I am thrilled to share that my book, Mao’s Steelworks, has been awarded the 2025 Reid Prize (given for “the most significant book contributing to the understanding of Asia”) by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA).
) for my book, “Making Mao’s Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism.” Thanks to many who have supported me through this process.
Historians should stop our obsession with individual achievements and do more collaborative research. We can make our profession better by working together, not competing with each other. Hence, I'll look for potential co-authors whose surnames start with a letter from I to Z.
I thank so many people for offering valuable advice and support.
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.@hirako13 argues that China’s socialist industrialization was influenced by the global spread of state-directed developmental visions, demonstrating the interconnectedness of capitalism and socialism in the 20th century. Read more in the September issue. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ahr/rhab351/6412607?redirectedFrom=fulltext…
Leiden ranking is a uni ranking purely based on citations
the difference between fields is striking
all fields: pretty much dominated by unis, with Zhejiang overtaking Harvard
physical science & engineering; maths & computer science: absolutely dominated by unis, plus
George Qiao's review of "Uncertainty in the Empire of Routine: The Administrative Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century Qing State" (2022) by Maura Dykstra. It's been a while since I last read a book review that checked primary sources used in the book.
https://bit.ly/45w7bWc