"Although many #Hongkongers have found greater freedom in the #UK, the struggle to preserve their mother tongue continues. 'Either staying in #HongKong or...in the UK, they face the marginalisation of their culture,' Wong says. 'That really hits me personally'." www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Neither fully accepted nor entirely apart, the descendants of foreigners in China embody the tensions of identity in a globalised yet nationalistic age. Chengzhi Zhang traces their struggles for belonging and what this reveals about the boundaries of Chineseness.

How do the socio-political dynamics of #Islamophobia 🕌 on #China's social media help establish boundaries of Chinese #national identity? @davidstroup.bsky.social will address this issue at the upcoming Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 29 September at 15:00 CET: www.remote-xuar.com/events/loath...

Excellent work from my PhD student in @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/09/17/q...

MAN>LHR>YVR for #APSA2025. Give me a shout if you’re in Vancouver!

I wanna point out that even though china isn’t democratic Xi has basically tossed the succession system the party previously used and is just gonna be there indefinitely

Glad to get my hands on a copy of this excellent volume from David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown. Excellent comprehensive introduction to identity and politics in Xinjiang .

Really pleased to get my hands on this amazing retro shirt which arrived yesterday from Shandong Luneng Taishan FC (who I used to go see play when I lived in Jinan).

Today Indian police personnel detain Tibetan Youth Congress activists as they took part in a protest against the Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to India, outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi, India (Photo's via @mizzimadailynews.substack.com)

Vital research from @drdavidtobin.bsky.social and @nyrolaelima.bsky.social on transnational repression of Uyghurs and what measures can be taken to guard against it. It’s a sobering reminder that human rights abuses don’t end at national boundaries.

A deranged convicted felon who wants to distract from his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein is lying about Washington, DC, which tallied a 30-year low in violent crime last year. It’s important to keep speaking the truth and not permit this pathological liar to control the narrative.

21 years later and this reads almost like prophecy.

2004. "The dynamics of penetration and resistance between the centre and what still remains an indigenous periphery can be expected to generate at the same time both increased sinicization and increased ethno-national unrest." www.jstor.org/stable/20192...

Teaching on nationalism, regime type, authoritarian institutions, social movements or area studies this year? Check out the CPCS Reading List, updated for Aug. 2025, containing articles from @cpcs.bsky.social from 2015-2025 categorized by region and by thematic area. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

August has always felt like late Sunday afternoon.

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In June 2025, academics and civil society organisations met in London for an International Network for Critical China Studies workshop to analyse how to prevent transnational repression. Governments & NGOs have not paid enough attention to TNR and need to do much more to protect people's rights.

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

I have some bad news…

12 centrist candidates in Macau's Legislative Assembly election have been disqualified by the Committee for Safeguarding National Security because the candidates will "neither uphold…" nor bear allegiance" to Macau & its constitution. The decision cannot be challenged or appealed.

🧵of the kind of thing that happens in Hong Kong to "yellow" (pro-democracy) folks who endeavour to keep people informed about what's happening here. (In a post on this thread, Razven notes that it's reportedly been going on since as far back as 2014 -- the year that the Umbrella Movement began.)

In retrospect this feels like the logical conclusion when you remember a lot of surveillance state in XJ was set up under the excuse of China’s War On Terror which - surprise! - was a copycat of the US War on Terror

All Hong Kong taxis will be required to install in-car cameras with audio recording capabilities by early 2027. In full: buff.ly/pZnWVzF

The leap from this to the systems Chinese police use for social engineering in Xinjiang and Tibet is exceedingly small

Deeply deeply problematic shit going on here. This is why so many people said that proscribing Palestine Action was a massive overstep & was a direct attack on freedom of speech & expression.

Marco Rubio I hate you so much

This story is from a few years ago, but it highlights how China drew from the US War on Terror to justify the imprisonment of Uyghurs, and then it came full circle for these men that were imprisoned in Guantanamo at the hands of US soldiers. Just awful www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

This was basically the concept of the IRA and welp now instead the opposite is happening

More than 80 starving people killed while trying to access food www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Was pleased to write this review of the second edition of @jwassers.bsky.social’s “Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong,” published in January. It’s a great book that’s only gained importance since its first publication in 2020. Read the review online here: chajournal.blog/2025/07/11/v...

Yep.

The new subversion charge alleges that Chan incited others to “organise, plan, commit or participate in… overthrowing the body of central power of the People’s Republic of China or the body of power of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.” By ... [checks notes] ... shitposting on Twitter?

Congrats to our colleagues Andreja Zevnik, @tonihaastrup.bsky.social & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social for winning the BISA 2025 EDI Prize Their Decolonial Praxis project is transforming how we think about equity, knowledge & collaboration in international studies 🔗Read more below:

Absurd. www.smh.com.au/world...

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in Los Angeles and California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Some early takes painted Trump’s tariffs as strategic reindustrialisation. Might be time for a re-read.

"Across China, authorities have been interrogating dozens of writers -- many of them young women -- who published gay erotic novels online, in what appears to be the largest police roundup of its kind to date."

I'm trying hard to think of any other nominal Democrat who would be as thoroughly loathed by Democratic voters as much as Rahm Emanuel.

Someone should tell him why Liberia exists, it will blow his mind.

The United States is seeking to steal the sovereignty of Brazil, there's really no other way to describe this. It's an effort to overthrow their domestic political institutions.

The ideological capture of the judiciary is underreported. This should be cause to ring all the alarm bells.

Just staggeringly racist behavior. Unsurprising but still absolutely infuriating.

"Abolish ICE" is one of those slogans that was ridiculed as hopelessly naive by centrist liberal types. Now the future of American democracy (such as it is) depends on it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

No country should be deporting people to Myanmar. Folks from Myanmar need to be granted refuge not handed into the arms murderous Junta.

If you don't think Alligator Alcatraz qualifies as a concentration camp, at least call it an internment camp

July 4th reminder: "obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners" was one of the things Americans fought against in our Revolution.

I always say I love my country the way Anthony Bourdain did, not as a benevolent state or one founded in innocence but as vast, beautiful place full of discrete people and cultures such as has rarely been attempted and worth fighting for.

i can't even imagine the freakout if like mamdani or ilhan omar had ever refered to lenders as "shylocks." but unlike them, trump actually has a very long history of making disparaging remarks about jews

Of course not. White people don’t have to answer for other white people and Republicans never even have to answer for their own president.

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