I’m excited to share some professional news: my new book is coming out this February! It will be published open access with University of California Press. www.ucpress.edu/books/immuni... A big thank-you to all of you who made this project possible. @ucpress.bsky.social

Yamahata Yōsuke is best known for his grizzly photos of Nagasaki, which offered many Americans their first look at the bodily toll of the a-bomb when they were published in Life in 1952 What I learned only today was that before he was on the ground in Nagasaki, he was in the sky over Chongqing 1/

Great article by Jing Jing Liu on how Nigerian importers of Chinese goods use RMB and cryptocurrency to ease international business transactions, and in the process, cultivate a multicurrency fluency that befits our everchanging multipolar world. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The new issue of GCP is out! How is Mandarin evolving in a changing world? Our contributors explore its transformation at China’s frontiers and beyond—where state control meets public innovation, and global encounters spark new hybrids. Download for free at globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

The new issue of Global China Pulse is out 😊 Thank you to all the wonderful contributors and my co-editors @ivanfranceschini.bsky.social and Hong Zhang. globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

Explore the experiences of South African Chinese in this analysis, examining discrimination, marginalization, apartheid-era struggles, and inter-racial dynamics.

The three major cases against Meta in Kenya raise an important question: can big tech be sued in African countries, and thus others? My latest www.economist.com/middle-east-...

Another proud supervisor moment--excellent essay by my former student, Ziyi Li, based on her MSc thesis project.

A wonderful essay by Amanda Kaminsky on workplace banter and linguistic flexibility in Kenyan-Chinese encounters. @madeinchinajournal.com @globalchinamap.bsky.social globalchinapulse.net/playing-with...

This year I spent months reporting in Colombia, Mexico, and California, following Chinese migrants hoping to seek asylum in the US. It's a route that's become known as 走线. We made a 4-part podcast series about their journey. The first episode is free this week: open.spotify.com/episode/0vTt...

With lots of new people joining Bluesky, we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the projects falling under the umbrella of the Global China Lab, a new non-profit we established this year with the aim of advancing open knowledge about China. 1/

My former student, Charlie Yang, wrote a wonderful essay on matrilocal marriage in China, challenging common assumptions about the place of the live-in son-in-law 赘婿 in the family. @madeinchinajournal.com madeinchinajournal.com/2024/11/19/u...

I watched this in one go at 3 am in the morning -- this is EASILY the best piece of media I've ever consumed about the craft of writing -- even more than Stephen King's "On Writing" or "How to write a lot" (both of which I really enjoyed).