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I am delighted and honored to have been awarded the American Academy for Arts and Sciences' Sarton Prize for the History of Science! Many thanks to the countless people whose support helped make this possible. www.amacad.org/news/victor-...

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How Trump foreign policy in Europe has already weakened US position vis-a-vis China. A thread, following Thailand's refoulement (illegal deportation of asylum seekers) of Uyghur men who fled there in 2014. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/w...

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Thailand deports dozens of Uyghurs to China despite torture fears

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I won't be in London on 5 May, but if I was, this is where I'd go (due to how much I like the works I've read by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social and never heard him speak in public) howtoacademy.com/events/rober... --here's hoping I'll get a chance to hear him someday in California...

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The first books on Burma & Thailand, respectively, that had a deep impact on me were Finding George Orwell in Burma & Siam Mapped, so having the author of each blurb my forthcoming book, which deals with both places (details about it here globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi...) means so much

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I'm so glad that both Emma Larkin and Thongchai Winichakul, authors from whom I have learned so much about Burma and Thailand, have written endorsements (see below) for The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, coming June 10 from @columbiagr.bsky.social

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Very excited to be able to share, via this publisher's message, two blurbs for my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book, my first to deal with Thailand & Burma; the endorsements are from Thongchai Winichakul & Emma Larkin, both mean a lot to me myemail.constantcontact.com/---Coming-so...

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Extremely exciting and very timely #NewBook alert on the #MilkTeaAlliance. Should be of interest to scholars of transnational activism and anti-authoritarian movements around the globe!

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I'm so glad that both Emma Larkin and Thongchai Winichakul, authors from whom I have learned so much about Burma and Thailand, have written endorsements (see below) for The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing, coming June 10 from @columbiagr.bsky.social

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Very excited to be able to share, via this publisher's message, two blurbs for my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book, my first to deal with Thailand & Burma; the endorsements are from Thongchai Winichakul & Emma Larkin, both mean a lot to me myemail.constantcontact.com/---Coming-so...

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April 10, I'll be speaking at Northeastern, for the first time, previewing ideas from my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book due out in June www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-move... (also in April, related talks at Luther College in Iowa and at Pomona, maybe also in Minnesota, details TK)

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Mail call @dearclarissa.bsky.social @jwassers.bsky.social @melissakchan.bsky.social

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Talking in DC next Tuesday 25 Feb, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center. Free and open to all, but registration essential via QR code at bottom of this pic (or go to Krieger School website)

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UCI events w/ @badiucao.bsky.social & @melissakchan.bsky.social eve of March 3 humanities.uci.edu/events/china... & March 5 at noon humanities.uci.edu/events/badiu...

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Waterstones has a sale on through Monday, including of an incredibly timely new title from @brixtonink.bsky.social, a new imprint to watch (I’m biased as they brought a book by me, but I’ve read several other titles of theirs and each has impressed me & given me food for thought

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Waterstones has a sale on through Monday, including of an incredibly timely new title from @brixtonink.bsky.social, a new imprint to watch (I’m biased as they brought a book by me, but I’ve read several other titles of theirs and each has impressed me & given me food for thought

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📚 🛒 25% OFF NEW BOOKS Form 22-24 February, Waterstones is offering 25% off a selection of books, including World to Come by Mathew Burrows and Josef Braml, for those following the link below and using the code PREORDER25 at checkout! https://buff.ly/3EW0K6i

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Waterstones.com is offering a special 25% off our upcoming title World to Come: The Return of Trump ... Visit their website and use this code PREORDER25 to get your copy of this timely publication on the consequences of the Trump presidency. Hurry! Offer ends on Monday! @waterstones.bsky.social

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UCI events w/ @badiucao.bsky.social & @melissakchan.bsky.social eve of March 3 humanities.uci.edu/events/china... & March 5 at noon humanities.uci.edu/events/badiu...

