"We Can't Take Care of Daycare"—could be a good title for some of my working papers....

Activism matters. Public reaction matters. After the Kent State massacre Congress lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. www.kent.edu/magazine/iss...

Violet Feng's "The Dating Game" follows a romance coach in Chongqing and three of his students. In this Q&A, Feng talks about: • China's gender imbalance • 'Left behind' children • AI boyfriends in China • Pick up artist culture & global crises of masculinity

I’m excited to share some professional news: my new book is coming out this February! It will be published open access with University of California Press. www.ucpress.edu/books/immuni... A big thank-you to all of you who made this project possible. @ucpress.bsky.social

November is in the books! Thanks to Keith Rosenthal, Ralf Ruckus, @yige-dong.bsky.social , John Mullen, and @cihantugal.bsky.social for letting us put your work on the web. And thanks to all the contributors to our twelfth issue! Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵

ICYMI: Ralf Ruckus's interview with @yige-dong.bsky.social on Social Reproduction Theory and feminist struggle in the PRC is still live on our website.

The second of our two pieces on this topic—Ralf's interview with @yige-dong.bsky.social —went up yesterday (11/18). spectrejournal.com/the-crisis-o...

A book talk featuring Koji Hirata's new book, Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism, will take place online June 10, 8-10pm EDT. You can find the zoom registration info in the poster.