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Author, historian, China scholar. Between Philly and NYC. Weekly words @ https://tinyurl.com/bdecudb4 Books: Champions Day: https://tinyurl.com/yrxk942f Heart of Buddha https://tinyurl.com/3kh5pav8 Creating a Chinese Harbin https://tinyurl.com/3vw9s48u
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Want a quick sense of what my new short @columbiagr.bsky.social book on resistance & repression in Asia 2014 to 2024 is about? Check out this excerpt of the audio book www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Ec... (dedication page + Introduction) or watch this brief video www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQn...

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🧵 on Jonathan Spence. He was supportive of me early in my career at important moments and is on my mind today since my new book shares a publication date today with the new edition of his @wwnorton.com classic The Search for Modern China, this edition co-written by his former student Janet Chen...

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👇 In two days. I’ll also bring up Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (2020). Seems fitting with Joshua Wong in the news again with new charges leveled against him (he also figures in the new book via an abortive 2016 trip to speak in Bangkok & his 2020 protest outside the Thai consulate in Hong Kong)

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The @johnbatchelor.bsky.social show is doing an eight part discussion of my book on Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping. The first two parts are already available. Thanks John for your really interesting reactions to my book: audioboom.com/posts/873193...

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Our homestand continues tonight when the @frederickkeys.bsky.social come to town with #PSE&G Postgame Fireworks, Boomer Bucket Hat from #CapitalHealth & an #MCIA Magnetic Schedule! #FeelTheThunder⚡ x go.trentonthunder.com/tix

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Beautiful night on the Delaware for another season of @trentonthunder.com baseball

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Spooooky here In jersey

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Late to the game with Andor but…Cousin Richie is in the rebellion?!

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srsly, @cnn.com

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A great old China read - Franklin Carl in Vogue on Shanghai’s social scene, 1924… www.chinarhyming.com/2025/05/08/s...

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Wore my UVA 1974 hat to the farmer’s market in Iowa & was asked what it meant. “Ah, it is for the first fully coeducational class in the history of the University of Virginia,” I said. “Not until 1974?” He replied. “Yeah. Many moments, like the 1 we are in now, are ridiculous in hindsight,” I said.

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Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

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I know this one. The Constitution of the United States.

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Glad to see this! Growing up in Danbury, Ludington (Luddinfton?) got basically equal billing to Paul Revere in the elementary school curriculum. Should be more well known

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Interview with China Minutes, in which I talk about Sinophagia, horror literature and my work on Chinese cultures. chinaminutes.com/2025/04/25/x...

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My latest for the Sinica pod channel This Week in China's History: The Shanghai Massacre and the White Terror www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

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From 2 years ago, This Week in China's History on the Chinese survivors of The Titanic, based on @greatwriteshark.bsky.social 's fantastic documentary, The Six thechinaproject.com/2023/04/12/t...

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Exciting delivery at the CGR office! Early copies of THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE: Inside Asia’s Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, by @jwassers.bsky.social 📣 on sale June 10, but available for preorder now--> globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi...

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My collections Destination Shanghai, Peking & now Macao, all from Blacksmith Books - the series bundle is here - all 3 for HK$328 (saving you HK$86) - that's over 1,000 pages of old China stories!! www.blacksmithbooks.com/books/paul-f...

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Ok, who wants to write about The Pitt for @nursingclio.bsky.social? Astonishing show.

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Dr Peeper was right there….

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Excellent thread. I agree that this interview is worth a listen, and that Eisgruber is doing important work. It doesn’t solve all (any?) of the problems—to put it mildly—but he lays out a defense of higher ed that all of us in higher ed can use and apply

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Finally, the text every parent wants to get from their child at school:

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

A clearinghouse for gathering info on NEH (see second post) and a toolkit for advocacy. ⬇️

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I hope I may speak for my fellow historians of the Great Depression when I say: you do not want our expertise to be relevant

submitted 88 days ago • 102 comments

I can’t overemphasize how great an opportunity this is, even more so as mutual understanding and expertise is more threatened than ever

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🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 88 days ago • 228 comments

A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

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I have not been to Macau in 20 years, but it's a unique place that defies many (not all!) assumptions about colonialism and cosmpolitanism. A mini potted history this week... This Week in China's History: The Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

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