Alex Burchmore
@alexburchmore.bsky.social
Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Pinned
Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you:
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
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My book on design and consumerism - featuring critical accounts of Apple, IKEA, Nike, Zara and more. Learn how they seduce and distract you. Marxist and woke! You'll never shop again...
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
My book on design and consumerism - featuring critical accounts of Apple, IKEA, Nike, Zara and more. Learn how they seduce and distract you. Marxist and woke! You'll never shop again...
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It's Chinese Don Quixote in 1930s Shanghai! What happens when a gullible dupe reads too much kungfu fiction and decides he can save the nation? The Pidgin Warrior by Zhang Tianyi is what happens. I was lucky enough to translate it.
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The Pidgin Warrior
Check out The Pidgin Warrior - <p>In the 1930s, wartime Shanghai is a cosmopolitan metropolis where conmen and dance-hall girls mingle with refugees streaming in from the occupied areas.<br /> <br /> ...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
It's Chinese Don Quixote in 1930s Shanghai! What happens when a gullible dupe reads too much kungfu fiction and decides he can save the nation? The Pidgin Warrior by Zhang Tianyi is what happens. I was lucky enough to translate it.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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This won an award and it just came out in paperback! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Fashion Victims
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period This award-winning bo...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
This won an award and it just came out in paperback! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 27, 2025 at 3:40 AM
If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
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Paperback for under $30 - a bargain! 😏
www.bloomsbury.com/us/analysing...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/analysing...
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Paperback for under $30 - a bargain! 😏
www.bloomsbury.com/us/analysing...
www.bloomsbury.com/us/analysing...
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Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
November 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Hello! Here is my critical microhistory of modern Arctic exploration. You can now pre-order a paperback copy for $32 CDN during @ubcpress.bsky.social’s winter sale. Also available in hardcover, ebook and PDF! ❄️❄️❄️
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
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The paperback of my book on a fascinating USA-funded Cold War exhibition of Italian art and design is on sale for the American holiday.
www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Ame...
www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Ame...
November 27, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The paperback of my book on a fascinating USA-funded Cold War exhibition of Italian art and design is on sale for the American holiday.
www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Ame...
www.routledge.com/Cold-War-Ame...
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My most recent book is A HISTORY OF THE THEATRE COSTUME BUSINESS, currently on sale from the publisher.
November 27, 2025 at 1:28 AM
My most recent book is A HISTORY OF THE THEATRE COSTUME BUSINESS, currently on sale from the publisher.
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My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
Transoceanic Blackface - Northwestern University Press
A sweeping history of racialized performance across the Anglophone imperial world from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century A material history of ra...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
My book Transoceanic Blackface: Empire, Race, Performance is available from Northwestern University Press.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
It maps the global history of blackface, minstrelsy, and related forms of racialized performance such as brownface and yellowface.
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New academic drinking game:
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
New academic drinking game:
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
Reading each other's publications and guessing which sections were added to appease reviewers.
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A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!
My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
A reminder: For the Holidays, your friends and families want books. Buy them books. If you aren't sure which book to get them, buy them more books. People want books!
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Uhhh I didn’t publish a book but I did publish my first research article. It took 2 years and it might as well be a book to me!
Uhhh I didn’t publish a book but I did publish my first research article. It took 2 years and it might as well be a book to me!
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Uhhh I didn’t publish a book but I did publish my first research article. It took 2 years and it might as well be a book to me!
Uhhh I didn’t publish a book but I did publish my first research article. It took 2 years and it might as well be a book to me!
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Given the opportunity for a second edition, I would vastly broaden the examples, downplaying those aligning with my own collecting tendencies. But I'm happy with a lot of the book! It's extremely cheerful! I think Chatwin still has signed & numbered copies available!
Book Collecting Now — Chatwin Books
At a time when we take e-readers to the beach and read novels on our smartphones, is the book-collecting hobby still relevant? Yes, more than ever. Matthew Budman’s illustrated guide gives you ...
www.chatwinbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Given the opportunity for a second edition, I would vastly broaden the examples, downplaying those aligning with my own collecting tendencies. But I'm happy with a lot of the book! It's extremely cheerful! I think Chatwin still has signed & numbered copies available!
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A short tale about a club of women book collectors on New York who made space for themselves when they were not allowed in men's spaces. Featuring Belle da Costa Greene (Morgan Library), Mildred Bliss (Dumbarton Oaks), Rachel Hunt(carnegie mellon) and more.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
November 27, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A short tale about a club of women book collectors on New York who made space for themselves when they were not allowed in men's spaces. Featuring Belle da Costa Greene (Morgan Library), Mildred Bliss (Dumbarton Oaks), Rachel Hunt(carnegie mellon) and more.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
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September 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you:
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you:
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...
MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...
Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
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If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
If you like a writer's work, tell them! Email, LinkedIn message, DM, even in person at an event. It can make a huge difference in their lives, especially right now with declining freelance budgets, layoffs, stagnant salaries, the threat of AI, and dwindling book advances.
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Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Remember: It ys okaye to be lonely. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.
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Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters:
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
doivup.upol.cz: Embodied Entanglements
Ideas on the (human) body, gender, and identity lie at the core of many socio-political issues and cultural trends in Asia today, while also inspiring innovative research on artistic expression from A...
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May 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia. Halina Zawiszová, Giorgio Strafella & Martin Lavička, eds. Open-Access e-book and individual chapters:
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
doi.org/10.5507/ff.2...
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The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m
June 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Robert van Gulik Archive at Leiden University Libraries is now fully described and accessible online: edu.nl/d7p3m
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This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
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July 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...
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Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies
July 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Thrilled to announce a new volume I've co-edited with Benjamin Brose: Inner Worlds: Individuals and Interiority in Chinese Religious Life. It’s out now from Brill and you can find it here: brill.com/edcollbook/t... ✨ #NewBooks #ReligiousStudies #BuddhistStudies
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This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture: Narrative imagination and grassroots storytelling on social media - Guobin Yang, 2025
A notable feature in Chinese digital culture is its playful style. Memes, jokes, parodies, and coded language of all sorts abound on social media. While researc...
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October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is fascinating! Sima Qian is surely making a comeback! People wrote Shiji-style biographies of Li Wenliang during Wuhan lockdown - my piece on this is just out, open-access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years.
#Sinology🀄️📚
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#Sinology🀄️📚
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Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory | Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture | Duke University Press
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My latest publication is now online. "Literary Virtue: A Moral Cornerstone of Chinese Literary Theory." In this essay, Zhou Xinglu 周興陸 of Peking University and I explore the history of the concept of literary virtue (wende 文德) across 2000 years.
#Sinology🀄️📚
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#Sinology🀄️📚
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