Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Our event, Fear of Asian Tech: Chips, Platforms, and Social Networks, is coming up at the end of this month! We're thrilled to host Christopher Fan, Janice Lobo Sapigao, and Tony Shyu on SEPTEMBER 25th at 4 PM EST! Learn more & register to attend by visiting the link in our bio, or myumi.ch/P3mjg

New release: Verge: Studies in Global Asias 11.2 -Special issue The Asian Century: Idea, Method, Media -Guest editors @chrisfan.bsky.social, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan -With @chrissuh.bsky.social @darshanamini.bsky.social -OA article @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

This dataset rules. @chrisfan.bsky.social 👀

👇 @myetcetera.bsky.social @chinaheritage.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

Thanks to @chrisfan.bsky.social for this piece on Taipei at Daybreak, as well as Taiwan Travelogue, in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social‬. I really appreciated the engagement with the different textual histories that I drew on

Big and engaging essay by @chrisfan.bsky.social just out in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social on two novels by Taiwanese writers of the Sunflower Movement generation (one of which just won a prize, not for the first time) lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... cc @newbloommag.net @alecash.net

“Any attempt at expressing Taiwanese identity requires inventiveness.” @chrisfan.bsky.social reviews Brian Hioe’s Taipei at Daybreak and Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/movement-injuries/

My review of two new novels about Taiwan: @brianhioe.bsky.social’s Taipei at Daybreak (first novel in English about the Sunflower Movement) & Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue (whose English translation by @linkinglionking.bsky.social won the '24 National Book Award & the Baifang Schell Prize).

Fascism bad. New books good. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...

RIP Joshua Clover critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/t...

👇 Fascinating set of titles and authors and talented translators (eg @jeremytiang.bsky.social & @jenniferfeeley.bsky.social ) in the mix here for this prize cc @wwborders.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social @chrisfan.bsky.social

"My strongest guess is that it is because I have been reasonably outspoken in my critiques of the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza."

“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

"A must-read for anyone who studies or teaches contemporary Asian American literature." ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by Christopher Fan (@chrisfan.bsky.social) reviewed in MELUS. shorturl.at/n6Dyk @columbiaup.bsky.social

A race see which happens first: hurting so many people including their own voters that there’s a massive public backlash or dismantling democratic institutions to the point they can keep power despite public discontent.

Many thanks to Bonnie Yonbom Chung for her lovely review in MELUS of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965. academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...

Cover revealed for Techno-Orientalism 2.0: New Intersections and Interventions... release date July 15, 2025... Edited by David S, Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, and Christopher T. Fan: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/techno-orien...

Today’s finally the day–Taipei at Daybreak is out from @RepeaterBooks. It’s available anywhere books are sold online (www.amazon.com/Taipei-at-Da...) A few days ago after a New Bloom event, I burned a copy of Taipei at Daybreak along with some ghost money for the success of the book

Congrats to @brianhioe.bsky.social on the publication of his novel TAIPEI AT DAYBREAK, the first novel in English about the Sunflower movement & generation. It's a sober depiction of revolutionary desire in our conjuncture, by someone who was there. A key document for our times -- and a page turner!

Coming up Feb 7-8, another robustly interdisciplinary discussion driven public facing conference at @ucirvine.bsky.social put on by The Forum for Academy & the Public that @amywilentz.bsky.social & I co-direct, this year’s theme “Facts Under Fire” sites.uci.edu/factsunderfi...

Just up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, an engaging essay on two novels, Shanghailanders and Tiananmen Square, reviewed astutely by @rfkuang.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/from...

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My book will be available for purchase on January 7, 2025. For readers with a US mailing address, below is a discount code for 30% off on publication day via Penguin Random House. (shorturl.at/wGwwo) PUBDAY30 Please save the date! More on the discount code: shorturl.at/oXuGh @mitpress.bsky.social

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

Excellent thread on the S. Korea situation

Less than two months until my book is out...God, that makes me nervous

It's alive! My book now has a webpage on the University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social website: www.ucpress.edu/books/in-the... Will be available open access in April 2025!

First time plugging the book here: it's on pre-order now and is out July 2025. Ghost Nation is the culmination of 10 years of reporting on Taiwan, a vitally important yet poorly understood country of 23 million. Please consider pre-ordering + help spread the word🙏🙏🙏 www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Nation...

Starting up a list of upcoming books on Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China. There are so many books by many talented folks! Will update this list periodically

What a week in self-owns. First Drake, then Biden, now Yoon.

South Korean citizens helped lawmakers scale the National Assembly walls so they could bypass military barricades and vote against martial law.

Lee Jae-myung, Leader of South Korea's Democratic Party, live-streamed himself scaling the walls of the National Assembly to bypass military barricades so that he could vote to overturn the President's martial law.

listen. I do not report on Korean politics. I'm out here because my (drunk) freelancer requests received a "can't do" so I just set off on my own. this is genuinely the most clumsy scene report possible. I really want to be honest about that.

Save 50-70% off on all @columbiaup.bsky.social books in literary studies, including THE SISTERHOOD, by @courtneythorsson.bsky.social; BIG FICTION, by @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, LOVE, JOE, @dkanepoetry.bsky.social (ed), and ASIAN-AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, by @chrisfan.bsky.social bit.ly/4eU8kuB

Everything's 50% off at @columbiaup.bsky.social today! Including my book. cup.columbia.edu/book/asian-a...

Taiwan researchers -- In the documentary 九槍, do we know what kinds of construction projects Nguyễn Quốc Phi was working on? Were they related to the semiconductor industry in Hsinchu?

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When I was growing up in this community in the 80s-90s, its politics, for better or worse, were far from the hotbed of nationalism depicted here. Wish they had consulted Wendy Cheng, whose ISLAND X is the best account of the politicization of post-65 TW foreign students in the US. Still, great read.

Looking for help to get in touch with Taiwan-based journalists, scholars, and activists who are engaging with the #semiconductor industry. I'm working on a book, and will be in #Taiwan in Dec and would love to interview folks and visit sites. Please DM! Thank you!

Our literature and culture list focuses on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and includes a wide range of books in literary studies, film and media studies, Black studies, and ethnic studies. https://buff.ly/3YByn3I

Created a Taiwan Studies Starter Pack for folks coming from Twitter. Let me know if you ought to be on here! go.bsky.app/TG2GBbz

California AG Rob Bonta tells me CA DOJ has been prepping for months for Trump 2.0 and has already drafted legal briefs, including to challenge a national abortion ban. “We’ve got a lot in our back pocket ready to drop. The whole strategy is thought through. We're very advanced in our preparation."

In this Off the Page episode, host Victoria Lupascu discusses ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965 with author Christopher T. Fan. Through a transnational and historical-materialist approach, this groundbreaking book illuminates what makes texts and authors “Asian American.” https://buff.ly/3AgKZFg

Christopher T. Fan's Asian American Fiction After 1965 is currently having me ready to hang up my hat and quit my PhD project bc it so clearly articulates the very research gaps I am trying to address (so I am no longer innovative 😭😭😭) For real though, it is great reading so far; run, don't walk!

UCI Global Asias 25 registration is now open: tinyurl.com/GA25REG. Conference website: sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... Full program available in October. Please share widely.