Global Voices interviewed Uyghur sociologist Dilnur Reyhan to better understand the challenges facing the Uyghur diaspora, especially in Europe.

Thinking of #zohranmandani ‘s father #MahmoodMamdani ‘s quote on the May Fourth writer Lu Xun. Hope is perhaps one of the best examples of #cogencytheory; it’s a thing with feathers, it’s an intellectual passion, the youthful spirit that animates how we envision a new world

American Unexceptionalism: Global Lessons on Fighting #Religious #Nationalism: open.spotify.com/show/1EKABIH...

Great to see Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han #Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social! Great comparison with Hyaeweol Choi’s Gender Politics at Home and Abroad: #Protestant #Modernity in #Colonial-Era Korea: newbooksnetwork.com/good-wife-wi...

Professor Jennifer A. Selby presents Secular Sensibilities, a critical ethnography of how secular regimes in France and Québec shape bodies, emotions, and belonging through the surveillance of racialized couples. politicsrights.com/secular-sens... @jselby.bsky.social #Secularism #Ethnography.

In 2024 we published a special forum on #religion & social movements in #HongKong. It received a lot of positive responses 🙏 The topic remains critical and we’d like to transform it into an edited volume. Grateful for any information on potential publishers! Thank you! t.co/ETkaJITTmq

The into to the original roundtable Why ‘Decolonizing Chinese History?’ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Super excited to see #Decolonzing Chinese History published in Taiwan! Congratulations @dgtam86.bsky.social @catielila.bsky.social!!

"We are the leaders we've been waiting for." -Grace Lee Boggs

🚨How can we write about China-US relations without a Cold-War binary or Orientalist rhetoric? Check out our upcoming virtual writing workshop with @yangyangcheng.bsky.social! 📅6 December 2025, 12 – 1:45 PM 💲$40 USD ($20 for students/members/grads) For more details: nuvoices.com/2025/10/27/v...

Hong Kong Film Festival UK amplifies the work of women filmmakers from the city’s New Wave cinema movement, which evocatively captures the region’s recent transformations. Read editor Jessie Lau’s interview with festival curator Ching Wong:

Chungjae Lee, The Tempos of #Decolonization: Violence, Temporality, and Colonial #Korea: “To what extent does #revolutionary #violence delay or accelerate the process of decolonization?” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Chris Jingchao Ma & Heng Simone Wang: Chinese Trans-Antagonistic Feminism and the Transnational Circulation of Transmisogyny on Social Media:

I remember this feeling of hope & enthusiasm. It was the 2019 district council election in #HongKong, with unprecedented turnout - before the disqualification, resignation, and arrest of many of those took part.

Zohran Mamdani has won, & will be the next mayor of NYC.

Singapore friends! It’ll be a flying visit but it’d be wonderful to see you 💛 Wed, 12 November 2025 2:00–4:00 pm FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42 Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt

twinning Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison: www.cambriapress.com/pub.cfm?bid=...

Looking forward to Hong Kong Equal Opportunities Commission 平等機會委員會 founder Fanny Cheung 張妙清's memoir that hints a different feminist trajectory: not in terms of early 20th c May Fourth intellectuals/activists (as in China), but postwar- #ColdWar (student) movements & the emergence of civil society

Figures of #Buddhist #Diplomacy in Modern Asia (edited by Jack Meng-Tat Chia), @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, forthcoming in 2026 with open access: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/figures-o...

The Death of Remembrance: A Review of May 35th (Gengzi Edition Global)《5月35日(庚子版)》by Curllous Longtemps (pseudonym) in @asiancha.bsky.social: hkprotesting.com/2020/07/25/r...

Transnational/ multiple/ inter-imperialism today

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown": 「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」 -魯迅，故鄉 #everynightapoem

Around two-thirds of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong say purchasing menstrual products places a financial strain on them, according to an NGO's survey on period poverty. In full: buff.ly/xZl50ee

Poems appearing in the 𝔸ℙ𝕆ℂ𝔸𝕃𝕐ℙ𝕊𝔼 special feature of Hong Kong’s Voice & Verse. The magazine is accepting submissions of unpublished poems & poems newly translated into English until Monday, 10 November 2025. Contributors will receive a copy of the magazine by post. www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

“Han maps the sites and routes of #leftist & #queer political movements, highlighting challenges posed by #Christian conservatives in both South #Korea & the United States”: Ju Hui Judy Han, Queer Throughlines: Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora, UofMichigan Press 2025:

"In total, the documents show Sheffield [Hallam University] had earned £3.8m in 2021/22 from China and Hong Kong." That's how little was enough for them to sell out.

