@drchrisharding

Historian & broadcaster @EdinburghUni Mainly now here 👉 https://xitter.cf/t.co/t96Mm6Qghq Writings/podcast/video 👉 https://xitter.cf/t.co/GULrHnYZoj

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Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing. Recording Japan’s disabled lives | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

Recording Japan's disabled lives

Ten years after the Sagamihara killings, the worst act of violence against disabled people in modern history, Japan's attitudes to disability are slowly changing.

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For all its elevated sense of history and institutional self-worth, the modern British civil service owes its origins, in part, to China. Britain’s modern civil service: an idea borrowed from China | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/notebook…

Britain’s modern civil service: an idea borrowed from China

For all its elevated sense of history and institutional self-worth, the modern British civil service owes its origins, in part, to China.

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Japan’s leap from isolation to “miracle nation” is messier than nostalgia allows. Opening with Japan’s encounter with Western power, our podcast of the week surveys the long history of the nation’s modernization. With @drchrisharding on @smartcookiespod buff.ly/py4RL6g
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🚨🚨Takaichi Sanae becomes the new LDP president, the first woman in the party’s history to hold the post.
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Everyone’s favourite Japanese literary rebel is back. @drchrisharding reads Murakami’s newest book: 👇buff.ly/40QUlCr
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When Edo became Tokyo | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/essays/w…

When Edo became Tokyo

As the ancient city of Edo evolved into Tokyo, Japan's capital, much was lost but a great deal was gained. For better and for worse, Japan’s emergence as Asia’s first modern power was plotted here.

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Modi’s strategy is to leverage India’s spiritual wealth abroad as a soft power asset. Read @drchrisharding on the politics of yoga:👇buff.ly/4dVqix9
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The worlds of the Japanese woodblock | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

The worlds of the Japanese woodblock

A Japanese family’s mastery of the woodblock print captured generations of history in simple yet evocative masterpieces.

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Why do Modi and Xi Jinping care so much about Buddhist reincarnation? Read @drchrisharding on the geopolitics of the Dalai Lama’s succession plan:👇 buff.ly/4dknGIJ
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Japan's time of monsters | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/essays/j…

Japan's time of monsters

Godzilla has become an enduring allegory for Japan's complex post-war history, from the horrors of Hiroshima to economic miracles and environmental disasters.

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Is there a case for decolonising the philosophy curriculum? @drchrisharding thinks so: 👇buff.ly/3KMQjSx
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Japan’s genius for crafts | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/reviews/…

Japan's genius for crafts

The early 20th-century 'Mingei' movement, inspired by the philosopher and critic Yanagi Sōetsu, set the tone for contemporary Japan's pride in craftsmanship and design. It is a story that goes back...

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For @BBCRadio4, @drchrisharding explores Robert Pirsig's 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'. Chris's latest book, THE LIGHT OF ASIA, is out now, published by @AllenLaneBooks 📻 Radio 4, 20:00, 18 May 🌐 After broadcast, on bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001zfq… or @BBCSounds

BBC Radio 4 - Archive on 4, Turning 50: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Christopher Harding journeys through the legacy of Robert Pirsig's cult classic.

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The psychedelic renaissance | @drchrisharding engelsbergideas.com/essays/t…
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Happy nowruz to all those celebrating!
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We look ahead to Persian New Year hearing about research into music , poetry and history from @ide_haghi & @ritorneropoeta @UofGlasgow / Sussan Babaie @TheCourtauld + @michelleassay w/ @drchrisharding Listen 10pm 📻@BBCRadio3 or here 🎧bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0hj488…

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Images of Persia

Poetry by Hafez, Nowruz (New Year) and the Haft Sin table, the Mongol invasion, music

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Japan has had a vexed relationship with Jesus ever since European missionaries arrived on its shores... 🔓 With the new adaptation of #Shogun starting today, @drchrisharding’s article from last year is now free to read for the next 7 days at buff.ly/3T9x1LX
A Jesuit priest and two Japanese Christians greet the captain of a Portuguese ship in Nagasaki, c. 1600-1625.

ALT A Jesuit priest and two Japanese Christians greet the captain of a Portuguese ship in Nagasaki, c. 1600-1625.

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'bubbling with critical energy, sharply observed insight and welcome touches of humour' A great review of @drchrisharding's new book THE LIGHT OF ASIA in @The_Tablet thetablet.co.uk/books/10/240…
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Looking forward to discussing @drchrisharding 's new book The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East with him at Daunts Marylebone on Wednesday - tickets here: dauntbooks.co.uk/shop/events…
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‘From [Alan] Watts, we learn that desire may be the royal road to truly experiencing reality as gift, of the most recklessly generous kind.’ How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself @drchrisharding bit.ly/3OfL0gs

How Alan Watts re-imagined religion, desire and life itself | Aeon Essays

Alan Watts, for all his faults, was a wildly imaginative and provocative thinker who reimagined religion in a secular age

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