China

Dear Colleagues,

Gui Minhai, the Swedish citizen, publisher and poet kidnapped from Thailand and detained by China since October 2015, has now been held for more than 1000 days. 

Recent developments are a mix of good news, and disheartening news: 

Gui Minhai, the Swedish citizen, publisher and poet kidnapped from Tha

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2019-2020 Fellowship competition. The Center, located in the heart of Washington, DC, awards approximately 15-20 academic year residential fellowships to academics, practitioners, journalists, former public officials, and independent experts from any country with outstanding project proposals on global issues. The Center welcomes policy-relevant proposals which complement the Center's programming priorities.

Dear Colleagues,

The history department at Emory University is running a search for three assistant professors in American history, and we are interested in candidates whose work engages with the Pacific World, including China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. The application due date is coming up soon: 15 September. 

For more information, check out the advertisement at

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56996.

Please spread the news!

Thank you,

Tonio Andrade

In the last round of Advanced Grants applications, the European Research Council (ERC) has selected my project entitled Elites, Networks and Power in modern urban China (1830-1949).

Call for Papers: Transitional Justice without Transition? Redressing Past Injustices under State Socialism

Dear Colleagues, 

Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645-770
$72.00 SGD

by Dorothy C. Wong

Dear Colleagues,