Great to get an ARC of this excellent forthcoming book www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067... co-edited by my colleague @emilybaum.bsky.social & @albertmwu.bsky.social, heard stimulating early versions of some chapters at a UCI conference, includes a valuable epilogue by @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social

The new episode of our 开门见山 podcast is out! In the wake of the adoption of the new 'ethnic unity law', @yangyangcheng.bsky.social speaks with @dbyler.bsky.social and @rianthum.bsky.social on centuries of Islamic life in China, the repression in Xinjiang, and how identities survive state violence.

Waiting to see from photos taken in the wild by friends of where my very short chatty primer on China that came out in Europe & Asia yesterday (with a Foreword by Rana Mitter & a fun cover) is on bookshelves but meanwhile learned from the web that one place stocking it is at a bookstore in Devon

👇 Published today, well by now published yesterday in the places it came out, but it's still March 24 in California so I'll use that as an excuse to share this fun image (please DO judge this book by its cover) cc @wmarybeard.bsky.social @ianrankin1.bsky.social @indexoncensorship.org

Out today in the UK buijones.com/books/everyt... … cc @uselesstree.bsky.social @fromtga.bsky.social (should be available at Blackwell’s on Broad Street ) @prashantrao.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social (and some London bookstores too)

👇 Out tomorrow in Europe Asia

Last March, I wrote for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social about a powerful, very well crafted book on Burma, that’s about travels before the coup but helps us understand Burma’s present lareviewofbooks.org/article/hope... —I thought it was a book that deserved to be more widely known & still think that

I’ll have a chatty very short primer on China in the Xi era out Tuesday in Europe & Asia (though not the U.S., hope to have a separate North American edition eventually), would love a photo if any friend sees it in a bookstore somewhere like London or Singapore www.waterstones.com/book/everyth...

👇 @craigclunas.bsky.social @amiefr.bsky.social @eicathomefinn.bsky.social @billcallahan.bsky.social @shibanim.bsky.social @myetcetera.bsky.social

I’ll have a chatty very short primer on China in the Xi era out Tuesday in Europe & Asia (though not the U.S., hope to have a separate North American edition eventually), would love a photo if any friend sees it in a bookstore somewhere like London or Singapore www.waterstones.com/book/everyth...

It was great to catch up w/ @louisalim.bsky.social (a talented writer & friend) after a long time (first meet up since 2019) at the @asianstudies.org meetings & she was nice enough to snap this phot of me showing off an advance copy of my tiny book that comes Tuesday everywhere except North America

Also, the piece starts with a reflection on the Hong Kong Museum of history, but it was published before the museum reopened. It pairs really nicely, then, with this piece by @jwassers.bsky.social which covers the museum as it looks like today. asia.nikkei.com/opinion/beij...

Matcha was very excited to receive my hard copy of the Sage Handbook of Interpreting Chinese History, with my essay on historical memory in Hong Kong! You can order the book here: us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/th...

Out a week from tomorrow in the UK, Asia, & other places (just not North America, though hope to have a special N. American edition to follow). My very very short new primer on China in the era of Xi Jinping buijones.com/books/everyt... (w/Intro by Mitter & blurbs by Branigan, Moser, Yu, & Mallet)

Out a week from tomorrow in the UK, Asia, & other places (just not North America, though hope to have a special N. American edition to follow). My very very short new primer on China in the era of Xi Jinping buijones.com/books/everyt... (w/Intro by Mitter & blurbs by Branigan, Moser, Yu, & Mallet)

2/ My first book, “Territorial Natures: Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question,” is coming out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social this August 2026. You can find it here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Photo from a London friend, first copy of my VERY little new book (primer on China in the Xi Era), out March 24 in Europe/Asia/Australia only (hoping to have a North American edition in the future), nice blurbs by @taniabranigan.bsky.social @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social Victor Mallet & Cindy Yu

The essay reviews Tahir Hamut Izgil's "Waiting to be Arrested at Night" (tr. @jlfreeman.bsky.social freeman.bsky.social) and "The Backstreets" by Perhat Tursun (tr. @dbyler.bsky.social r.bsky.social). If you haven't read them, please do! The essay can be found here 👇

Thrilled that my essay, "Fear and Writing in Xinjiang," was chosen by the editors of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social to be included in their 15th Anniversary Anthology! Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and @bspivey.bsky.social for commissioning the piece and for their editorial work!

Just arrived SFO, speaking on my Milk Tea Alliance book at Berkeley at 5pm (Dwinelle Hall 370), on to Vancouver tomorrow, part of this UBC event Thursday afternoon sppga.ubc.ca/events/event... (& AAS panel on dystopia on Saturday 8:30am)

I'll be in Vancouver March 11-14, part of a UBC event on Thursday (with @wjhurst.bsky.social Lynette Ong & Taomu Zhou) sppga.ubc.ca/events/event... ) & on Sat at 8:30 an @asianstudies.org roundtable about dystopia w @louisalim.bsky.social @turtelista.bsky.social Bill Callahan & Adam Brookes

👇 @fromtga.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @yilingliu95.bsky.social

👇 Endorsements for my little primer ( details here www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Jeff... ) that Bui Jones Books is bringing out soon in various parts of the world (not U.S., hope to have word soon about a separate North American edition); delighted by the range of blurbers and what they write

👇 Endorsements for my little primer ( details here www.tgjonesonline.co.uk/Product/Jeff... ) that Bui Jones Books is bringing out soon in various parts of the world (not U.S., hope to have word soon about a separate North American edition); delighted by the range of blurbers and what they write

