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damiandamiani.bsky.social
Postdoc at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social #ChinaComx working on politics in/of lianhuanhua | PhD @uni-freiburg.de on political study practices in China (1950s-1980s) | researching intersections of state socialism, visual culture, propaganda, and everyday life
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C’est le premier livre sur le sujet!

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Look at this new work of art I made yesterday. 😂 One thing that often happens is people get very confused about what is wuxia, xianxia, and xuanhuan due to lack of understanding about the terms. So I made this venn diagram to help. 😂

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

So you know that asteroid Bennu? The one that might hit Earth in 2182 CE. Someone went ahead at simulated what that's going to do to climate and ecology. Want to guess what the outcomes were? (hint: it will help lower surface temperatures) 🧪⚒️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

«With rapidity that has stunned even longtime political observers, forces loyal to Musk’s junta have established him as the all-but undisputed unelected head of government in just a matter of days, unwinding the longtime democracy’s constitutional system ...» www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.

submitted 28 days ago • 53 comments

"A new website for the China Studies Digital Archives Mapping Project offers a free guide to open databases for China studies research, as well as a list of leading university libraries that offer services to unaffiliated scholars." www.acls.org/news/acls-ex...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Save the date: 24-26 April the #ChinaComx project welcomes to CATS @uniheidelberg.bsky.social for a hands-on workshop on all things Chinese comics! With keynotes by Barbara Mittler and Stephan Packard, and a dozen presenters & discussants, it is to treat lianhuanhua as research method. Details soon!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

1/ Why does the U.S. seem to be caught off guard so often by what China or Chinese companies accomplish? Here’s an off-the-top-of-my head thread unpacking some reasons—structural, cultural, and epistemological—for this recurring phenomenon.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Marketing Jiang Qing: Revolutionary, modern girl, and dangerous woman in Chinese left-wing cinema www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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Here’s the back cover of a 1980s lianhuanhua adaption series of William Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, for no particular reason…

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

DAVID LYNCH'S SUPERBOY 1/10

submitted 42 days ago • 20 comments

The most striking contrast between lianhuanhua and comics is perhaps their single panel nature: no gutter, no multi-panel vignettes, etc. The creation of an illusion of motion between the panels thus has a much more physical dimension: it occurs when literally flipping the pages one after the other.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

My text in @lawfare.bsky.social analyzing the current Polish political situation.

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Dozens of stakeholders have endorsed a Carbon Market Watch statement urging firms to replace the outdated and discredited 'carbon neutrality' model for climate action outside their value chains in favour of more honest and sustainable approaches. carbonmarketwatch.org/2025/01/16/d...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Biden’s Eisenhower moment: youtu.be/cyZoUfNsUl8?...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Why turn your brain to mush when you could be reading comics instead?

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

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submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

Deep, informative article on the #history of #environmentalism and #rightwing white nationalism. Have a look! #envhist www.propublica.org/article/john...

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

1/2 From a 1976 travelogue by a West German student in the PRC: "For those who are wondering how Lu Xun supported Chairman Mao's line, I can now reveal that while he was busy making revolution in Shanghai, he also had time to personally send two salted hams to the Chairman as proof of his support."

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Quite the change between a 1960s and a 2024 accurate visualization of the Megalosaurus, or more specifically, the Sinosauropteryx (中华龙鸟). When discovered in 1996, it was the first dinosaur fossil ever found with preserved feather-like structures; Stephen Brusatte has a great chapter on it.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments