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If Americans start producing steel in their backyards the US will soon exceed the EU and catch up with the PRC.

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Our new module is up! In it, we offer some perspectives on the challenges of doing research in and on China these days, specifically the ways in which various authors have grappled with the ethical and epistemic dimensions of studying China.

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TFW you discover that you’ve added the same item to your todo-list three times the last month. If I had the self-discipline to follow a productivity method I wouldn’t need a productivity method. I’d just do the things and be done with them.

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Dear #chinese #cooking #lazyweb, can anyone recommend a good recipe for gluten-free dumpling skins?

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a good HBO adaptation of Plum in the Golden Vase 金瓶梅 is necessary for world peace

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I’m seeing a lot of people shocked and not used to this tone coming out of society’s leaders, whether political or business leaders, when they address Trump. Those of us who’ve lived in and reported from Moscow and Beijing though. We’ve seen this.

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Thread: I found data fraud in multiple clinical trials for generic drugs in China. I've seen limited coverage outside China of the recent controversy over 集采 — centralized procurement of drugs, especially generics. It is a hugely important issue close to my heart.

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#China #photography 📷 Koen Wessing (1942-2011) 'Beijing, 1985'

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1/ American photographer Austin Bell’s latest project involved shooting each of Hong Kong’s 2,549 outdoor basketball courts, the fruits of which come together in a book, Shooting Hoops. Photos: Austin Bell/Blue Lotus Gallery.

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state media like People's Daily and Xinhua chimed in to celebrate this as a 'global village' moment (2nd most trending topic on xhs), as if the past 20 years didn't happen... hello? you're the guys who banned people in China from using US social media apps alright

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Age yourself with your first computer. I still have it in storage somewhere, including CRT monitor, tape deck, original packaging and manuals.

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Age yourself with your first computer

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Transitioning from one platform to yet another, made visible in seventeenth-century style from Jan Gillisz. van Vliet. It's good to see you made it. Welcome. And don't forget to have a second life at #Mastodon. Because you'll never know how long this platform lasts - and who might buy and ruin it.

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I’m reading Lao She 老舍 short stories, and, man, I think i’m gonna need trigger warnings, so far I’ve got an execution, a crushed skull, a mother and new-born dying from dereliction of duty, implied non-consensual sex. The contrast with the breezy language and the grim events is a bit jarring.

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”Zero Day”, a Taiwanese tv-series about a PRC invasion is going to be interesting to watch when it’s released. Here’s a link to the 17 minutes long trailer (Chinese with English and Chinese subtitles). m.youtube.com/watch?v=iAnZ...

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Hong Kong film icon Chow Yun Fat in a video promoting his current photo exhibition. Wonderful HK street scenes and interesting description of his method using old medium and large format lenses on a modern (very expensive) medium format digital camera. m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDkk...

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一路走好 Obituary by Liu Yuan family, Cui Jian and all the members of the band. On the right, detail of an iconic photo, Liu Yuan and Cui Jian on Tiananmen Square in 1989.

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#China #Shanghai #photography ‘Visiting a Shanghai Modernist' My trip to Shanghai in May 1990 took place a year after the Tiananmen student hunger strike. It was also the first time I was 'invited to drink tea' 被喝茶 by the police. Writer Shi Zhecun 施哲存, Shanghai, May 1990 ©📷 @gblee.bsky.social

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“[Zhuangzi] enables Daoist-inspired critics to convince people of the silliness of most public figures and all pompous roles. If one is trying to be a model governor or a high-minded minister, such needling can be hard to take …

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I overheard a customer at the local boardgame store looking for a gift for “an adult that likes history, politics and high interaction games with bluffing”, the salesperson recommended several new-ish SF&F games while STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO A PILE ‘DIPLOMACY’ BOXES. 🤷

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A nice interview with Tong Yang-Tze on her calligraphy in general and the works at the Met in particular. (In Chinese with English subtitles) m.youtube.com/watch

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This is an interesting list of papers from the EHR “that have exerted an important influence […] on their own thinking, or on their fields of scholarship”. What would you put on a similar list for sinology / China Studies? academic.oup.com/ehr/advan…

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And now, the Egyptian phrase of the day: ḏḥwty ʿꜢ ʿꜢ ʿꜢ wr ("Thoth great great great greatly" - i.e. "Thrice-Greatest Thoth"... i.e., "Hermes Trimegistos").

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The tools for data science (R + markdown, CRAN, tidyverse, ggplot, emacs, Zotero) are really nice. Data ingestion, mangling, writing, pdf-export Just Work™, even when I complicate things by using emacs instead of RStudio. I could get used to working with this… Too bad I’m not a data scientist.

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Well there was the time nobody stopped me from translating a haiku as a limerick

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Woah, big if true!

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The “phone mirroring” functionality of the new Mac OS update finally allows me to use Pleco on my laptop and I can feel my life getting better by the minute.

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