Scott Gregory

名不正，則言不順；言不順，則事不成。

so cool that when Kurosawa made Seven Samurai, he was like, "What if a movie absolutely ripped for three-and-a-half hours straight?"

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The humble Preview app is my go-to but don’t know what to do here, sorry!

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!

Announcement for Ming Studies scholars to apply for funding to attend the AAS2026 Annual Conference in Vancouver, deadline December 18, 2025.

Thanks to generous funding from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation, we are pleased to offer grants of up to $2,000 to support the attendance of Ming Studies scholars at #AAS2026 in Vancouver. Apply by December 18 for this opportunity!

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The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out YouTube video by Hank Green

I would probably just assign this Hank Green video. Bonus: many undergrads will already know who Hank Green is.

Women Writers of Huizhou Redefining space, power, and identity in China's largest internal diasporaIn the late imperial period of China, two major historical forces reshaped cultural...

Another new one! Women Writers of Huizhou by Bin Bin Yang (UW Press)

The Courtesan's Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama Peng Xu’s The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama argues that courtesans of the era played an active role in the theater and their impact manifested in Chinese literary history, albeit conc...

Looking forward to reading this one, Peng Xu’s new book The Courtesan’s Memory, Voice, and Late Ming Drama (U Mich Press)

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:

A variation on Benjamin Franklin’s 1754 engraving in the Pennsylvania Gazette, published in Philadelphia, in an effort to foster cooperation among the various colonies against the tyrant king of Britain, with the American colonies replaced by the nine universities selected for special collaboration opportunities

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

The Microchip Titans | Los Angeles Review of Books Mason Wong reviews three books related to US-China tech industries and global competition.

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?

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:

Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...

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.

Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing The Taiping Civil War (1851–1864) was one of the most destructive wars in Chinese history, with the death toll estimated between twenty and thirty million. What visions did survivors have for restorin...

It's officially my book's publication date! The online open access version is available now, link below. Read online or download the pdf copy I want you to have, all without having to go to some shady website for a pirated copy!

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ambient mix at matcha tea ceremony l login.jp l milcrème l chill performative experimental YouTube video by Login.jp_

Start your weekend with an ambient DJ tea ceremony

Ariel Stilerman - Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan

À paraître en mars aux Harvard UP

James Brown on Letterman `82 (IMPROVED AUDIO) YouTube video by Art Howard

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!

Great setup! Yoyaku record store?

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.

On the bright side, we are spared people pronouncing it as “gee Yahtzee”