Dan Knorr
@dknorr.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of East Asian history at Illinois State University. Research focuses on urban China, place, empire, and state-making during the Qing (1636–1912).
E (7) to D (4): One of the things I’m most thankful for is my family. And you’re part of my family.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
E (7) to D (4): One of the things I’m most thankful for is my family. And you’re part of my family.
Personnel Management and Political Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century China - myself, Amy Gordanier, and Hou Yueran presenting, with David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social offering comments. 10:30 am on Saturday 3/14.
The #AAS2026 preliminary conference program is online ... start browsing the nearly *600 sessions*, planning your schedule, and seeing all that our gathering in Vancouver has to offer!
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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Personnel Management and Political Reform in Early Nineteenth-Century China - myself, Amy Gordanier, and Hou Yueran presenting, with David Porter @dcporter.bsky.social offering comments. 10:30 am on Saturday 3/14.
My object lesson for Cambridge students when demonstrating the importance of adhesion when writing a comparative essay.
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My object lesson for Cambridge students when demonstrating the importance of adhesion when writing a comparative essay.
Invulnerability rituals!
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Invulnerability rituals!
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Historians here: Anyone up for joining a panel on early modern translation practices in science and medicine with me and the wonderful Sare Arıcanlı? It’ll be for the 2026 ESHS–HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh. Let me know!
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
What a time to be working on Qing salt merchants...
This is obviously illegal. It is also very stupid. An unconstrained executive will quickly learn that the best way to pay for the government is to call together all of the billionaires and ask them who wants to demonstrate their patriotism the most
Donor Who Gave $130 Million to Pay Troops Is Reclusive Heir to Mellon Fortune
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October 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What a time to be working on Qing salt merchants...
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@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Why Trump would be perfect for an honorary U-M doctoral degree
Awarding Trump an honorary doctoral degree would be an opportunity to recognize the long way the University has walked in less than two years. U-M juniors may still remember times when the campus code...
www.michigandaily.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
@umich.edu faculty call for an honorary degree for Trump
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
“We have proven that we have no hard moral principles and no hill on which we will die.”
www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...
Subheaders are the new m-dash.
October 22, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Subheaders are the new m-dash.
Very disappointed to realize that Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's restraurant 1587 Prime is an homage to neither mathematics nor late Ming history.
October 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Very disappointed to realize that Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce's restraurant 1587 Prime is an homage to neither mathematics nor late Ming history.
Onto unit three of History of East Asia: Brave Neo-Confucian Worlds.
October 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Onto unit three of History of East Asia: Brave Neo-Confucian Worlds.
Qing documents hypothesis: the enjoyment derived from reading an imperial edict is directly proportional to the number of rhetorical questions it contains.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Qing documents hypothesis: the enjoyment derived from reading an imperial edict is directly proportional to the number of rhetorical questions it contains.
When you've decided this will be the morning you start drafting this section, but you've also arranged for tree work to happen right outside your office window.
elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a brown wall and says welp .
Alt: Elmo from Sesame Street is standing in front of a brown wall and says welp while shrugging his shoulders.
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
When you've decided this will be the morning you start drafting this section, but you've also arranged for tree work to happen right outside your office window.
If a censor was demoted four ranks but left in post, does that mean his reports would/should be taken more or less seriously?
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If a censor was demoted four ranks but left in post, does that mean his reports would/should be taken more or less seriously?
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British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...
doi.org
October 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Given their strong inclination to bolster (certain kinds of) executive power, calling the Court’s majority “conservative” seems imprecise. Maybe better to call them Tories.
September 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Given their strong inclination to bolster (certain kinds of) executive power, calling the Court’s majority “conservative” seems imprecise. Maybe better to call them Tories.
I was just thinking to myself: I love those throwback creamsicle kits. But man, the Bucs got good *right* when they changed.
What. Is. Going. On?
RE blocked field goals.
RE blocked field goals.
September 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I was just thinking to myself: I love those throwback creamsicle kits. But man, the Bucs got good *right* when they changed.
What. Is. Going. On?
RE blocked field goals.
RE blocked field goals.
September 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
What. Is. Going. On?
RE blocked field goals.
RE blocked field goals.
What kind of bag, though?
Guys like this are almost always crooks in addition to be degenerates and abusers. Yet another reason for the opposition to remind everyone. No one stays in power forever. The time will come.
Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.
September 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
What kind of bag, though?
So what are we thinking, a 70-30 balance?
Trump: "When 97% of the stories are bad about a person, that's no longer free speech."
September 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So what are we thinking, a 70-30 balance?
All roads lead to Yongzheng fiscal reforms.
September 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
All roads lead to Yongzheng fiscal reforms.
What is the scope of the boycott we will all be observing against Texas A&M?
September 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
What is the scope of the boycott we will all be observing against Texas A&M?
From Jiaqing to Jiang Qing is an underrated periodization.
September 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
From Jiaqing to Jiang Qing is an underrated periodization.
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Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.
September 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Know your rights, Illinois.
Stay safe and stay informed.
Stay safe and stay informed.