Discussion forum in Area: 'Open access book publishing: A forum for debate' Read 5 responses to Matthew Gandy's 2023 commentary on OA book publishing and the neoliberal academy, with a further reflection by Gandy on the issue two years on ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

The latest issue of the @madeinchinajournal.com is out. As always, fully open access. Read and share widely, there are fantastic pieces in here.

We have met regularly since 2023, but we finally are also visibile on the web! We are a group of @lund-university.bsky.social researchers focusing on extractivism. Keep an eye on the webpage for future events! www.keg.lu.se/en/research/...

The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

From the 19th-century gold rushes to the current scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the making of the global capitalist system. Join us in Lund from 16-19 June for the 2025 Global China Summer School. Deadline 14 March, apply here: www.ace.lu.se/article/glob...

Check out this online open lecture by Lizhi Liu as part of the Perspective Asia Lecture Series here at Lund University. It's open to all, just register at the link. www.ace.lu.se/calendar/cli...

Our new module is up! In it, we offer some perspectives on the challenges of doing research in and on China these days, specifically the ways in which various authors have grappled with the ethical and epistemic dimensions of studying China.

The latest issue of Global China Pulse is out! This one delves deep into the online scam industry, and the human trafficking and cyber slavery that accompanies it. As always, it is fully Open Access and free to download. globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

a very klingon festivus

Excellent essay. Data loss is a real concern also for China scholars, incredibly rich sources from the late 1990s, then the 2000s and 2010s gone in the blink of an eye, and who knows who saved what when it was still available.

Vulgarity has a long history in China and three decades of internet development have only amplified its relevance. In this essay in Global China Pulse, Gabriele De Seta describes how different registers of vulgarity overlap across Chinese everyday life and media contexts.

Mycket tal om desinformation i sociala medier just nu. Det är rimligt och viktigt. Men vi ska inte glömma när ett fullständigt medialt simulacrum skapades av myndigheter och respektabla medier om att svenskar var följsamma mot FHM:s smittskyddsråd. Detta var en luftskapelse. Överdriver jag?

This is appalling

This is peak something. I'm not really sure what, but definitely it is peak something...

Honestly, the insanity of the healthcare system and the evilness of the private insurers was a key reason that I decided to leave the USA (where I was born and raised) nearly two decades ago and never think once about returning to live in the country.

Despite its decline in recent years, Songzhuang Art Village on the outskirts of Beijing continues to be one of the most significant art spaces in the world. However, its history remains under-researched and is often misunderstood, writes @gstrafella.bsky.social.

At Chinese restaurants in Nairobi, interactions between Kenyan employees and Chinese customers are often tense, hampered by language barriers. In this essay in Global China Pulse, Amanda Kaminsky recounts an example where pidgin English facilitates fleeting moments of affinity between strangers.

as said many times before, campism is incredibly West-centric bc it's never concerned in the slightest with the agency of non-western peoples, reducing struggles elsewhere and everywhere to a fake anti-imperialist analysis centering US foreign policy

Really very, very grim stuff here. And important to remember that the Swedish pandemic experiment and subsequent refusal to acknowledge what a disaster it was has played a key role in legitimising this kind of thing.

Everyone using a breaking news cycle in a 'far away' place to make a point about whatever thing they are focussed on is another indication that this site is replacing Twitter 🤣

Koreans have fought many times against military dictatorships in pursuit of genuine democracy and have paid a heavy price—in Jeju and Gwangju. Today, we see them again show the power of the people and that it is always through mass action that democracy is enacted as a practice. Solidarity!

‘Northern frontier culture’ has recently become a trendy term in propaganda texts and academic publications in and about Inner Mongolia. In this piece, an anonymous scholar discusses how this discourse ends up marginalising and deterritorialising one group: ethnic Mongols from the region.

