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My book Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong 1910-45 is out in paperback now 😁 It's now only £29.99 (and a further 20% off discount with the code HIST1525) at shorturl.at/15uJU . Really pleased that it received positive reviews on outlets eg H-Diplo, AHR & Journal of Social History!

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Only one member of the broadcaster’s vaunted Uyghur language service remains.

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Absolutely correct. Did DOGE kids who cut funding for VOA even know they were killing our best sources for news on authoritarian Asian countries at the same time? Killing RFA cedes info space to PRC, is really hurting US, not to mention Uyghurs, Tibetans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...

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Just saw Sinners (incredible movie! Go see it) MILD SPOILERS: Anyone have a sense of the Chinese language Remmick was attempting? Was it meant to be Canto (that sounded unfamiliar to me either because his delivery wasn't great and/or my Canto is also not great?)

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I miss the DEI planes, which held themselves together

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Same energy of Uyghur camp tour influencers

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Tariffs may not be new, but the "quiescence of Congress" certainly is, and is particularly concerning right now given the historical reality that past radical tariffs led to economic depressions. www.historians.org/perspectives...

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"they also don't care about your way of life" is a total lie. they're obsessed with your way of life! they vote and speak in loathing of your way of life! small-town red America obsessively focuses on other ways of life

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I hope all anti-PRC Chinese, Tibetans, Uyghurs, and HKers start seeing Marco Rubio as the political opportunist & fraud that he is.

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everything is gender continues to prove true in the neoreactionary fascism of the US

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And please, NO ONE say X or Y is worse. ALL of these kinds of mass internment should not exist, okay?!

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He sent a woman to prison and took her visa for writing an op ed

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👇 Really great to see an extended review by @jmchatwin.bsky.social that pairs discussion of both @tsmullaney.bsky.social's influential instant classic The Chinese Typewriter and his impressive and engaging new book on The Chinese Computer

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Compare with China, a famous photo of Uyghur internment camp detainees first published by a Xinjiang government social media account in 2017

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This is the biggest similarity that trump and rubio’s offshore prison has with Chinese laogai and Uyghur prisons. There is no actual legal procedure that is understandable and that people can navigate here. They put you in there and it’s a black box.

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👇👇

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I'm glad they did this and better late than never. But it would have been nice is this spine evolved when a racist mob came for the university's first Black woman president.

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Tomorrow! I'm on with the friends from China and Taiwan - the great Lucy Hornby, Scott Kennedy, Michael Szonyi, and Mark Dreyer www.csis.org/events/repor...

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Xi jinping is indifferent to some economic suffering because he was doing it before tariffs. I expect wages for manufacturing workers to tank and things being more pressure cooker like I also expect some foreign policy analysts to have dipshit takes like Chinese people think suffering is noble

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Yes folks should apply

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My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

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Wong Kim Ark explicitly dealt with a guy whose entry into the US was presumed to be illegal.

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👇 @dgtam86.bsky.social (an excellent speaker as well as writer)

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Readers of San Antonio! Come hear me talk about The Dream Hotel at the Book Festival this Saturday! In conversation with Dalia Azim at 2.30 pm. ☀️📚

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This was easily one of the most incredible opportunities and experiences in my life. It is hard to express or quantify how much it enriched my professional and personal life. I'm happy to talk to/help out anyone interested in applying! www.ncuscr.org/applications...

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I get why it's popular now to compare Trumpism 2.0 to the Cultural Revolution. but it still feels a problematic and trivializing analogy when you actually look at the scale of killing, torture, and violence in the CR, with an estimated death toll of millions. from ordinary people to

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Deeply disappointing to see this coming from Mary Gallagher.

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"A senior NEH official, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, confirms to NPR that among the 145 staff members – 80% of the staff – placed on administrative leave are people from communications, program officers and directors." bit.ly/3R4tgWw

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A Chinese woman detained by U.S. border officers for overstaying a visitor visa died by suicide while being held at a border patrol station in Arizona, said Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, who is a ranking member of the House subcommittee overseeing immigration.

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This is a GREAT, albeit rather depressing, point. Another excellent reason (not that we need one) to have a panel (or many panels) on gender studies, dissent, protest, and/or combinations of these topics

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Anyone want to invite me to be on a panel for #AAS2026? I can happily contribute to a panel on women’s history, gender studies, activism, democracy, Hong Kong studies, labor movements, women in politics, gender and law, or anything even tangentially related! Let me know!

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"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

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Racism! The US decided to throw away the global talent magnet because too many Black and Brown people were being pulled into it. "Fit of pique" is an exonerating phrase that doesn't allow us to grapple with how we got here.

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Every part of this is senseless and destructive.

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"For the Chinese who strive for democratic values but contend with an authoritarian state, their role model is tearing itself down. 'Beacon of democracy, 1776-2025,' wrote a commenter on a post by the official Weibo social media account of the U.S. Embassy in China" www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/b...

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Some news many years in the making: My book EMPIRE OF AI, out May 20, is ready for pre-order at empireofai.com. It tells the inside story of OpenAI as a lens for understanding the moment we’re in: the tech elite's extraordinary seizure of power and its threat to democracy. 1/

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University professors beginning to coalesce. Still no collective action by universities (that would protect them from Trump attacks on academic freedom or funding). Here's a growing call for university administrations to recall their purpose and respond collectively. www.newenglandscholarsspeak.org

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I can’t stress how big of a deal these arrests are. It is a bald attempt to destroy universities, scapegoat immigrants and eliminate freedom of speech. It is how authoritarians gain power. And while I think immigrants and universities matter in their own right, they will not stop with them

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