year

They "couldn't really tell the difference between whether I was Chinese or Japanese or Korean or if I even spoke English. They would talk very loudly and very slow." A thread re: #MichelleYeoh & how 1 barometer of Anti-Asianism is the portrayal of Chinese-language technology /1

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3 years

In 1947, a young woman demo’ed the ⁦ @IBM ⁩ Electric Chinese Typewriter. 70 years later, I finally found her, and learned her story. It’s amazing. via ⁦ @FastCompany ⁩ cc ⁦ @IEEEhistory ⁩ ⁦ @ComputerHistory ⁩ ⁦ @nancyngo ⁩

Meet the mystery woman who mastered IBM's 5,400-character Chinese typewriter - Fast Company

Lois Lew operated the improbable, ill-fated machine with aplomb in presentations from Manhattan to Shanghai. 70-plus years later, she’s telling her story.

www.fastcompany.com

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Tom Mullaney

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4 months

Researching The Chinese Typewriter & The Chinese Computer also brought me to the Huntington Library, which houses one of the oldest surviving Chinese typewriters in the world.

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@tsmullaney

4 months

As I reflect on the process of researching & writing The Chinese Typewriter and The Chinese Computer, I thought I highlight sites worldwide that house critical sources on the history of Chinese, Asian, and Non-Western IT. In no order, #1 is the BnF in Paris

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

ps I should mention: I have access to ALL of the process documents and rough drafts. It is an *unbelievably* cool archival collection!!!

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4 years

"Balls Out" is not a sexual expression referring to genitalia. It refers to the Maxwell Governor, a proto-Cybernetic device that managed a machine's operating speed via a centrifugally controlled valve. The hotter the machine ran, the faster the governor spun (hence: Balls Out).

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Tom Mullaney

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5 years

I know there are more pressing things, but I can't pull myself away from prep for my Spring 2020 course, Global History 1c (Modern period). I'm crafting it around 9 graphic novels. I think each will be paired with 1 journal article/chapter, and of course, archival work

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Tom Mullaney

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6 years

It's official. I'm now Full Professor @StanfordHistory

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Tom Mullaney

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2 years

Jonathan Spence wrote a good portion of The Search for Modern China in... a pizzeria.

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Tom Mullaney

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4 years

Secret Way to Find Archival Materials in the U.S. Go to Google Enter this in your search bar, exactly: “XYZ” AND “Finding Aid” Replace XYZ with your phrase, name, term Enjoy! 90% of results will be from Archives, Special Collections, etc.

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

There’s a deeper history to “Chinese Alphabets” like this. Much of it orientalist, exoticizing, racist. But some is ad admixture of eccentrism + brilliance, spear-headed by Chinese inventors—esp. ones interested in Telegraphy, Computing, and Chinese I.T. more broadly. THREAD/1

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my 3rd grader came home with this today from school, excited to show me how he’d written his name in Chinese. I had to gently explain to him that this is, uh… extremely Not Correct

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3 years

If I made this into an online course, who would be interested? 🖐?

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It's an honor & dream-come-true to receive the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching, @Stanford University's highest teaching prize. I am beyond grateful to my students, advisees, and colleagues.

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3 years

Junior colleagues: NEVER share your unpublished manuscript with a senior colleague unless you’re sure you can trust them.

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6 years

I am so happy and honored to share this news: I just received the the John K. Fairbank Prize for The Chinese Typewriter: A History ( @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia 2017)

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Tom Mullaney

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6 years

As a @Stanford historian I find this utterly intolerable and repulsive. It is a breach of ethics, and a gross abuse of power. What will the response be @HooverInst @StanfordAlumni

A conservative Stanford professor plotted to dig up dirt on a liberal student

Ferguson’s leaked emails show what’s really going on in the campus free speech fight.

www.vox.com

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Tom Mullaney

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9 months

In February 2016, I signed a 3-book contract with @mitpress In May 2024, just 5 months away, I finally make good on that commitment. (Thank you for your patience, MITP!)

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Tom Mullaney

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1 year

At last, the Chinese translation of The Chinese Typewriter! My copy arrived! 中文打字机

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

In China, a vast, vibrant, & illegal publishing world exploded in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. Using little more than Chinese typewriters, mimeograph machines & stencils, a “Chinese Zine Revolution” was launched. HELP: I’d love to pitch this story 2 a mag/newspaper, but where?

