My new book is open-access! Now available at the most reasonable price imaginable. Relevant to folks interested in histories of border-making, the environment, Japanese Empire, Korea and China, etc. Many thanks to all who helped make this possible!.

RT @DrAreumJeong: THE BOOK COVER IS HERE AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH 🥹💚.

Stories like this reminds me why I love being a historian. You can feel @tsmullaney 's passion for what is far more than just machines and technology, but human struggles, aspirations, and dreams. Feel so lucky to have studied with him @Stanfordhistory

RT @StanfordHistory: #HistoryMatters Prof. @tsmullaney's work on Chinese typewriters & his quest to bring a MingKwai to @StanfordLibs featu….

Historians of Twitter/X: I am putting together a syllabus for a graduate/upper undergraduate seminar this fall on "Animal Histories," and would love your help putting together a chronologically/geographically/thematically diverse set of readings. Self-promotion also welcome!

RT @hirako13: I am thrilled to share that my book, Mao’s Steelworks, has been awarded the 2025 Reid Prize (given for “the most significant….

And since no one has time to read an article, here's a Youtube video!

As my work discusses, Korea's tigers could be whimsical folklore figures tormented by clever rabbits or magpies, but they were also exterminated by the 20th century. And this even as they started becoming national symbols of anti-colonial resistance.

I have yet to see the global pop-culture phenomenon that is "Kpop Demon Hunters," but as someone who has written about Korean tiger history, I love seeing images of the Korean folk art-inspired "Derpy Tiger."

RT @HistorianDiary: Osiris’ latest issue: “Animal Mobilities”.

The ghosts of Korea's early 20th century history in the urban art of modern Seoul

More than just an airport stop before Seoul, Incheon is such a fascinating place architecturally and historically, especially around the old treaty port area. As a historian of modern Korea I've talked about this port so many times, but embarrassingly this was my first time here!

First time in mainland China since the pandemic. Last week friends at Tsinghua University kindly invited me to present about my book. Audience was great and asked sharp questions. Tsinghua is also a lovely campus with a main quad that reminds me a lot of UVA.

RT @AASAsianStudies: Call for applications — there's 1 week left for emerging scholars of Korea to apply for the National Committee on Amer….

Not in Tokyo for very long, but it's strangely nostalgic to be eating katsu curry at the National Diet Library again for the first time in years.

RT @GBrazinsky: Available from @cambridgeUP in January 2026!

RT @EnvHistJournal: Ahead of new print alert! You can now read Richard Yu-Cheng Shih's "Reeds, Snails, and Parasites: Schistosomiasis and W….

First time ever at UCLA! Look forward to presenting about my book tomorrow at the Center for Korean Studies: .

New review just dropped! "Border of Water and Ice is a fascinating, richly researched, and accessibly recounted history that will appeal to a wide range of scholars variously interested in empires, environments, borderlands, and area studies"

Some of these White Russian tiger hunters were quite prolific. George Yankovsky ran a hunting lodge on the Manchurian-Korean border and, as the image below shows, killed plenty of tigers and ran a thriving business while the area was under Japanese rule

The image seems to be the same animal depicted in a 1938 Japanese documentary on "Hunting in Eastern Manchuria," as the still below shows. As the documentary depicts, Japanese hunters were actually reliant on the career expertise of White Russian hunters in the region.