Congratulations to @audreyt.org for being one of the recipients of the 2025 Right Livelihood Awards rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

@nhledbetter Thanks

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Any clues about this Chinese propaganda poster that seems to photoshop in Mao, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De? It's from a family house in a market town in Hainan, 2016

Hey all, my article "The Imperial Gaze: Affective Governance, Hybrid Cartography, and China’s U-Shaped Line" is published in _Geopolitics_ today: it's OA, so please click and download, for free! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Seoul Whistler Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

thanks

Entry level kids Mandarin books

@mikeygow.bsky.social Wow! what is the source? here he is at 2024 New Year Gala: m.youtube.com/watch?v=onow...

It's a great pleasure to see this published, my translation of Second Skin, the Chinese novelette by emerging female writer Dan Shi, science fiction about feminism, technology and the female body. #scifi #China #sff www.easternwood.co/herstory-en-1/

We just launched the new 7th edition of Wilkinson, this time as a digital-only version but available through Kindle and Apple Books as well as through Pleco. $59.99, or $29.99 if you buy it in Pleco as an upgrade from 5/e or 6/e.

A level entry data revealed today shows that Economics and Politics continue to grow in popularity with students – while other social sciences, humanities and arts face declines. See the full story here:

This is an excellent article that deserves to be widely read and cited. Congratulations Sara Wong!

It could have been better but was good enough that I’ll keep watching

Is Libgen working? if so, which one?

Hey academic peeps, does anyone have an e-version of Wood and Fels, The Natures of Maps (2008)? I'm away from my library, and need to take a look.

My film "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" (2024, 23min) is showing in London next Tues 10 June, 6:30-8pm Film trailer: vimeo.com/966479344 Place: Royal Asiatic Society 14 Stephenson Way London NW1 2HD maps.app.goo.gl/cYfssY37fYgt...

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by South Asian Short Film Festival (India) and the KKIFF2025 - Cinebalu Screenings (Malaysia) via FilmFreeway.com! and by the

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Pune Short Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Short Way International Short Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

compare with how nicely recent pope's treat CCP ...

love the maps

Our PhD candidate @mariahtthornton.bsky.social has recently co-authored an article with Professor Nitasha Kaul titled "Construction and control of cartographic imaginaries: #Kashmir and #Taiwan" in @risjnl.bsky.social. ➡️ Read the full article to learn more: bit.ly/4i3q0Fy #AcademicSky #PoliSky

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by New Jersey Documentary Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

Full house for Roxane Gay’s The Portable Feminist book launch with Mona Eltahawy, Brooklyn

My friend and colleague Ethan Ris has a modest proposal for higher education: slate.com/life/2025/04...

That big awful NYT op-ed by Lung Ying-tai on how Taiwan should do a peace deal with China—before it’s too late…I agree, a peace treaty sounds great as long as the PRC admits defeat and agrees to re-install the Republic of China on the mainland. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/o...

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Nitiin International Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

sensiblepolitics.net/toilet-adven... My Thai friends disagree....

A interesting war of words has recently erupted between Taiwanese historian Lee Hsiao-feng and James Soong in the Libery Times op-ed pages. Lee started it by going after Soong for saying that Taiwan was a deserted/wild/desolate island and that the Qing were Chinese. talk.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...

My film "The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China" is showing today in Kathmandu at the Nepal International Film Festival. I wish I could be there to see all the other great films. See the film's trailer here: vimeo.com/966479344

Amazing news! The Nose Knows: Foreignness and Fortune in China was just selected by Luleå International Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com! See the trailer here: vimeo.com/966479344

Thank you to @jimsciutto.bsky.social and @cnn.com for having @badiucao.bsky.social and I on for YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION! A story of a fascist US and authoritarian China at war, we're glad our story works for folks from teens to geopolitics wonks. 💥 GRAB YOUR COPY: melissachan.com/revolution

📺 Great to be on CNN with co author @melissakchan.bsky.social to talk about our graphic novel ‘You Must Take Part In Revolution’ ！ Photo taken in its NYC studio. Sharing the clip tomorrow 🎬 Get our book： Badiucao.com/book

all of them: green, green, light green, purple

Note that this Chinese artist is using stamps from Imperial Japan (!) #empire #worldwar2 #anti-JapaneseWar

Hope to attend!! online, that is.. Three Images of “Civilization” in Contemporary China: Global Civilization Initiative, Ecological Civilization, and Science Fiction Struggles--lecture by Prof.William Callahan @billcallahan.bsky.social When: February 27th, 2025 at 4pm PST u.osu.edu/mclc/2025/02...

thanks @magnusfiskesjoe.bsky.social

📽️ Looking for thought-provoking films about #migration? @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social has compiled a searchable list of 120+ migration-related movies, offering diverse perspectives on mobility, identity, and human movement. ⬇️ What are your must-watch films on migration?

Did you miss our event “One Picture, One Thousand Words: Pictorial Storytelling in China’s Foreign Policy” on Jan 22?   You can now listen to the event podcast featuring @billcallahan.bsky.social, Florian Schneide, and @giuliasciorati.bsky.social. 🎧 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa... #partoflse #China

Biggest thief of intellectual property (I.e. all of our works) then complains about IP theft

OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company’s proprietary models to train its own open-source competitor, as concerns grow over a potential breach of intellectual property. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

Bristol-a home for the study of Hong Kong history since 2015. It all started with the generous support of the Hatton Trust 10 years ago. On Jan 16, we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the commencement of the journey with seminars, a tour to our Hong Kong Archives and reunion of friends.

Honnêtement j'essaye d'en rire hein mais c'est dur ce matin.

Skipping the usual delighted/excited to say I’m bringing 20+ years of knowledge & fire in my belly to UN Expert Panel on SDG5 in New York.

❗The application deadline for the Montague Burton Chair in International Relations at LSE is fast approaching. Don’t miss out on this opportunity—apply by 9 February 2025, and please share widely with your networks! #AcademicSky #PSJMInfo #polisky #academicjobs ➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/I/...

uh-oh, that means it's true

we should always remember that it's the PRC threatening Taiwan, not vice versa

"Although Trump himself has little personal interest in Taiwan, the strong 'pro-TW' faction within his admin may push him to take aggressive actions, increasing the likelihood of military friction in the TW Strait" - Sun Chenghao, head of the US-Europe program at CISS, Tsinghua University.

Storm brewing in China’s solar-panel sector threatens to spiral out of control: Solar industry faces year of reckoning as Opec-style pact falters amid a price war and excess capacity – SCMP