Contributors to Engelsberg Ideas share the books they’ve enjoyed in the summers of their lives. engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-sum...

Interesting and unusual job posting, for a historian of computing/technology with aspirations to work in the museum field: computerhistory.org/jobs/oral-hi...

Event today at Irvine on China and writing and publishing with visiting from Shanghai author Jacob Dreyer mailchi.mp/eb69c4eff3a9...

Newsletter of @thewirechina.bsky.social with link to a Q&A with me (glad to see the photo in the center used in as China's June 4th anniversary approaches--a reminder that there was joy in the square before there were tanks in the streets in 1989) www.linkedin.com/pulse/china-...

Online event on Thailand & democracy coming up featuring Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal among others www.prio.org/events/9295 cc @xunlingau.bsky.social @mekongreview.com @jemimahsteinfeld.bsky.social @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social

New event! 📆27th May 🕑4pm Pacific Time Pacific Council holds Webinar "What's Next for U.S.–China Relations?" w/ @jwassers.bsky.social, Anka Lee & more. Details: www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/w...

For those aware of Netiwit's views & previous campaigns it should be no surprise how even in the midst of his own case he show's transnational solidarity in his piece. These two section really highlight it He gives South Korean's who fought hard for Conscientious objection to be recognised props too

Powerful piece by Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thai activist facing charges for conscientious objection in the light of the Constitutional Court ruling conscription legal Mentions those facing conscription in Cambodia & Myanmar, Joshua Wong & other thai friends jailed for fighting for a better future

Extraordinary op ed by Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal www.thaienquirer.com/70052/opinio...

Louisa Lim on the “scar literature” of Hong Kong

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal of Sam Yan Press with a powerful commentary on facing challenges, long odds struggles, and perserverence www.thaienquirer.com/70052/opinio... cc @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social

On May 27, I'll be joining Anka Lee and other insightful people to assess US-China relations in the wake of the summit about to take place, details here, a webinar organized by PCIP, 2pm California time www.pacificcouncil.org/activities/w...

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal of Sam Yan Press with a powerful commentary on facing challenges, long odds struggles, and perserverence www.thaienquirer.com/70052/opinio... cc @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social @marcusrediker.bsky.social

So honored my essay "To Outlive Tyranny" (dissentmagazine.org/article/to-o...) in @dissentmag.bsky.social (Fall'25), has received the 2026 Award for Excellence in Commentary/ Op-ed/ Perspective from the Asian American Journalists Association @aajaofficial.bsky.social: awards.aaja.org/jea2026/exce...

Extraordinary op ed by Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal www.thaienquirer.com/70052/opinio...

Very disappointing news out of Thailand en.thairath.co.th/news/politic...

Ruling on Thailand’s conscription law due in the next 24 hours www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen... (see also www.soas.ac.uk/sites/defaul... )

Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

I can't remember when an issue of @nybooks.com had a TOC that grabbed me the way the latest does: 3 authors who are totally different but all ones I enjoy reading & always learn from: Lynn Hunt, Adam Hochschild, & w/ a stunningly good NYRB debut @louisalim.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I was delighted to get this book by my fellow UCI alum, Xia Shi, in the mail late last week, a natural follow-up to her first book on elite women int he early Republic. Looking forward to more reading time with it in May.

A really thoughtful review; worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Liked this observation: “The case studies demonstrate that care, endurance, and domestic labor can themselves become acts of profound rupture.”

Four books explore Chinese lives in the US from the 19th century to the present, laying bare the shifting boundaries between the citizen and the alien, the criminal and the law. The colour line and class divisions are barriers more formidable than national borders, writes @yangyangcheng.bsky.social.

👇 @xunlingau.bsky.social @hvistendahl.bsky.social @jodemocracy.bsky.social

"What anchors Beckerman’s book, and ultimately what stays with the reader, is its emotional honesty." Sasha Razor on what "How to Be a Dissident" can and can't do for the reader: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-be-dissident-gal-beckerman-resistance-tiananmen-gulag

Sasha Razor on How to Be a Dissident by @galbeckerman.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-... "What anchors Beckerman’s book, and ultimately what stays with the reader, is its emotional honesty." Fascinating discussion of gender & dissent, & naturally glad to see the Milk Tea Alliance part 👇

"'How to Be a Dissident' is a book about moral self-inventory, written by someone honest enough to admit that his own might come up short." Sasha Razor reviews Gal Beckerman's "How to Be a Dissident": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-be-dissident-gal-beckerman-resistance-tiananmen-gulag/

Sasha Razor on How to Be a Dissident by @galbeckerman.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-... "What anchors Beckerman’s book, and ultimately what stays with the reader, is its emotional honesty." Fascinating discussion of gender & dissent, & naturally glad to see the Milk Tea Alliance part 👇

Extremely grateful for this deeply engaged review of How to Be a Dissident in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which correctly diagnoses my state of mind: "He does not flinch from his own dilemmas...This is writing that trusts the reader to be in the same difficulty. It earns that trust."