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Tom Mullaney

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2 years

I'm now officially (both) a Professor of History (and) a Professor of East Asian Language and Cultures, by Courtesy! This is an honor, and I greatly appreciate my colleagues @Stanford EALC for this invitation and formal review.

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Tom Mullaney

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4 years

It is an absolute thrill to share the cover of our forthcoming book, Your Computer is on Fire, set to come out in March 2021 w/ @mitpress | Co-edited with @bjpeters @histoftech and @techno_kavi More info here (+ TOC in the thread below!):

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5 years

It's Official! *Your Computer is on Fire* is now "Forthcoming 2020" @mitpress Here's a little preview of what you expect... /1

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5 years

If computer science should be taught in middle school onwards then so should critical media studies

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3 years

Long before Xu Bing’s famed Square Word Calligraphy, Chinese-American psychotherapist H.C. Tien shattered boundaries btw Chinese & Latin script. His “Chinese Transalphabet” had 1000s of Sino-Latin “ambigrams” Art? No. An attempt 2 solve Chinese computing! Where 2 pitch story?

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At first glance, a Chinese instruction manual of some kind. But look closely: everything here - every single word without exception - is in English. This is An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy, a livre d'artiste by the acclaimed Chinese contemporary artist Xu Bing. 1/7

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Very bad news for China scholars, via a colleague: “The Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC) has recently imposed new oversight requirements on Chinese publishers and exporters of information.” /1

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4 years

Slowly but surely... @mitpress

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Tom Mullaney

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2 years

So excited for the arrival of Janet Chen's new book, The Sounds of Mandarin

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WTF?

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

It’s an honor and thrill to share that I just signed w/ @wwnorton for a book I’ve been writing for 20 years. It’s called How We Disappear. It’s a study of Entropy & Information + a memoir about the death of my father & mother.

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2 years

Early introduction to computing for Chinese children

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2 years

Xu Bing 徐冰 & Wang Min 王敏 wrote prefaces for the Chinese translation of The Chinese Typewriter, out next month. I just found out and I'm speechless. Good night. cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia

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3 years

Making the 1st digital fonts for Chinese in the 70s & 80s was EXTREMELY HARD. Each character = 256 bits 256 choices: to put a pixel, or not, inside a tiny grid. 1000s of characters, 100,000s of choices. My latest @techreview --A dream come true, thx 2 @AmyNordrum 👇👇👇

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

3 years

NEW: Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts

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1 year

“Han, Solo: Understanding the Ethnonational Divide in Communist China.”

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2 years

The Chinese Computer is now fully revised and in production. More info soon on pub date. Thank you so, so much to the brilliant ms workshop participants & other colleagues who helped me in this critical phase @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia @ComputerHistory @IEEEComputerSoc

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4 years

It can take 10 years (520 weeks) to write a serious work of scholarship. It takes 1 week to read one. It takes 1 second to be an Anti-Intellectual Be proud of what you do, your commitment, and your patience.

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4 years

Going on the job market? I'm sharing copies of every cover letter I wrote as an ABD grad student. Pick them up here:

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1 year

Who has two thumbs and was just named Director of Honors in ⁦ @StanfordHistory ⁩ ? This guy! 😃

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6 years

As I get ready to turn 40 this Saturday, I'm excited to share: my department voted recently to promote me to the position of Full Professor. I have so many people to thank that I don't know where to begin.

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

(I was so moved and inspired by everyone’s help yesterday, that I thought it best to ask the wisdom of the crowd again!)

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5 years

You Saved @stanfordpress Thank You. Authors, submit your Manuscripts here: #YouSavedSUP cc @aupresses @chronicle @KQEDForum

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5 years

It's Official! *Your Computer is on Fire* is now "Forthcoming 2020" @mitpress Here's a little preview of what you expect... /1

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6 years

Grateful & proud to announce: The Chinese Typewriter has just been awarded the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, by @MediaEcology cc @mitpress @WEAI_Columbia

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2 years

Friend: "Congratulations on how the book is doing in China!" Me:🫥? (...checks🧑‍💻) "The Chinese Typewriter" is #9 of *all* Non-Fiction books on Douban this week, with 100+ reviews, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, 9.8 out of 10 rating 😳🫠🙃 中文打字机 cc @mitpress

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1 year

I invite you to @Stanford to see the machine in person. I donated it to Stanford from my personal collection a few years ago

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1 year

In 1940, Toshiba produced a new kind of typewriter, featuring a horizontal cylinder featuring 1172 Japanese and Chinese characters. This system remained in production until 1954 [full video: ] [read more: ]

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The Chinese Computer is finally coming out. 15 years in the making... Help please! I need advice. Which languages would you like to see it translated into? Which presses would make a good home for it?

