Thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and Rhoda Kwan for this thoughtful review!

Thanks to Angus Stewart for this thoughtful and insightful review and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho for helping get this out: chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/f...

Great detailed NPR story by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social on the discovery of a long thought lost Chinese typewriter, with @tsmullaney.bsky.social & @yangyangcheng.bsky.social adding context (& writer inventor linguist Lin Yu-tang’s granddaughter interviewed too) www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

中国文学走出去之困境及出路—白睿文教授访谈录 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4bLmqSP7Hm...

Thanks to Peggy McInerny and the International Institute for this profile on some of my recent work: www.international.ucla.edu/institute/ar...

Congratulations to @jwassers.bsky.social on his new book, THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE!

For a long time I’d been wondering, “what’s his end game?” And the only logical conclusion I could come up with was: trigger civil unrest, bring in the military, declare martial law, suspend elections, and don the crown. We’re almost there. Stay tuned for the coronation…

經過《武漢日記》的風波之後， 很多人一聽到方方這個名字，馬上想到日記以及它當時所帶來的各種政治抱負。可惜在這個過程當中，很多人把方方老師原來的身分給忘卻。但方方首先是一位作家，一位非常獨特而且非常勇敢的作家，她的小說一直在探索其他作家很少願意面對的議題。今年《奔跑的火光》和《軟埋》兩本長篇小說的英譯本終於在英美出版了。也算是可以給海外讀者一個機會認識方方的另外一個面目，也可以擺脫疫情期間的種種誹謗和罵聲，讓讀者走進方方的小說世界。 這次特別高興應袁莉的邀請上「不明白播客」談談方方老師的《軟埋》和方方老師的小說。 youtu.be/U700nir8UhI

This plan by Sec Rubio and the Dept of State needs to be “aggressively rejected!”

Video recording now live on Youtube: youtu.be/t7Khs05XP6s?...

Tomorrow: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Very happy to share the brilliant Yangyang Cheng (Yale) with I’ll join us tomorrow as discussant during our panel. @yangyangcheng.bsky.social

Pleased to announce that Peter Hessler, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of such books as The Buried, River Town, Country Driving; and Other Rivers will be joining our panel on 6/5.

For those interested in digging deeper into this topic, please join us for a webinar on Thursday 6/5 9-11am PT: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Chinese Exclusion 2.0?: An Online Teach-In on Visa Revocations and What it Means for Chinese Students and the U.S. @chowleen.bsky.social @jackchin.bsky.social @kaiserkuo.bsky.social; Mae Ngai, (Columbia); Thomas Kellogg, (Georgetown Law) www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

If your spider sense isn’t screaming, check your pulse: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Amazing selection of Taiwan classic films streaming for free in Taiwan +! www.taiwanplus.com/the-pursuit-...

The Collapse of Heaven: The Taiping Civil War and Chinese Literature and Culture, 1850–1880 Huan Jin, Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Tuesday, June 3, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Royce Hall 243 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Without Us: The Art of Natural World Wang Mansheng, Artist-in-Residence 2025-26, Huntington Chinese Garden Tuesday, June 3, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom Webinar www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Status: Developing a Category of Analysis for the Early Global World Friday, May 30, 2025
3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Royce Hall, Rm 306 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

In response to Marco Rubio's recent announcement that the US will "aggressively" revoke Chinese visas, Beijing's spokesperson responded by saying how this action “lays bare the US lie of its so-called freedom and openness”, I absolutely agree. (1)

It was a fun distraction to discuss King Hu with Céline Zen on the Kung Fu Movie Podcast: kungfumovieguide.com/kfmg-podcast...

Technological Leapfrogging and Institutional Control: Ironworking in the Qin–Han Capital Region Talk by Lam Wengcheong, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wednesday, May 28, 2025
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Dodd Hall 275 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Today, 5/27 4pm in Bunche 10383, Alvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) speak on queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society. RSVP: ucla.in/3SCsAIs Event Page: ucla.in/44sx0ZN

Han Song featured in the NYT! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/w...

