全糖半糖微糖無糖我都可以，反正就是一定要去冰 | solidarity with protesters against the ICE terrorists, solidarity with americans against the fascist US state (in taiwan when we order drinks we say 去冰 to ask for no ice)

People are calling this post a godtier opener for 2026 because it captures the undeniable tension in the patriarchal institution of marriage in China. The post has got over 1.3M likes within a day, and has been censored and uncensored for over 5 times. As of now OP’s account has also been banned.

You might not think you want to read anything from the Journal of Critical Accounting, but this essay about how the fascist state seized control of Italy's University of Ferrara feels highly relevant: impoverish a school, destabilize it with regulation, then buy it out. doi.org/10.1016/j.cp...

Just got back to the department and this was the center of the conversation-in-progress in the Asian Studies office; strongly considering de-Canvasifying my spring course (as well as other things I won't post about). Highly recommended, thanks Matt and @ehayot.bsky.social

Tidying up the Pokémon clone I made with the kid last spring and all of a sudden realized what I want to bring to the new year

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘] In an exclusive essay, Nick Admussen reads the game 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎𝐱𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓 through immunity and memory, situating trauma, gender, and forgetting within the history of Hong Kong protest and the Chinese diaspora. @nadmussen.bsky.social ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/17/1... 。。

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘] In an exclusive essay, Nick Admussen reads the game 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝟎𝐱𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓 through immunity and memory, situating trauma, gender, and forgetting within the history of Hong Kong protest and the Chinese diaspora. @nadmussen.bsky.social ⧉ 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝: chajournal.com/2025/12/17/1... 。。

"To these detectives of digital inauthenticity, I say: Friend, welcome to a typical Tuesday in a Kenyan classroom, boardroom, or intra-office Teams chat. The very things you identify as the fingerprints of the machine are, in fact, the fossil records of our education."

Live your life in a way that earns a hate-tweet from Donald Trump when you’re gone.

A comprehensive look at the current situation in transnational Chinese surveillance, anticorruption, and suppression of perceived opponents

This is what @thepoetslizard.bsky.social and I are facing at Via Negativa, a literary blog with nearly 15,000 posts. We might have to password-protect our archives just to keep the site from being taken offline www.glamelab.org/products/are...

Another impressive piece on China from @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/the... --Eleanor Goodman translation of reportage by Zheng Xiaoqiong

Love to see China's anti-work culture getting the global recognition it deserves

Miss you. Would Like to Take a Walk With You by Gabrielle Calvocoressi www.divasofverse.com/2025/02/miss...

My colleague, Dr. Vahid Abedini, was illegally detained by ICE on Saturday. He is currently being held without a court date in sight, despite being in the country legally. Please spread the word! We must ensure his due process rights are upheld. www.oudaily.com/news/ou-prof...

Looks like they have created a roadmap to reboot the NRC/FLAS/Hays grants? Makes the wave of layoffs that is currently flowing through area studies and language education programs seem especially meaningless: www.state.gov/releases/off...

“Adversarial poetry.” Love this. Obvs.

Wrote a history of twentieth-century Chinese poetry for the Oxford Research Library (doi.org/10.1093/acre...). It's sadly subscription-only, but feel free to DM/reply/email if you want access. Also serves as a "what's in the Anglophone field" narrative bibliography, good to populate reading lists.

Terrance Hayes, born on this day in 1971

'Skeleton Wearing a Top Hat Playing the Shamisen for a Small Dancing Yōkai' (circa 1870) Kawanabe Kyōsai

Truly, we all win if regular people think less like economists and more like the prison journalist who writes poems about butterflies.

Reportage in the Chinese Speaking World can now be pre-ordered from University of Michigan Press: press.umich.edu/Books/R/Repo...

One political party, made up of people with lots of different ideologies, who share a commitment to elite impunity. Trump is its leader; Epstein is its spiritual guide.

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

“No matter what job I did, I didn’t achieve anything and I couldn’t do it for long. Then I kept covering up the pain, which made me worry about my own self-worth.” Rebecca Liu profiles gig worker Hu Anyan, whose memoir has been translated into English by Jack Hargreaves.

Eliot Weinberger, “The Life of Tu Fu” #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

“When I die, I will come in fast and low. I will stick the landing. There will be no confusion. The dead will make room for me.” Richard Siken #poetry #booksky @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social

Sun Peidong has a new book out, with interviews of leading French historians/sociologists/anthropologists of China -- notably a lengthy interview of Marianne Bastid-Bruguière that is bound to be fascinating www.routledge.com/Unfiltered-R...

always thinking of this Louise Glück poem

If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org? www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good — if that’s not nice, what is?

Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang. chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...

𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to László Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity. www.facebook.com/AsianCha.Jou...

The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔 www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...

Heard this song played live behind a sandwich shop in Danby, it's been running through my head ever since: sarahnoell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont... "In my dreams I'm sleeping on a train to Brooklyn miss my stop on purpose join you at the circus I want to have your baby haven't called you lately..."

This comic strip by Rivi Handler-Spitz v. much captures the situation and feelings of a lot of Chinese students in the U.S. right now, and ends in a hope I share, that the rest of us will value their contributions and fight for their right to be educated. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today

Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

"Here," the writing teacher said. "Try reading this story by Ling Ma instead of thinking about law school right now." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

If the makers of Tylenol bought enough Trumpcoin, they’d be telling us that it prevents autism.

🎨 Huang Yongyu (1992)

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

1/THREAD: @AP has published our investigation into how US tech firms enabled China’s digital police state. We obtained multiple, massive leaks of internal and classified Chinese government and corporate documents running into the tens of thousands: apnews.com/article/chin...

Islands by Muriel Rukeyser

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...