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Emily Matson, PhD
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Emily Matson, PhD
@DrEmilyMatson
@PennUSChina fellow | @cfr_org term member | @guhistory @ElliottSchoolGW | @uva_history PhD, @Uva_EAC | 东北、历史记忆 | 普通话, español
- One of the best books on Manchuria I’ve read to date! Excited to introduce my students to this book on the courses I’m teaching next semester at Georgetown on Manchuria and nationalism in East Asia.
- One of my students taught me a very useful Chinese idiom today: 近墨者黑，近朱者赤。The idea that you are a product of your environment - lit. if you work with ink, you'll be stained black; if you handle cinnabar, you will be stained red. This phrase is all too applicable.
- Today I successfully defended my dissertation and became Dr. Matson! So thankful for these past six years and everyone who has helped me along the way. #PhDone #phdlife #Graduation2020 #gradschool
- Excited to announce that I will be an Assistant Teaching Professor for the '23-'24 academic year at Georgetown University in @georgetownsfs and @GeorgetownColl , teaching courses in modern Chinese history!
- Rereading Lu Xun yet again, and he is still the goat. For my class, I’ve assigned “Diary of a Madman,” “The Real Story of Ah-Q,” and “New Year’s Sacrifice,” among others. I still remember the impact these stories had on me when I first read them as an undergrad.
- So a student just contested his grade with me on an assignment. He got…a 95.
- Excited to share my article, "Complicity and Cold War Politics: The Long Shadow of Unit 731 in Sino-US Relations." Thanks to JAEAR for publishing my piece as part of this special issue on "Legacies of WWII and the Cold War in US-East Asia Relations"! brill.com/view/journals/…
- From my talk today on Unit 731 and the postwar US complicity in pardoning many of the scientists involved, including Ishii. Here, I talk about the historiography of Unit 731 in the US in the 1990s.
- Successful research talk at Georgetown today on “Memorializing the Mukden Incident”!
- The importance of the narrative of Manchurian resistance to the CCP’s legitimizing narrative has only grown in the years since this book was published. A compelling read that complicates the historical relationship between resistance, collaboration, and nationalism.
- Honored and so excited to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a Stephen M. Kellen term member! Thanks so much to my nominator and recommenders for their support and encouragement through the process. @CFR_org