Photo from a London friend, first copy of my VERY little new book (primer on China in the Xi Era), out March 24 in Europe/Asia/Australia only (hoping to have a North American edition in the future), nice blurbs by @taniabranigan.bsky.social @davidmoserbeijing.bsky.social Victor Mallet & Cindy Yu

Heading up the west coast next week, speaking at Berkeley March 10th ( events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/... ), in Vancouver March 11-14, for @asianstudies.org meetings, going to UBC eve of the 11th (to watch Helen Siu's film) & during the day on the 12th (for this www.linkedin.com/posts/kaiost... )

Big @madeinchinajournal.com essay by @tristangbrown.bsky.social on China's "archeological state," in which the Party-state uses the excavation and display of artifacts to bolster its claims to civilizational and historical continuity.

|| NEW CALL FOR PAPERS || To mark the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, we are planning an issue on memories and lessons from the Mao era. We invite contributions revisiting overlooked experiences, questioning established interpretations, or reflecting on what Maoist China can teach us today.

New event! 📆10th March 🕔5pm At Berkeley in Dwinelle Hall 370 @jwassers.bsky.social gives talk "Symbols and Songs in East and Southeast Asian Youth Movements" Or how memes, music & pop culture brought the #MilkTeaAlliance together* 😁 Details: events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...

My latest, @asia.nikkei.com co-write on a key difference between the official handling of Beijing's 1989 & Hong Kong's 2019 in today's PRC (w/a focus on a National Security Law exhibit in Hong Kong's Museum of History) asia.nikkei.com/opinion/beij... cc @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social @historians.org

One week from today, Dwinelle Hall 370, the building where I first studied the history of the symbolism of struggles as a history grad student in the 1980s, 5pm start, March 10 events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/... — cc @nilsgilman.bsky.social

"In our digital age, as completely erasing memory seems less and less feasible, an increasingly attractive solution for autocrats is to proactively refashion narratives in a brazen way that suits the state's objectives." Victoria Jones & @jwassers.bsky.social on history in Hong Kong (and the US).

My latest in the LARB: how the hukou and gaokao systems converge.

Independent bookstores in China differentiate themselves from the state-owned Xinhua Bookstore& other privately owned shops through an emphasis on the free exchange of ideas. We're seeking reviewers to engage with this book. If interested,pls email [email protected]. cup.columbia.edu/book/cultura...

One week from today, Dwinelle Hall 370, the building where I first studied the history of the symbolism of struggles as a history grad student in the 1980s, 5pm start, March 10 events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/... — cc @nilsgilman.bsky.social

My latest, @asia.nikkei.com co-write on a key difference between the official handling of Beijing's 1989 & Hong Kong's 2019 in today's PRC (w/a focus on a National Security Law exhibit in Hong Kong's Museum of History) asia.nikkei.com/opinion/beij... cc @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social @historians.org

Beijing spins its narrative of history in today's Hong Kong https://asia.nikkei.com/opinion/beijing-spins-its-narrative-of-history-in-today-s-hong-kong

My latest, co-written with Victoria Jones of LSE

March 11, 5:15 pm GMT: @soasuni.bsky.social hosts an in-person book launch for @woeser.bsky.social ’s Ocean, as Much as Rain, featuring Fiona Sze-Lorrain and Dechen Pemba, who edited and translated the book. Khalili Lecture Theatre, Torrington Square, London:

I was hesitant to do book promo during this awful moment but if you're looking for context on US policy toward Iran, please check out my book.

If you are in the Berkeley area & interested in The Milk Tea Alliance (or curious to learn what it is & what it has to do with the Umbrella Movement & The Hunger Games), I’ll be up there to give a talk you might want to catch March 10.

Due out in many markets 24 March (but not North America, stay tuned for word on a future US/Canada edition), my very very short book on the PRC in the Xi era--deeply grateful to Minh Bui Jones for many things, Rana Mitter for his Intro, & Tania B, Cindy Y, David M & Victor M for the blurbs

👇 Details on my March 10 Berkeley talk events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...

If you are in the Berkeley area & interested in The Milk Tea Alliance (or curious to learn what it is & what it has to do with the Umbrella Movement & The Hunger Games), I’ll be up there to give a talk you might want to catch March 10.

Due out in many markets 24 March (but not North America, stay tuned for word on a future US/Canada edition), my very very short book on the PRC in the Xi era--deeply grateful to Minh Bui Jones for many things, Rana Mitter for his Intro, & Tania B, Cindy Y, David M & Victor M for the blurbs

What can protest movements learn from one other? In our latest issue, we chat to Jeffrey Wasserstrom about his new book exploring the Milk Tea Alliance and the power of international solidarity between protestors in #HongKong, #Myanmar & #Thailand ⬇️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW EPISODE: This week, Jessie Lau speaks to Yi-Ling Liu, a writer covering technology and Chinese society, about her debut book “The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet”: nuvoices.com/2026/02/18/n...

"In addition, there are ways in which Kafka more than Orwell speaks to a key element of life in both the Mao era and what has followed: the ease with which one can be trapped in or simply confused by a complicated, irrational and hard to navigate bureaucracy."

Kate Brown has a new book out (always a good thing) wwnorton.com/books/978132... --and there's a wide-ranging discussion of it, her past writing, & the innovative section of the AHR she's spearheaded in this @publicbooks.bsky.social Q&A with her www.publicbooks.org/recover-repl... cc @historians.org

An interview w/Kate Brown (one of the historians on my "try to read everything they write list") about her beautiful just published @wwnorton.com book Tiny Gardens Everywhere wwnorton.com/books/978132... & her earlier books & winding road to writing this one www.publicbooks.org/recover-repl...