Thanks to Yao Lin's reappraisal of my 2022 article "Blood Is Thicker Than Water," I have written a response "Blood Is Still Thicker Than Water." I am grateful to Lin and find this exchange productive. Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=675...

Xiang Zhou (Harvard Sociology) and I are recruiting two postdoctoral fellows through the An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard’s Fairbank Center. The theme for 2026–27 is the Social Foundations of State Power in China. Deadline: January 15, 2026. fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/affiliation-...