👇 The traditional Chinese characters translation of The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing will be available at Eslite among other places once it publishes soon www.eslite.com/product/1001...

Researching on women & #Buddhism in #HongKong; history indeed looks entirely different if we centre women instead. The earliest Buddhist community, school, hospital, chaplaincy… were all founded by women, monastic or lay, during the war, the Cold War, social upheavals, famines, pandemics, and more.

H. S. Sum Cheuk Shing’s “Chinese #Religious Practice as #Protest: The Night Assemblies of #HongKong's 2019 Anti-ELAB Movement” in our special forum “ #Religion & #SocialMovements in Hong Kong”:

The Jiao Festivals #太平清醮 (purification rite) this year received extra attention for its use of bamboo scaffolding and, as we argued in this JAS special forum, popular religions have provided a sense of (political) identity in #hongkong: #religion #chinesereligion #daoism #ritual #jiaofestival

@tingguowrites.bsky.social : "Many of the tragic events in locations far from us are shaped by local and global politics, international capital, and modern state institutions, rather than by ‘culture’, and we must contextualise these events while also recognising their connections to ‘our world’."

also enjoying this open-access paper from Myung-Sahm Suh: Vacillating between the Cold War and the Culture War: The Contemporary Predicament of the Korean Evangelical Right www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/la...

A highly recommended read: “Hong Kong has gone through so many traumas and so much mourning in the past five years, and all of us have repressed emotions: anger towards the neoliberal and authoritarian powers, and grief for the lives and the way of life that have been lost”.

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When the Hong Kong fire occurred, initial international media coverage focused on bamboo scaffolding. This Orientalised and exoticised the tragedy, obscuring the fact that it was not just an accident, but an outcome shaped by long-term neglect and inequality, writes @tingguowrites.bsky.social.

A difficult piece to write, for all the emotional turmoil for #hongkong #HongKongFire (+my ill-timed minor surgery). But #emotions are powerful; they create a #community of #mourning across boundaries & envision a future under impossible conditions. Please feel them to transcend the distance bt us:

We also discussed @helenjinkim.bsky.social ‘s Race for Survival: How #ColdWar South #Korea Shaped American #Evangelical Empire!

📣we have a new episode - the very first Shicha episode in English!📣 @tingguowrites.bsky.social talks to Myung-Sahm Suh on the global Christian right, religion and modern Korea! open.spotify.com/episode/574D...

Some photos from the Tai Po fire memorial area yesterday.

HKFP spoke with Hongkongers from the Muslim community who have stood in solidarity with families who lost loved ones in the Tai Po fire. Another mourner called for accountability. Video: Johnny Wan/HKFP. In full: buff.ly/6HVaFLa

I’ve always thought there was a dissertation topic in bamboo scaffolding.

Bamboo scaffoldings’ spiritual significance: they’re an essential part of Jiao/ Chiu 醮 festivals: www.instagram.com/p/DRHQmoWiWw... #hongkong #daoism #religion

Tai Po in flames @lausanhk.bsky.social: "While many commentators outside #HongKong have been repeating the mantra of “Hong Kong is dead” since 2020, the powerful mutual aid and calls for #justice are solid evidence of the continuing #agency of people": lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...

Inmediahk reports that HK university student Miles Kwan, who was seen handing out fliers linking to a petition demanding an independent investigation and accountability for the Tai Po fire was detained and taken to the police station. The online petition and related media has since been deleted.

Viral video: south asian minorities in #hongkong showing support. If they were still viewed as outsiders in 2019 protests, it’s a more inclusive sense of #community this time. The emotional-political community thru mourning (hopefully) transcends racial boundary: www.instagram.com/reel/DRmtOuu...

Rather timely? #Decoloniality roundtable from #HongKong, smth I co-wrote w/ former colleagues who have also been working on amazing project called “Doing Theory in Southeast Asia” www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

This repository aims to collect, organize, and preserve publicly available information related to the #hongkong #hongkongfire on 26 November 2025; Contributions are welcome from residents, researchers, and professionals: github.com/Hong-Kong-Em...

Rhodora Alcaraz, a domestic worker from the Philippines saved a baby in the #hongkongfire. Baby’s stable; she’s in ICU: www.instagram.com/p/DRm9iGyAQW...