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Tom Mullaney

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3 years

I'd like to share a piece I wrote for today's @guardian

How China went from celebrating ethnic diversity to suppressing it | Thomas S Mullaney

The brutal clampdown in Xinjiang represents an about-face from the communist party’s original approach to cultural differences, says professor of Chinese history Thomas S Mullaney

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

As an archival historian used to looking at photographs 100 years old, just know this: Given time, you are going to look fucking awesome in every single photo that has ever been taken of you. So relax, don’t be so self-conscious, and just live your life.

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2 years

Beida talk: Dream come true

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2 months

For 21 years, I've been working on a book, mainly in secret. During Coming to Terms with the Nation, I was writing it. During The Chinese Typewriter, I was, too. During The Chinese Computer, I was, too. I finished it yesterday. Lots more editing in store, but here it is.

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After the 1911 revolution, the Republic of China established the Central Observatory & proposed a 5-part division of time to bring the country in accordance with international norms. These 5 time zones included Changbai, Central, Long-Shu, Hui-Zang, & Kunlun zones. /4

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4 years

Prepping my Chinese/East Asian Information Technology History Collection for donation, to make it available to fellow scholars. Upon donation it will be the largest collection of its kind in the entire world. Indeed, no history of Chinese IT will be complete w/o consulting it.

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5 years

I've been named 2021 Kluge Chair* in Technology & Society at the Library of Congress. It's such an honor to walk in footsteps of @DameWendyDBE @manuelcastells @HelenMargetts ... @librarycongress @KlugeCtr *Despite title "Chair" I'm *not* leaving @Stanford

Thomas S. Mullaney Named Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress |...

Thomas S. Mullaney was recently named the Kluge Chair in Technology and Society at the Library of Congress. According to the John W. Kluge Center's website, "The Kluge Chair in Technology and...

history.stanford.edu

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3 years

I may also teach this via @StanfordCSP if they’re interested. This would open it up to… well… the whole world!

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1 year

The ridicule of Chinese IT has a *long* history, dating back to Chinese typewriting. As I tried to show in The Chinese Typewriter ( @mitpress ), 1900 was a turning point where people began to deride the Chinese language/language tech as a proxy for anti-Chinese racism /4

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2 years

How to get undergrads to ask better questions of their sources? I saw a tweet with this question, and wanted to share one exercise that works with me. /1

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4 years

Univeristy Presses need to start publishing peer-reviewed mini-essays. 8000 words, exquisitely designed books, low cost, print and digital, like the Oxford Shorts series but tighter. God, I’d love to be the Series Editor. Any interest @mitpress @stanfordpress @UChicagoPress ...?

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4 years

Want to see what a computer program might look like if it were coded in Chinese? No? Tough. Here it is.

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6 years

I'm delighted to announce that the contract has been signed w @mitpress for Your Computer is on Fire: The Politics of Global Computing and New Media - edited by myself @tsmullaney @bjpeters @histoftech & #KavitaPhilip (tentative title)

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1 year

How I write my books

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3 years

Come say hi on TikTok, graphic novel lovers! 👋

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5 years

Stanford admin is crass and oblivious enough to ask us “Which to fund: PhD students or @stanfordpress ?” to which we say: “Bullsh** We don’t accept the premise.” It’s 100% hypocrisy to say you’re pro-PhD student, then burn down the ecology in which they begin their careers

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When you spend 16 years on a project, you lose people along the way. Family, like my Mom and Dad. Friends and Colleagues, like Bruce Rosenblum & Halcyon Lawrence. People who invited me into their worlds, like Lois Lew. I dedicate The Chinese Computer to them.