Americans have long imagined that they set off a global age of revolt. Seen within the era’s wider wars of empire, the story looks rather different. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Livestream event! Join us for a conversation about the backbone of modern life—the robust network of delicate undersea cables that makeup the internet—featuring experts across business, engineering, and journalism. 🗓️ Wed May 6, 12pm ET Everyone is welcome! Just be sure to register by 5/1 ⤵️

Great piece about a fascinating man www.ft.com/content/2574... Chinese dissident Li Ying: ‘Our work is about being ready for the tipping point’

Nice to see the company my @columbiagr.bsky.social book is keeping at JF Books in DC

Heading to GW where I'll be in dialogue with Nan Z. Da at 1:30 at the Elliott School on reading Orwell, Shakespeare and Twain in China (we'll do an extended version of this in the evening at JF Books, starting at 6)

Important court decision coming up in Thailand on May 12, on the conscription law that Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal has challenged: www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/gen...

Looking forward to being part pf this event tomorrow at GW in DC cc @ncuscr.bsky.social 👇 (as well as to then speaking at 6pm at JF Books—next door to Kramers)

Heading to DC to do this event tomorrow evening at the great JF bookstore with Nan Z. Da (as well as a similar dialogue at a GW forum on China at 1:30 tomorrow) www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Thanks to all who hosted me at IU, great to see old friends & be part of an exciting new(ish)Taiwan initiative (+ got to show for the first time at a campus talk the new Taiwan edition of my MTA book & my just out yellow primer, + a brand new book I like that’s by someone else & cites my MTA one

Very pleased to see The Milk Tea Alliance as a phenomenon & Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal as an individual make cameos in the just published book How To Be a Dissident by @galbeckerman.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816867...

Baifang Schell book prizes announced chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2... —congrats to Barbara Demick & Fang Fang (& translator @bairuiwen.bsky.social ) for their awards (& congrats too to honorable mention awardees, @emilyzfeng.bsky.social & the authors and translators of 3 notable books)

We're thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize, our awards for nonfiction and literature from or on China and the Sinophone world published in 2025. See the winners and honorable mentions: chinabooksreview.com/2026/04/23/2...

Extraordinarily good exchange on the implications of developments in AI for autocratic systems and those who would challenge them, focusing on China but with broad relevance m.youtube.com/watch?v=8WxX... — @rorytruex.bsky.social w/good questions & Molly Roberts & Jennifer Pan w/smart clear answers

Today’s the pub date for this little rocket of a book that was no more than some jotted down notes a year ago. I hope you get a chance to check it out, and I hope it feels meaningful and helpful!

👇 @eosnos.bsky.social @ishaantharoor.bsky.social (mainly glad for Netiwit, most impressive & accomplished intellectual under 30 I know, but added perk is my @columbiagr.bsky.social book getting cited in an important new work & in good company, eg Sparks by @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social is cited too)

Very pleased to see The Milk Tea Alliance as a phenomenon & Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal as an individual make cameos in the just published book How To Be a Dissident by @galbeckerman.bsky.social www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816867...

Thanks JF Books for listing the Taiwan edition of my @columbiagr.bsky.social Milk Tea Alliance book as arecommended read jfbooks.org?srsltid=AfmB... --happy to be speaking at your store again 4.30 (w/the talented Nan Z. Da this time), wish I was in town to catch @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social on 4.22

Delighted to have two reviews of my very short new book, come out in Cha: chajournal.com/2026/04/20/e... (review by Jennifer Eagleton, a versatile & thoughtful Hong Kong-based writer) & chajournal.com/2026/04/20/a... (a review by Susan Blumberg-Kason, a versatile & thoughtful Chicago-based writer)

Via @bookriot.bsky.social bookriot.com/best-new-boo... 👇

Happy publication day to @galbeckerman.bsky.social whose important and engaging new book How to Be a Dissident is out today www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/816867... (a strong short follow up yo his impressive last book on the history of social & intellectual movements The Quiet Before)

First review of my new very short primer chajournal.com/2026/04/20/e...

👇 (end of the review) www.the-tls.com/history/revo...