Remembering another fire: It’s the 3-yr anniversary of the #whitepapermovement, which started also after a deadly #fire in a highrise building: the #Ürümqifire in 2022 that killed more than 10 but remains under investigated. It was in a Uyghur Muslim region under China’s zero-Covid policy

China Taiping Insurance Holdings said it was the insurer of the Wang Fuk Court renovation. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates its exposure at HK$2.6 billion (US$334 million), the largest ever in Hong Kong, possibly exceeding the Kimpton Hotel fire in 2023 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Speaking of mourning; if in #Vancouver, a memorial gathering for #hongkong:

It’s mourning that has brought the community together since 2019.

At least four domestic workers are among the 128 people killed in Wednesday's fatal Tai Po fire. Dozens of residents still remain missing or are injured. Video: Johnny Wan/HKFP.

Hong Kongers express their solidarity with the victims of the Tai Po fire by writing words of encouragement and sympathy on Post-It notes. An act that disappeared since 2019 but apparently remain unforgotten since then.

#hongkong 🥹 local NGO (that usually facilitates food waste reduction) opening up for those in need to stay, w/ two meals a day, all FREE OF CHARGE up to three months:

@hongkongggag.bsky.social on IG: www.instagram.com/p/DRl5yG6EYj... #hongkong #hongkongfire

From “Mission for Migrant Workers”: www.instagram.com/missionformi... #hongkong #hongkongfire

The death toll from the massive fire at Tai Po’s Wang Fuk Court has risen to 128, while around 200 residents are still unaccounted for, Hong Kong authorities have said. Full, trusted coverage: hongkongfp.com/wang-fuk-cou...

I have also spoken to a journalist that lives in the neighborhood and he has confirmed that the government "care teams" have started taking over relief centers, kicking out volunteers and taking over supplies donated by the general public.

And it snowed in Toronto today. In popular Chinese #religious epistemology, snow is always related to #injustice. #hongkong #hongkongfire

I wrote a book how #religious #nationalism works in the contemporary world, even in a #secular ( #socialist) context: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

#hongkong ‘s incredible civil society. Vividly remembering 2014 & 2019 movements, when protestors would clean the streets after demonstration, no looting, people helping each other out under tear gas

1/ The death toll in Wednesday's Tai Po residential complex fire has risen to 65. Full, on-the-ground coverage from HKFP: buff.ly/RSwXkVU

Of course the root of this tragedy (65 dead, almost 300 missing in the fire) was political: #hongkong

International media, you can do better than this. "Bamboo" is maybe exotic and a compelling hook but it is too easy. The real story here is the growing culture of corruption, including a lack of accountability and oversight, that enabled a chain of human errors that led to this disaster.

So glad that #Indigenous Knowledge in #Taiwan and Beyond (eds Shu-mei Shih, Lin-chin Tsai) now has a Chinese edition: #booksky

44 dead, 279 missing!! #hongkong

The Fire Services Department brought Wednesday's deadly Tai Po fire under control in the early hours of Thursday. At least 44 people are dead, 279 are missing and dozens are injured after a fire engulfed seven residential towers. Full coverage: hongkongfp.com/2025/11/27/t... Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.

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.

Long sentence but I hope it'll make sense: "The double- #decolonial #agency elucidating these overlapping #colonial dynamics that #liberal frameworks fail to adequately address can only be understood through a #cogent logic, when reason is animated by ostensibly unreasonable feelings."

five dead, three in a critical condition

Great to get to talk about Hong Kong in 2019 & after with Ching Kwan Lee, author of the important new @harvardpress.bsky.social book Forever Hong Kong, podcast moderated expertly by @yangyangcheng.bsky.social for @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2025/11/24/e...

Senior permanent position has opened up in Chinese studies here at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. It is a very nice place. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/rea...

sent out 100 emails during #aarsbl25 to invite review roundtables on recently published amazing books. receiving emails back after the conference = harvest time, the happiest time for a review editor. #aarsbl2025

Last day #aarsbl25. Edited amazing reviews on incredible books b4 heading to the airport. Doing editorial work during a mega conference was ☠️👻 But reading such engaging, empathetic words can be magically therapeutic & empowering. This is what makes the job meaningful. Thank U all for ur part in it

More books from #aarsbl25 #aarsbl2025 incl Literature for Little Bodhisattvas: Making #Buddhist Families in Modern #Taiwan, Countless Sands: #Medieval Buddhists and Their Environments, #Islamic China: An #Asian History @protass.bsky.social