Scott Gregory
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Arizona, director of UA Center for East Asian Studies
Author of Bandits in Print, available as a free download from Cornell University Press
Personal account; views are my own
- 名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。
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- The humble Preview app is my go-to but don’t know what to do here, sorry!
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- Have you tried the stock Preview app?
- The Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor position to serve as Japanese Language Program Director! One of THREE open positions in EAS!
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- I would probably just assign this Hank Green video. Bonus: many undergrads will already know who Hank Green is.
- Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)
- Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)
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- They shouldn't be anxious! Our ad calls for "Native or near-native proficiency in Mandarin Chinese and English," which sounds to me like either way would be fine. Meaning, professional duties would require adequate levels of both for teaching and research.
- ...suggestions?
- U of Arizona East Asian Studies is hiring a tenure-track Chinese Language Program director! I'm happy to answer any questions about it, the department, Tucson, etc. Please circulate widely:
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- The link gave me a 404 but I found the article here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
- Playing around with AppleScript to automate boring professor stuff and how did I go so long without doing this?
- Here we go. <Elimination> of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide. Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
- It would also be nice if some elected officials representing districts with NRCs and FLAS would speak up about the benefits these programs bring. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @gallego.senate.gov
- This would be the end of the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies:
- Here we go. <Elimination> of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide. Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
- Inside Higher Ed reporting on funding for National Resource Centers like the one here at University of Arizona. If the already-awarded federal funds are not released by 9/30, they are gone and the Center for East Asian Studies will likely close.
- We founded the U of Arizona Center for East Asian Studies three years ago with a US Dept of Education grant. Last Friday marked the end of year 3 of 4. Though the grant was for four years, we have not received word about year 4 funding. Without this support, we have no choice but to close down.
- Start your weekend with an ambient DJ tea ceremony
- Start your day by watching James Brown commandeer David Letterman's show
- Speaking of Genji, if anyone is interested, the audiobook of the Tyler translation, read by Brian Nishii, is quite good. Somebody please get him to do a Heike audiobook!
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- Great setup! Yoyaku record store?
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- I think an important thing about Genji is he is *meant* to be transgressive, hence the "Murasaki in Hell" discourse etc. IIRC, Bowring's "Student Guide" has a nice intro to all that.
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- On the bright side, we are spared people pronouncing it as “gee Yahtzee”
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- I feel like I don’t know what I’m looking at unless I check out the intro first.
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- Wow, *two* new No Longer Human translations/audiobooks?
- Living for those green smileys... Tideman here I come! #CS50x
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- Guess we gotta do it ourselves then, 替天行道！
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- This, especially, is great! Outreach is so important. Thanks for doing this for the field.
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- I would add, “Why do you want to be here *specifically*, as opposed to somewhere else?” We occasionally get great candidates that we just have nothing to offer, so we turn them down.
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- This sounds fantastic, best of luck!
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- Seconded, with language(s) being the big one. There's just not enough time in a two-year MA program to get someone up to speed if they don't have the language coming in.
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- Happy to say that my department offers "funding," which is actually TA positions, for most of our MA students. Of course, that is contingent on enrollment in undergrad classes, etc. etc.
- Love to see those green smileys.... #CS50
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- It’s great, right?
- Did the excellent @cs50.harvard.edu Python first, now going back to do the "big" CS50. Spending a lot of time thinking, "This would be SO much easier in Python than C...." Also, entering forgotten semicolons....
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- Scorching take, love it
- Author copy fresh out of the box! I'm shaking! @uofmpress.bsky.social made the publication process so smooth! And huge thanks for hosting an open access version, which will be available on my official publication date: August 5. But if you'd rather buy a hard copy, use code UMWEB30 for 30% off!
- Huge congrats!!!
- Look what just landed on my doorstep, the Rutledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature with my Water Margin entry!
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- Paul Fry’s intro to literary theory is so good, highly recommended
- “Is it such a stretch to imagine remix culture coming to reading? Which of the many versions of New Order’s ‘Blue Monday’ is the real one?” Oh man, do I have a book about early modern Chinese fiction for you!
- Download a copy of my book, it's free! (And you probably want the 12” version of “Blue Monday” on Substance)
- Next they will be talking about the Decline of Western Civilization
- “The Fulbright Program's mission is to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.” — Senator J. William Fulbright
- Imre Galambos talking to Joachim Gentz about oracle bones as objects, a good one!
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- Car GPS is accurate, iPhone on its own is accurate, but for some reason it occasionally goes crazy when connected to CarPlay.
- I just want CarPlay to be able to show my location on the map accurately. Until then, not looking forward to Ultra or any other new features.
- Bob Mould (!) gave a commencement address at his alma mater, Macalester College
- The proposed federal budget cancels international education and foreign language studies funding completely
- "This is a huge win for Arizona, as it’s the state’s first nonstop regularly scheduled link to Asia."
- “In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A community. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment.” -Maxine Hong Kingston (from the book she wrote from scratch after her home burnt down and she lost all her drafts in the Oakland forest fires of 1991)
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- Increasingly interested in Japan for similar reasons
