Thrilled that my essay, "Fear and Writing in Xinjiang," was chosen by the editors of the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social to be included in their 15th Anniversary Anthology! Thanks to @jwassers.bsky.social and @bspivey.bsky.social for commissioning the piece and for their editorial work!

Happy to be quoted by Joe Leahy of @financialtimes.com for this article about the new law in China that would further erode the language (and other) rights of non-Han people. Probably paywalled but happy to share. www.ft.com/content/94be...

@bennoweiner.bsky.social in @financialtimes.com on new law that ends minority language education in core subjects in #innermongolia, #tibet, #xinjiang: It “overturns the multicultural promises upon which China was founded.”

Important (but not surprising) research from a Bowdoin college that AI has different responses to questions on #HongKong, #Xinjiang, #Taiwan, and #Tibet based on whether you input 简体字 or 繁體字 petsymposium.org/popets/2025/...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Don't skip this Rhyming Chaos podcast, hosted by @goldkorn.bsky.social, in which journalist Soyonbo Borjgin discusses his life in Inner Mongolia, protests against CCP ethnic minority policies, and going through re-education.

Sheffield Hallam Apologizes to American Scholar Over Publication Ban Curtailment of Laura Murphy’s research into alleged forced labor practices in China raises further questions over foreign government interference... Read the latest from @timeshighered.bsky.social ➡️ https://bit.ly/43fUPCK

Drawing on one month of residence in a retirement community outside Beijing, Brian DeMare examines the Chinese silver-hair market, tracing everyday experiences of retirees and highlighting the interplay between personal memories of PRC history and the commodification of elder care in today's China.

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

Opening next month at Vancouver's Museum of Anthropology and on view through our #AAS2026 dates, "Entangled Territories: Tibet Through Images" will surely be a must-visit for conference attendees!

New Issue of 20th Century China, includes two must-read articles on Inner Asia: Gyatso Marnyi on "The Creation of Qinghai Province on the Inner Asian Frontier of Republican China," and @bhales06.bsky.social on "The Cleansing of the Class Ranks Campaign in Altay, 1968–1972." muse.jhu.edu/issue/55629

Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social. "100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h

1/3 I appear on Asia Insight (NBR) discussing “Documenting China’s Borderlands: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies.” Benno Weiner & Robert Barnett join. Listen (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin... @nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social

Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i... Then go read the book!

A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion. Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: 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

I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow! @remotexuar.bsky.social

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇 We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week! www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica Deadline: October 15 Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

We're thrilled to see @bennoweiner.bsky.social's review of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China" by Edward Wong has been nominated for a 2025 Kukula Award! Read his review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

👇Note to those working on China, one of the two short lists includes @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (for his @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social essay on the biography of Liu Xiaobo) and the other includes @bennoweiner.bsky.social (for his @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social essay on @ewong.bsky.social 's book)

Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Read the Review 👇 lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is." Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:

Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine. The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor. Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs apply.interfolio.com/170040

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

Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...

As part of our efforts to include the erased histories of all ethnic groups in China, @minjianarchives.bsky.social newsletter today discusses a key work of Uyghur resistance: A Land Drenched in Tears. This is also our first trilingual newsletter! chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/a30?utm_ca...

Thank you to all the participants of the 5th International Amdo Research Network workshop at the University of Leeds. Looking forward to continuing our conversations at IATS next summer in Kathmandu!

🪖 I dunno man. Just, like, suddenly wanted to share photos of the time I covered Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang military parade from 2010. Enjoy!

"Every chapter is a gem"! Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories." @aaronwmoore.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-...

A very thoughtful review from @guobin-yang.bsky.social on the book Jennifer Altehenger & I edited over the last few years w/ support from @britishacademy.bsky.social. We indeed struggled with excluding 文革, but thought this story needed to be told 1st--'The future still held multiple possibilities.'

Today's banger: youtu.be/m7uk0-vlpP0?... #崔健 #一無所有

First day of the #AASinAsia2025 @bennoweiner.bsky.social Levering the Margins #kathmandu

REMINDER: join us Tomorrow May 29 @4pm for the first ARN New Books on Amdo talk w/ authors Shannon Ward, Tim Thurston and moderator Huatse Gyal! Details 👇

Excited to have received an advanced copy of Tsering Döndrup’s remarkable novel, The Red Wind Howls, which recounts the Maoist period in the Amdo grasslands. Truly a must read, thanks to Chris Peacock for the English trans. of this essential story. Highly recommended @columbiaup.bsky.social

This should be a great discussion on language and the politics of language in Amdo

Appearing on the Sinica podcast was a bucket list sort of thing. Thanks to @kaiserkuo.bsky.social for having me on to talk about ethnopolitics in China. There's more I wish I had said, and some things I wish I had said differently, but give it a listen! www.sinicapodcast.com/p/live-at-pi...

NEW: Timothy Thurston’s book Satirical Tibet, another contribution to the thriving field of Amdo studies stephenjones.blog/2025/04/13/s...

Fascinating new article by Li Gang in the Journal of the EACS on perceptions of Muslim demographics in China: “Recognition through Numbers: Muslim Population Numbers and the Hui in Modern China” journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/je...

ICYMI, this 2002 PhD dissertation by Pan Yue, current head of the national ethnic affairs commission, drew up a blueprint for settler colonialism 20 years ago. he specifically wrote that China should learn from the experience of the westward movement

Finally got my printed copy of Tim Thurston's outstanding «Satirical Tibet». Congratulations once more to Tim on a creative and insightful book.

I didn’t make it up to campus for the Michigan China lunchtime lecture by @bennoweiner.bsky.social, but am luckily able to listen in via Zoom.

One of the extraordinary anecdotes from @emilyzfeng.bsky.social book: A Salar watchman punched Chen Quanguo in the face after Chen attempted to enter a mosque in Qinghai with his shoes on. Listen to her talk tonight at Asia Society New York! asiasociety.org/center-us-ch...

TODAY @ NOON ET in NYC: COLUMBIA PROFESSORS TO HOLD EMERGENCY VIGIL AGAINST ADMIN CONCESSIONS TO TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. Columbia gates at 116th & Amsterdam Ave (Not Broadway) • Hands Off Our Students, Faculty, & Research • Defend Science • Defend Academic Freedom • Defend Freedom of Speech