i cannot comprehend what this means

We are speedrunning China huh

they're cooking

puzzling they may be, the Soviet and Chinese liberals who only saw good things about the US were not so different from the American leftists who only see good things about China. for either direction they are more puzzling today than say the 1980s because the internet...

We're in another prole wave right now but the anglophone media learned its lesson from 2011-14 and the extreme anglo-centrism of this app means we're not getting nearly the movement/news crossover of Twitter but the discourse on here is genuinely kept almost entirely within a yt liberal frame

Having my monthly twitter logins and I'm increasingly convinced that the next generation of the GOP is going to be straight-up groypers.

As a FLAS alum this is absolutely abhorrent.

So they decided to throw themselves a year long $21 billion military parade on the sea while the pension system is collapsing

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Decades after it was assumed lost, the first Chinese typewriter with a keyboard reappeared in a NY basement. For Ep.3 of 开门见山|Gateway to Global China, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social talks with historian @tsmullaney.bsky.social about the legendary MingKwai and the century-long effort to type in Chinese.

And @melhogan.bsky.social has collected an excellent library on Critical Data Center Studies at:

Apparently London has both a “Mayor of London” (does normal mayor stuff) and a “Lord Mayor of London” (does civic events in costumes) and like, not to hand it to England, but I think I’ve figured out what we can do with Eric Adams

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

"Representing the canon that scholars of Asian American literature have built, it is the most expansive dataset to date on Asian American literature." Data and essay: doi.org/10.18737/092...

The data doesn't lie; the court order in Los Angeles had a clear and measurable impact.

Really hope this isn't true. With all the issue with US-based area studies, it certainly does not deserve to end like this

adrian vermeule's research program insists that the constitution is a blueprint for a catholic theocracy, which is the legal academic version of a tenured english professor whose entire research program is insisting that the x-men are in canterbury tales

one of the biggest arguments against AI dependence is that the strongest proponents of its use have become visibly *dumber* in the last few years.

Wow why so aggressive? Who's "they" btw? I'm literally a Chinese academic in the US researching US-China settler-colonial economic integration in a time of planetary crisis. To think I don't condemn the US is insane.

> Genocidal Empire So China?

Ok Sorry, Baby is not a bad film at all but like... the director clearly does not know how English grad programs (or US academia) works at all lmao

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA. I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

(1) Ok finished the intro + first chapter today. Actually surprised by how good and unique the prose is which def made the book very enjoyable. Although the book is clearly geared more to an audience of non-China specialist, the author so far def know his shit very well

Every time I’m taking the metro in LA I’m always like why t f is the train waiting at the intersections bro

Many left sects are going to “organize” disgruntled liberals into dead prescriptions and orthodoxies that are not totally equipped to respond to what we're facing. Old paradigms are not being transcended, and these denominations will have to deal with the consequences when new converts realize it.

Rest of the world: China is the future Chinese millennials and zoomers: this fucking garbage age of history, let me just curl up over here, don't wake me up for work because I don't have a job and if I do I hate it

Tooze’s China bro arc just reeks orientalism tbh

It’s just this with a red tint

Lmao what is this Han supremacy washing bullshit

Like everyone know Chinese economy is shit, young ppl can’t find jobs… overproduction…under consumption..etc but Jesus Christ

Has anyone written about the whole cohort of unabashedly Pro-PRC white academics who found prominence within Mainland China? Thinking about ppl like Daniel Bell, Roland Boer, Dan Vukovich, etc

why did I just came across this now? +1 to my summer reading list ig

ppl on fb market place really be discussed the details of picking up a thing and never showed up without giving u any explainations??? Being trying to sell off some of my furniture before moving and this has happened to me like 3 times already??

Are we gonna forget that he's also pro-China and literally supported the Uyghur genocide?

Really insightful piece on the militarization of China's southern border and its relationship to the war in Myanmar

Just saw Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, highly recommend. Feels like it really captured the vibes of Rhodesia as a deteriorating white settler state really, really well.

Settler Colonialism in Action

Finished this after hearing about all the controversy and hate surrounding it and...it's just underwhelming? Like it had a few interesting point (the whole the figure of China at the exteriority of Queer Theory™'s anti-universalist framing)

We’re basically here now

This week, we’re debuting a new issue of multilingual writing from the US. This poem by Uyghur writer Tahir Hamut Izgil (tr. @jlfreeman.bsky.social ) takes a close look at the intersection of environmental extraction and human exploitation. Read it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

After two years of work, this little guy is editor stamped and off to peer review! may your journey be swift and pleasant! 一路平安 ئاق يول بولسۇن ཕེབས་ལམ་དཀར་པོ།

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.

The “American Century” sacrificed millions of people, built a comically unequal world, and planted the political seeds of its own destruction. We should not expect a Chinese version to be any better. www.un-diplomatic.com/p/against-ch...

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

Jesus Christ