“All scientists in the US will face choices. Both history & contemporary experience in authoritarian regimes tells us that many will acquiesce. Some, seeing opportunities for funding & career enhancement, will become cheerleaders for the new regime” Already happening 😢 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Over the past decade, we have published hundreds of essays. Rather than letting this material rest in our archives, we have decided to draw from it to offer a series of ‘modules’ on key topics. Here's the first one, on internationalist activism and solidarity. 1/

“realists of a larger reality”

In Sweden, you know it's almost December when supermarkets prompt you to top up your saffron supply at the register.

In this essay, Xu Peng examines the endurance and adaptation of ethnic armed organisations and militias in Myanmar’s northern Shan State, investigating how these organisations transitioned from the drug trade to the gambling industry and, more recently, online scams.

Come listen to Ida Nafstad, associate professor at Sociology of Law Department, Lund University, talk. "Apartheid Law: The History and Possible Future of Israel's (Military) Legal System" LUX:C126, 2 December 15.00–17.00 Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Agreed. Bhattacharya is not a 'lockdown sceptic'. He is someone who was fundamentally wrong about the fatality rate of covid infection and promoted courses of action that killed a lot of people in the US, India, and around the world.

permanent post in a lovely city👇 Associate Professorship in China Studies with a specialisation in Contemporary Politics in China at University of Aarhus www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV965/a...

The final installment of this term's Perspective Asia Lecture Series is today. It's an online event starting at 18:00 this evening in Sweden, so accessible in different time zones. Registration at the link below. www.ace.lu.se/calendar/mak...

In 'One and All: The Logic of Chinese Sovereignty', Pang Laikwan explores Chinese concepts and structures of sovereignty in the imperial, republican, socialist, and post-socialist periods. Read the conversation with @csorace.bsky.social.

For those in the Lund area, check out this screening of Made in Ethiopia in a couple weeks. I'll be leading a post-screening discussion. kino.nu/made-in-ethi...

It's hard to overstate how grim this is. Bhattacharya and the insane ideology underpinning the Great Barrington Declaration has already cause very literal harm on a mass scale. Imagine the damage he would do in a position of actual power...

I have to say, it's really refreshing to once again have a social media feed that isn't force feeding me bizarre and disturbing content every third post. I hope it works out!

With lots of new people joining Bluesky, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the projects falling under the umbrella of the Global China Lab, a new non-profit we established this year with the aim of advancing open knowledge about China. 1/

In the last four decades, the number of people who were paralyzed by polio was reduced by over 99%. This chart is from my article on why we can be the generation that ends polio forever everywhere: ourworldindata.org/global-fight...

“Although he is an AIDS denialist, an extreme anti-vaxxer who falsely claims vaccines cause autism, & a man who peddles vile racism, antisemitism, & anti-LGBT animus, I feel sure he can totally separate his deeply held beliefs from his actual actions”….is the most gullible take I have ever seen

Really honored to speak with May Chiao at Nature Review Physics on my path from China to US and from particle physics to history of science, how to understand current US-China tensions through a longer, larger context, and how scientists may exercise collective power: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Still not Sweden...

Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...

In this essay in Global China Pulse, Kota Watanabe focuses on the ambiguous character of the Karen Border Guard Force to explore the local power dynamics around the proliferation of transnational organised crime, including online scamming, in the Myanmar–Thailand border area since the late 2010s.

I thought that economist cover looked kinda familiar...

The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants on Thursday for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, for alleged war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

Our latest edition of the Lingua Sinica newsletter is out. Read now, and subscribe. And if you want to support us, consider a paid subscription. linguasinica.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

The month before Chinese New Year is a high time for labor protests, because migrant workers demand overdue wages to support their families during the holiday. In late 2016, there were hundreds of daily events, and a protest wave like this is the last thing the government needs right now. 1/

Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵

A form of matrilocal residence, uxorilocal marriage is often celebrated in the contemporary Chinese online sphere (and beyond) as a sign of female empowerment. In this essay, Zhangluyuan Charlie Yang challenges this narrative by exploring the history of this practice in a district of Hangzhou.

Check out our final Perspective Asia lecture of the term. This one is online and open to all. Registration in the link: www.ace.lu.se/calendar/mak...