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On March 8 @badiucao.bsky.social & @melissakchan.bsky.social will be at @wendemuseum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/you-must-t... —they’ll also be at UCI March 3 (evening) & March 5 (midday) events, & at UCLA for a March 3 event w/ @bairuiwen.bsky.social www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

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Here is a 6 minute video excerpt that previews some themes in my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book on The Milk Tea Alliance, edited excerpt from @davidstroup.bsky.social’s event with me in Manchester m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQn... cc @xunlingau.bsky.social @mekongreview.com

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Last month, I did a fireside chat w/@davidstroup.bsky.social of the University of Manchester on Vigil & the video team there did an extraordinary job w/the filming of the whole event & creating short thematic segments (well edited, some with added visual materials) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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👇 @drsusanliebell.bsky.social @johndelury.bsky.social

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Back in January I had the great pleasure of hosting @jwassers.bsky.social for a chat about the new edition of his book, ‘Vigil: The Struggle for Hong Kong‘ at the MCI. You can now watch our conversation here: youtu.be/FCput3z1ji0?...

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Here is a 6 minute video excerpt that previews some themes in my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book on The Milk Tea Alliance, edited excerpt from @davidstroup.bsky.social’s event with me in Manchester m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcQn... cc @xunlingau.bsky.social @mekongreview.com

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Well worth a listen. Hadn’t been aware of the role of ‘Do you hear the people sing’ in the Hong Kong protests - and the Cantonese version: 問誰未發聲 - Who hasn’t spoken out yet.

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Last month, I did a fireside chat w/@davidstroup.bsky.social of the University of Manchester on Vigil & the video team there did an extraordinary job w/the filming of the whole event & creating short thematic segments (well edited, some with added visual materials) www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Flattered my book Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, on identity and Xi Jinping's China, is on @foreignpolicy.com 's list of most anticipated books for this year with a lot of great-looking China books coming out too! foreignpolicy.com/2024/12/31/2...

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“At least two human rights organizations that are China-focused but are based here in the U.S. and have received U.S. funding in the past tell NPR they have already been approached by people linked to the Chinese government who are offering to introduce them to new, China-based funders.”

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Congratulations to GHOSTROOTS author 'Pemi Aguda and ORWELL'S GHOST author Laura Beers (@fieryparticle.bsky.social) a on becoming @latimes.com Book Prize finalists! GHOSTROOTS is a finalist for The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and ORWELL'S GHOST is a finalist for the Biography award.

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New event! 📆23rd & 24th Feb Book store book punch in Hong Kong is holding talks, charity sale & discussion sessions to mark the 3rd anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

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Still thinking about these conversations. Ground-level and interdisciplinary, this ”Facts Under Fire” conversation was really illuminating. I was inspired by colleagues around the world who are working for communities’ health and dignity.

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Ching Kwan Lee is always worth reading on any topic she turns her attention to, so I have been looking forward greatly to reading this long in the works book of hers on her native city (due out this summer) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

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Happy to see that, despite it not coming out until June, the first Good Reads rating of my 2nd @columbiagr.bsky.social book is up: 4 stars (out of 5) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... /no reviews, but I look forward to those as I've enjoyed those for my 1st CGR book www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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Delighted to receive a package of bound galleys of my forthcoming book, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide. Out in August.

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Happy to see that, despite it not coming out until June, the first Good Reads rating of my 2nd @columbiagr.bsky.social book is up: 4 stars (out of 5) www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... /no reviews, but I look forward to those as I've enjoyed those for my 1st CGR book www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

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This Culver City event should be good, March 6 @wendemuseum.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/why-histor...

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Very excited about @melissakchan.bsky.social & @badiucao.bsky.social coming to SoCal to talk about their graphic novel collaboration, w/a stop at UCI (details TK) and an event at one of my favorite museums, Culver City's @wendemuseum.bsky.social on March 8 www.eventbrite.com/e/you-must-t...

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please read and share. 🙏 to colleagues for this and to @rgoodlaw.bsky.social & @corrarino.bsky.social for putting it out in the world for us.

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