“Canadian authorities later obtained their own intercept corroborating the involvement of Indian officials, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s right-hand man, Amit Shah.” would be nice if PMMC could enter phylum chordata & start having a backbone globalnews.ca/news/1151469...

LOL.

Amid many a silly “free speech” panic, here is a genuinely chilling case … Sheffield Hallam professor accuses the institution of negotiating “directly with a foreign intelligence service to trade my academic freedom for access to the Chinese student market” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

Seeing Rivi Handler-Spitz's drawings paired with the words of Chinese graduate students struggling to decide what they should do next is incredibly moving—take some time with this graphic narrative at Inside Higher Ed today.

I'm excited to share that my first monograph, "China's Date Debate: How Manchurian Scholars Rewrote World War II," is available for preorder through the University of Michigan Press, China Understandings Today series! China’s Date Debate press.umich.edu/Books/C/Chin...

Very proud to be able to publish among so many esteemed authors in War & Society. My thanks, also, to @kristenauthor.bsky.social and everyone involved in the editorial and review process!

is translation undervalued in Anglophone academe? In China, translation is considered proper academic outputs, with both formal (e.g. for performance review & promotion) and informal recognition (reputation in wider society). it reflects (and constitutes)

Charlotte Gray on the underfunding of Library and Archives Canada and what lies ahead in its upcoming move. Sigh. #cdnhist #cdnpoli Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5f5c26a...

China is the world’s largest single greenhouse gas emitter, emitting twice as much as the United States. But now there’s been a key shift: China’s greenhouse gas emissions have fallen even as energy demand has gone up. This milestone is "ahead of schedule." from @vox.com via @climatedesk.org

Absolutely grim. He got into a fight with shopkeepers at an electronics market, following a dispute over the agreed price to fix a mobile phone screen. He says he was forced to sign confessions he didn’t understand. Years of hell followed.

A Facebook post unearthed a legend: the lost MingKwai typewriter, designed by Lin Yutang in 1947, resurfaced in a NY basement. Hailed as a marvel yet dismissed as a failure, its rediscovery revives debates over innovation, identity, and what it means to be Chinese, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

Really good video by Donut. 2025 Chevy is 5.5 ft longer & has 5.5 INCHES more cargo space. The Chevy ran over 6 (fake) children. Actual contractors can't afford them. Trucks are larger to get around fuel economy standards & roads are as deadly now as before drunk driving laws were enacted.

Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."

Trump is the gift that keeps on giving for media. Proposed annexation of Canada using “economic coercion,” ie, an illegal, aggressive takeover without citizens’ consent, is framed as “a proposal” to “discuss” and then the inevitable outrage such framing provokes brings this:

I wrote about the early years of my career and the experience of watching your expectations die: open.substack.com/pub/lindseya...

One of those issues where to have the debate is to lose it.

Can’t comprehend how horrific this case and the public trial must’ve been for Mdm Pelicot, but her courage casts light on the crucial question below. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

I was 10 years old on December 6, 1989 and already a feminist. I have attended countless vigils and cried so many tears for the 14 women lost on that day, and the far-to-many thereafter. It’s 2024, and femicide is still a national epidemic.

Lawmakers have barricaded the doors of the National Assembly, where President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to arrive shortly. While Yoon is said to be about to resign, opposition have said they will not let him enter for fear he could use military escort to seize control of the chamber.

Ran out of daylight on the ride back to Luodong yesterday so I had to get a little creative shooting this reinforced concrete World War 2 era airplane hangar. The light source is the high beams on my rental scooter 🔦

An incredibly long time for Mark Swidan…

3 Americans held for years in China have been released, the White House says #China

Am I doing this right? I made a highly incomplete starter pack for feminist reporting and commentary, pretty loosely defined. go.bsky.app/6MA7Mxj

🚨 JOURNO JOB 🚨 The Guardian's China team is hiring a news assistant / researcher to be based in Taipei. Details below! English and Mandarin fluency essential. Applications close at the end of this month.

Ppl making academia account starter packs r my heroes, thank you for the invisible service 🥹 I will try to share relevant starter packs below ⬇️🧵

Here are some book recommendations on the Second Sino-Japanese War/War of Resistance. This is easily the least understood theatre of the Second World War in English and significant gaps continue to exist in the historiography. Still, this thread is not exhaustive. The last post will have "END." 🧵

to counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add. go.bsky.app/wtGV1Q

Here’s a list of Indigenous (to US/Canada) follows on BSky. I’ve added a dozen more people since the first version. Let me know if I missed anybody. go.bsky.app/22LJsC3

Sinologists 🀄️ Starter Pack is there. Join, share, follow each other, and create connections. go.bsky.app/RzD3VSE

more than two dozen digitized canadian newspapers -- including the japanese-canadian "new canadian" -- being de-accessioned (?) from the digital collections of the simon fraser university library due to a change in "hosting platforms." #cdnhist www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

Welcome all. Life in academia is particularly hard right now. Toward a modest improvement, consider sending Kudos Emails. Reach out to a stranger and say you liked their paper. This small mitzvah can make a world of difference. I’ve seen it happen. michaelkaspari.org/2016/05/23/o...

New from me: Daiichi Takeoka was one of the five Asian graduates from the University of Oregon’s law school in 1912. Despite being ineligible for U.S. citizenship under the prevailing naturalization law, Takeoka collaborated with white lawyers to provide legal aid to Oregon’s Japanese community.

“You’re on a plane, looking down at Victoria Harbour & you don’t know if you’re going to see it again." For my first byline for The Hong Konger, I wrote about three Hong Kongers' experiences of migratory grief and Hong Kong And my own