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4 years

Thrilled 2 announce that Christopher Rea (UBC) & I have signed a contract with @uchicagopress for a book (tentatively) called: WHERE RESEARCH BEGINS: Choosing a Research Project that Matters to You (and the World) It took us 18 years to write. Now it's done & arrives Spr '22

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2 years

The Pre-History of Chinese Digital Humanities Excited for my upcoming virtual talk at PKU

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4 years

Just received an email from Condoleezza Rice, who saw my video. I promised 2 compile a list for her of early career historians of China & India. Whose work should *every* former NSA/Secretary of State read? I’ll start: @kellyahammond @DGTam86 Post your recs here pls👇

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My response to comments by @CondoleezzaRice @HooverInst Condoleezza Rice Wants to "Make History Great Again"

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How old were you when you learned that “broccoli” is a plural noun? As in... 🥦 🥦 = 2 broccoli 🥦 = 1 broccolo

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Happy Saturday (Look what just arrived from @UChicagoPress )

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Before Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Yeoh's early U.S. film debut was with the James Bond franchise. Yeoh later revealed how depleting/damaging the experience was for her. /3

Why James Bond Put Michelle Yeoh Out Of Work For Two Years

James Bond helped, but also hurt, Yeoh.

screenrant.com

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Spring 2020 Course @Stanford : Global History through Graphic Novels

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16 years &... the book is out. Thanks to countless colleagues, friends, loved ones who made it happen. Thanks+ to @mitpress for putting in so much effort. Yesterday alone, 3 outlets featured it ( @FastCompany @SCMPNews @techreview ) & I'm grateful 🧵

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East...

The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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It’s official! @UChicagoPress will be publishing the “Secret Book” that my friend Christopher Rea and I spent 18 years writing. Title = TBA, but it’s a guide on How to Begin a Research Project. Thrilled to join The Craft of Research, From Dissertation to Book, Turabian...

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Tenured professors: plz share 1 thing you’re doing right now (beyond normal duties) to help your junior colleagues & to make academia an incrementally more humane and just place to work

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If anyone wants to learn more about "lo-res" Chinese, this has been a passion of mine. Here's an article I wrote for @techreview /8

Behind the painstaking process of creating Chinese computer fonts

More than 40 years ago, designers drew and edited thousands of characters by hand to make it possible to type and print in Chinese.

www.technologyreview.com

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CFP: Up to $2,000 for grad students and undergrads interested in coming to @Stanford to study the past, present, and future of I.T. in China (and East Asia more broadly). JUST ANNOUNCED by @StanfordLibs cc @IEEEhistory @ComputerHistory @SIGCIS

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Studying Chinese Typewriters and Chinese Computers over the past 16 years also brought me into contact w/ the world-famous Chinese poster collection by Stefan Landsberger. This is my personal favorite, merging Mao-era propaganda & Chinese typewriters

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Tenure, Denied: An Honest Conversation about a Taboo Topic Jan 12, 2022 @ 12noon PST

Tenure, Denied: Honest Talk About a Taboo Subject

Tenure, Denied: An Honest Conversation about a Taboo Subject

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What a gift and what luck to be able to spend a life researching, writing, learning, teaching… Every day, I say thanks to the universe

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6 years

The contract is signed! My museum exhibit - Radical Machines: Chinese in the Information Age - is officially coming to #NYC ! It will show @mocanyc in Fall 2018 - Stay tuned for details! cc @AsiaSocietyNY @WEAI_Columbia @AASAsianStudies @helkekat @LindaHall_org @Cuhklibrarian

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Quick Friday poll: would anyone watch a documentary on the history of Chinese computing and new media? Maybe also including Asia more broadly? Interviews, cool graphics, compelling storyline?

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The live course is over but would anyone be interested in me making the recordings available?

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Spring 2020 Course @Stanford : Global History through Graphic Novels

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Enrollment now open @Stanford

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While scholars have explored the standardization of time in a Euro-American context, little attention has been paid to China's trajectory. China was not represented at any major events related to global time, & the origins of Beijing Time remain somewhat shrouded in mystery. /3

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What I recall, because of my work on Chinese IT history, was the strange cameo made by a Chinese computer, in which the presumed otherness/alterity/strangeness/absurdity of Chinese IT was on display /3

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Imagine if, one day, E n g l i s h w a s w r i t t e n l i k e t h i s . That’s what happened 2 Chinese in the 1910s, the opposite way: VERTICAL ➡️HORIZONTAL (at least on the mainland) A fascinating story full of eccentric characters. HELP! Where can I pitch this story?

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The Chinese Computer is done. It comes out May 2024 @mitpress I can't thank enough all the friends, family, students and colleagues who made this 15-year journey possible. Here is the dedication.

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Final Hours to Sign-Up for the "Secret Syllabus" Mentorship Programs! An amazing group from 60 colleges in 13 different countries have signed up so far!