Today on Zoom: To Amuse, Amass, and Multiply: Ai, Rebel and the Art and Activism of Ai Weiwei Online Lecture by FOONG Ping (Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum) May 22, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Live via Zoom www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

UCLA CCS Events This Week: Nationalism and Empire: Their Dynamics and Implications for the World and Asia-Pacific Lecture by Dingxin Zhao (University of Chicago) Wednesday, May 21, 2025
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

《字裡行間：華人作家對談錄》正式上市了！ 現在可以在博客來和其它網絡書店直接訂購。https://www.books.com.tw/products/0011020787?sloc=main www.books.com.tw/products/001... 謝謝支持！

While the whole world seems to be all hot and bothered by the AI boom, I offer a slightly different take. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...

This is what I was talking about….

License to Bullshit: How Chinese Judges Cover Up Evidence of Gender Violence Lecture by Ethan Michelson is Professor of Sociology and Law at Indiana University Bloomington Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Jia Zhangke’s new film CAUGHT BY THE TIDES, no playing in NYC and coming soon to theaters across the US.

Thanks to NIINA POLLARI for her thoughtful review of The Running Flame: zonamotel.substack.com/p/review-the.... @columbiaup.bsky.social

License to Bullshit: How Chinese Judges Cover Up Evidence of Gender Violence Lecture by Ethan Michelson is Professor of Sociology and Law at Indiana University Bloomington Thursday, May 15, 2025 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

賈樟柯在CC的櫃子裡挑了哪一些片子呢？https://youtu.be/m6bQdKaRlsw?si=Ghzumjuh4dENx6rW

难得的机会，著名历史学者和公共知识分子，秦晖教授周一来UCLA中国研究中心作专题演讲，题目是「拯救民主：低人权优势与全球民主危机」！欢迎各位来听秦教授的讲座！ Monday, May 12, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
UCLA， Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

How to Have an American Baby Los Angeles Filmforum presents How to Have an American Baby. In person discussion following the screening with director Leslie Tai and Michael Berry 2220 Arts + Archives Sat 10 May at 1:00 pm dice.fm/event/2wdm3m...

二十多年以來，斷斷續續總有一些機會跟我尊重的華人作家進行深度的對談與討論。每次舉辦這種對談活動總會把內容錄下來，慢慢整理成文字，萬一日後有出版的機會。。。經過多年的努力，這些寶貴的紀錄終於整理成書稿，現在《字裡行間：華人作家對談錄》（上下冊）可以跟讀者見面。 www.books.com.tw/products/001... www.books.com.tw/products/001...

秦晖主讲「拯救民主：低人权优势与全球民主危机」 Monday, May 12, 2025
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
UCLA， Bunche Hall 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Today at UCLA, Wu Ming-Yi will talk about his novels Routes in a Dream and The Stolen Bicycle: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Wrote a short article reflecting on just a few of the sad absurdities of recent days. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

War Writing as a Post-War Generation: About Route in the Dream, The Stolen Bicycle and a novel waiting to be completed Lecture by Wu Ming-Yi （吳明益） Thursday, May 1, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Young Research Library www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/events

謝謝中央社把《痛史》（新版）列為「每週好書讀」的書單上！ www.cna.com.tw/proj_goodboo...

“War Writing as a Post-War Generation: About Route in the Dream, The Stolen Bicycle and a novel waiting to be completed” A Lecture by Wu Ming-Yi Thursday, May 1, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM UCLA Young Research Library Main Conference Room 11360 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

My sincere thanks to Madeleine Thien and NYRB for this thoughtful review of Fang Fang's fiction and my own book "Translation, Disinformation and Wuhan Diary." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Several upcoming events at UCLA CCS: Symposium: Performance, Media, and Place-Making in East Asia Thursday, April 24, 2025
TBA
UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Conference Center www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

Identities in Motion Unraveling Social Networks Along the Proto-Silk Road Talk by Prof. Andrew Womack, Furman University Thursday, April 10, 2025
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

In a world gone mad, at least there’s still this…