this entry in @jeremiahjenne.com’s Archive project is a gem.

NED – China Digital Times: 2025 Democracy Award Honoree www.ned.org/china-digita...

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation." For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

a guy who makes cookies & posts about it in insta came up to me while recording on his raybans in Minneapolis and frankly it was quite invasive. he was sweet but if he'd asked to record me I would've given a real review of the cookie. instead it was a "no thanks, best of luck."

The day I left for America.

very cool translated short story + interview combo, give it a read!

Read Fei Dao's Q&A on Chinese sci-fi, and his story "The Storytelling Robot," translated by Alec Ash: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/18/s...

Three Days of the Condor was almost an all-time Secret China Movie™. RIP Robert Redford

“be right there, dude, I’m on the L. Ron Hubbard express.”

Texas A&M has as much free speech as Shanghai. None. In 2021, a Chinese student secretly recorded his teacher questioning the Nanjing Massacre's death toll — a Party taboo. He also said she's a "walking $500k," a reference to the award money for turning in traitors to secret police.

The Shiji abounds with examples of corrupt, venal, or stupid rulers getting cosmic comeuppance. In today's timeline, it's almost quaint to believe in a universal order that punishes terrible leaders. Read more in my latest for @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/09/s...

reading a very popular book right now and....

Translating literature is a brutal and impossible task, so this is not a criticism of the translator. But am I insane for saying that translating this line, "香港不也是中国的地盘吗，所有需要证件的地方，她一概不能去" as "Hong Kong was part of China" is a real loss?

DC house parties are fun, actually, and everyone hating on them here is talking about a small subset of staffer functions that wrap up by 8:30...

LeBron James' essay in the People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Party. An odd move for such a image-minded man, especially as the essay was actually written by a People's Daily journalist based on an interview.

The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting." Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it! chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com (then read the book!) Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... @columbiaup.bsky.social

this story could not be more tailored to me. How Chinese pigeon passion has fueled a crime wave in the Flemish countryside… www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Another podcast! Was wicked fun to chat with bossman @alecash.net about the worst China books around — tune in to the China Books Podcast and check out our other episodes too while you're at it! chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/02/e...

great essay from @arthurkaufman.bsky.social

National Guardsmen armed with rifles on the DuPont Metro platform this morning — there is no possible justification for them carrying rifles beyond intimidating the people of D.C. Truly despicable.

It really is Moby-Dick Summer

JUST POSTED: How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City - a NYT investigation with Jay Root, Bianca Pallaro, and @fahrenthold.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

Actually fascists

Jen Lin-Liu thinks we're going about Chinese cookbooks all wrong... read this tour de force essay on everyone's favorite China book: their cookbook. chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/21/c...

I asked the question we are all wondering: IS XI JINPING FUNNY? The answer may (not) surprise you. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Seven people from the church right outside my window have been detained by ICE, including an usher on the way to Sunday Mass. Cruel, antithetical to true American values, and cowardly. religionnews.com/2025/08/19/a...

Barber shop "The Supreme People's Coif" (a pun on China's top court) shut down by authorities in Guizhou. The tagline, "dealing with matters of top-most importance" did not pass muster either. No fun!

for those not already in the know... China Books Review has you covered: chinabooksreview.com/2024/01/11/o...

What does Americans read about China? Conspiracy theories. All are really about America. But China, its agents and its sympathizers, is presented as the cause of the myriad social ills — addiction, violence, poverty and disease — that plague American society. chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/19/n...

I got back in the lab... by reading a clutch of terrible books on China. Dropping tomorrow!

What’s happening in D.C. is tyranny.

insanity. standing silently on the sidewalk now earns you a threatened beating from trump’s thugs.

We're reading Women, Seated for the China Books Review book club, which meets in New York and D.C. in September — email me to RSVP — promises to be a delight! chinabooksreview.com/book-club/

I know this is supposed to be young John Lewis but all I can see is LeBron James barbering Wemby

DC China crowd, who else will be at the 不明白 fest on September 6??? See you there!

No need to travel! The world’s one Lima.

An amazing piece by Robert Foyle Hunwick on Margaret Biottin's book on prostitution in China, which shine when it asks sex workers how they view the industry and themselves: chinabooksreview.com/2025/08/07/s...

On Sydney Sweeney: Read this from 2022: defector.com/the-money-is... and then pair it with this from The Economist: www.economist.com/leaders/2025... Working artists like Sweeney must grind all the time to make ends meet — and that's partly because too much wealth is inherited.

and we’re supposed to treat this as profound?

... part of a politician's job is making hard decisions, if she just dodges all these Q's on a fluff talk show... youtu.be/BD8Nf09z_38

I highly recommend CDT editor @samuelwa.de's recent interview with Badiucao and Melissa Chan on their graphic novel "You Must Take Part in Revolution":

I think this is my favorite translation of all time. I’ve loved so much translated literature, but I return to this again and again

A real honor to work with @tshakya.bsky.social on this incredible piece on the Dalai Lama's book. Please read and share! chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/24/d...

Thanks to China Books Review for the chance to write about (the sadly recently passed) Jane Gardam and her excellent Old Filth trilogy about colonial Hong Kong which, if you haven't read you really should.... chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/22/a...

I wrote about the Tour de France, Pogačar, the cook in Zhuangzi, and my eternal disdain for Lance Armstrong www.ramble.media/p/cyclings-t...

What does queer life feel like on the margins of China’s cities? In this essay, Ian Tian traces the stories of gender- and sexually nonconforming migrant workers in urban villages, exploring how queerness is shaped by class and space and why the LGBTQ+ movement must reckon with its own exclusions.

I wrote about Liang Qichao as a thinker, reformer, exile & influence on Mao & Lu Xun & others for @chinabksreview.bsky.social (thanks at @alexludoboyd.bsky.social for the well thought out initial big edits & @alecash.net for the good final polishing ones) chinabooksreview.com/2025/07/17/l...

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