This is a remarkable case of Chinese authorities threatening a UK university into halting research on human rights violations, and the university acquiescing.

and we have it: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/b...

She's known for writing on politically significant events incl the 2009 play May 35th - euphemism for the 1989 June 4 Tiananmen crackdown. Ironically before HK's recent social movements & subsequently tightening political situation, Chong was once referred to (in 2013) as "A Playwright for Our Time"

Would be interesting to learn more about how newer Asian/ Chinese immigrants who might not be so antagonistic to socialism (& might even have stronger ties to [neoliberal] state socialism) understand his proposed economic policies

Immensely proud of this important project:

Open Letter to Protect Tri-Council EDI Data in #Canada: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

academia sometimes in some ways feels like walking in a candlelit infinite space, in which each piece of amazing scholarship = a light lit up by someone else and it will remain illuminous throughout oceans of time

Looking forward to reading @rianthum.bsky.social ‘s important new book, Islamic China. Pre-order your copy today! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Great to see @indexoncensorship.org publish these prison letters by a Thai activist (w/valuable contextualizing comments by @turtelista.bsky.social ); the letters contain elements of interest to those particularly interested in other places, like Korea, as well journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Such a thoughtful review on the preservation of resistance to (gendered) violence by @uoftlibraries.bsky.social EastAsianLib Director Hana Kim:

𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦—Hana Kim on Lin Yi-Han’s 𝐹𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑖-𝐶ℎ𝑖’𝑠 𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝐿𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑒 (HarperVia, 2024), trans. Jenna Tang: "Working in a library, I often reflect on how stories such as Lin’s are preserved." ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.blog/2025/11/01/f... 。。。。。

Mayfair Yang, Spatial Struggles: #Postcolonial Complex, State #Disenchantment, and Popular Reappropriation of Space in Rural Southeast China: share.google/jEUKsHPnWwSt...

𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐧𝐚𝐦. We'd love to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2026. If you are interested in reading any of these titles, please send an email to [email protected] to discuss further.

It's 1997. Our missionary-run school in Kaohsiung doesn't allow Halloween because they think it's satanic. Three missionary families hold a Halloween party anyway because that's stupid. Heavily influenced by the first presidential elections in 1996, I go as "The Spirit of Taiwanese Democracy"

Excellent chapters ranging from historical, material, pedagogical, social, ritual contexts: The Oxford Handbook of Lived #Buddhism: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Great news! Our Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation achieved its paperback edition! www.bloomsbury.com/us/bloomsbur...

A 19-year-old HK woman has pleaded guilty to sedition after appearing in videos promoting a “shadow legislature” that the city's government deems subversive. In full: buff.ly/oPnSLGc

Happy Father’s Day, John…

Taomo Zhou: Boundary, bonds, and bridge: afterword for special issue ‘Cold War China, decolonisation, and the post-colonial international order in Asia’: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Adrian De Leon & Jane Hong, Introduction: Conservatisms and Fascisms in Asian America: (Amerasia Journal: Vol 48, No 1): www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Singapore friends! It’ll be a flying visit but it’d be wonderful to see you 💛 Wed, 12 November 2025 2:00–4:00 pm FASS Research Division Seminar Room, AS7 #06-42 Shaw Foundation Building, Block AS7, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Register at: forms.office.com/r/MCAnvXhSLt

我們一直用理智將人類與動物分開，而「理智」常常是通過語言而表達出來的。可是，雖然擁有情感認知的動物沒有語言，但是牠們和人類一樣擁有理智和認知能力，我們也能通過共情而理解牠們，分享了不經語言調和的認知。 💓🦍 非語言的認知和感受如何將私人與公共連結在一起？Jane #Goodall的科學研究，與情動理論的發展，以及宗教情感的研究，都可說產生了互鏡和交織的作用。點擊連結，學者從人文學、哲學和語言研究的角度，解釋如何看待情感，重新審視Jane Goodall怎樣打破「理智」與「情感」相對的迷思：https://buff.ly/DEB40t5

Jane Goodall去世後，科學研究、環境保育、乃至影視娛樂，各行各業都紛紛紀念。可能會令人意外的是，她的研究其實對近幾年的宗教學領域也有極大啟發，儘管人們通常認為，「科學」與「 #宗教 」，「 #理智 」與「 #情感 」，似乎應該是相對的。

Really, really pleased to see this published: Book Review Roundtable on Decolonizing #Religion and #Queer and #Trans Studies: academic.oup.com/jaar/issue/9...