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👇 @gideonrachman.bsky.social @asianstudies.org

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New piece that looks at the latest season of “The White Lotus,” an early production (not made by Hollywood) that brought about a rise in tourism to Thailand—& some things about the country both left out asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/The-...

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A 🧵 on my very short (but long in the works) book on youth activists in Thailand & exiles from Hong Kong & Burma (aka Myanmar) that comes out in just a few weeks (details here globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi... ), June launch events coming up in NYC on the 9th, DC 10-13th, L.A. June 28th

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A 🧵 on my very short (but long in the works) book on youth activists in Thailand & exiles from Hong Kong & Burma (aka Myanmar) that comes out in just a few weeks (details here globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi... ), June launch events coming up in NYC on the 9th, DC 10-13th, L.A. June 28th

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Jeffrey Wasserstrom writes about his forthcoming book about the Milk Tea Alliance and the threads that connect protest movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Thailand https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/2025/05/14/opposing-autocracy-in-hong-kong-and-southeast-asia/ #MilkTeaAlliance #Thailand […]

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Proud of Ting Guo’s first book talk _Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China_ at the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library 利銘澤典宬, University of Toronto! I read all the drafts and saw how much work she put into writing it,

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Excerpt from new @stephenplatt.bsky.social book out in China Books Review chinabooksreview.com/2025/05/15/t...

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Happy to report that I've got a new book out, The Raider.

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While the whole world seems to be all hot and bothered by the AI boom, I offer a slightly different take. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...

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Check out the new @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social piece by a top translator of Chinese fiction as well as writer on and teacher of courses about Chinese film & fiction @bairuiwen.bsky.social, on troubling experiences with AI in two spheres of his career lareviewofbooks.org/article/ai-n...

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Looking forward to heading to this dinner at Chang Chang, right near JF Books, after I launch my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book at that special bookstore on June 10 (a perfect way to end a pub day) www.exploretock.com/changchang/e...

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Fascinating piece on the representation of Thailand in White Lotus Season Three, by @burrata.bsky.social via @asianstudies.org #AsianNow blog www.asianstudies.org/the-farang-g...

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Our @theconversation.com article ends with: “A world in which the smartphone in your pocket both keeps track of your actions and provides an endless set of enticing distractions.” 9011 reads in four days! @jwassers.bsky.social @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

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The People's Republic of China is a rare example of a "Big Brother" state where Orwell's work is widely read. So, what does Orwell mean in China? Join us live in London with @jwassers.bsky.social, @isabelh.bsky.social and Cindy Yu. www.orwellfestival.co.uk/booking/p/ch...

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Looking forward to heading to this dinner at Chang Chang, right near JF Books, after I launch my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book at that special bookstore on June 10 (a perfect way to end a pub day) www.exploretock.com/changchang/e...

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Fascinating piece on the representation of Thailand in White Lotus Season Three, by @burrata.bsky.social via @asianstudies.org #AsianNow blog www.asianstudies.org/the-farang-g...

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From “A River Runs Through It,” by Norman Maclean, to “All of Us,” by Raymond Carver, the best-selling author and professor Robert Macfarlane recommends four books about rivers.

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From Sunflowers to Umbrellas to Hong Kong in 2019, Thailand in 2020, and Burma in 2021 (excerpted from the Taiwan edition preface to my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book) blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... (thanks to Verna Yu for the helpful edits) cc @fromtga.bsky.social @wendemuseum.bsky.social

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New event! 📆9th June 🕕6pm Eastern Time Young China Watchers NY host @jwassers.bsky.social for book talk "The Milk Tea Alliance: Inside Asia's Struggle Against Autocracy and Beijing" www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-ny-the...

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Visiting London and having a sight of Senate House Library in London today, which inspired George Orwell in his creation of the Ministry of Truth in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Please check our arricle for more! @jwassers.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

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Thank you to all who attended our book talk about 𝘈 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘋𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘏𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘒𝘰𝘯𝘨, to our speakers Florence Mok, @adonismyli.bsky.social and @allanpang.bsky.social, and to David for support organising. More info: hkupress.hku.hk/New_Doc_Hist... (use 20CP2025 for 20% off until 21 May)

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In the past I've enjoyed "Young China Watchers" group events in Hong Kong and London, drew really interesting groups of people (wasn't sure based on the name but excellent), so looking forward to these NYC www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-ny-the... & DC www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-dc-hon... events June 9 & 11

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👇 @haymarketbooks.org @grantamag.bsky.social @theguardian.com

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My latest blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... (gives a good feel for themes in my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book, which publishes June 10, available for preorder now, will launch at JF Books in DC on the pub date)

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Looking forward to this June 9 event in New York www.eventbrite.com/e/ycw-ny-the...

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From Sunflowers to Umbrellas to Hong Kong in 2019, Thailand in 2020, and Burma in 2021 (excerpted from the Taiwan edition preface to my new @columbiagr.bsky.social book) blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... (thanks to Verna Yu for the helpful edits) cc @fromtga.bsky.social @wendemuseum.bsky.social

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Hong Kong to Thailand to Burma, latest for @soasuni.bsky.social China Institute blog blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... (with a shout out to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social —fitting as she’s an author important to the Bangkok activist press I have a lot to say about in my new book)

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My latest blogs.soas.ac.uk/china-instit... (gives a good feel for themes in my forthcoming @columbiagr.bsky.social book, which publishes June 10, available for preorder now, will launch at JF Books in DC on the pub date)

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📢 2025 Orwell Prize Finalists Announced! The Orwell Prizes celebrate the year's best political writing and reporting, inspired by George Orwell's values of clarity, courage, and fidelity to truth. Explore this year's shortlists & judges’ reflections: open.substack.com/pub/orwellfo...

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Tant de bons moments passés à lire les livres de Lynn Pan, et notamment 'Old Shanghai - Gangsters in Paradise', le meilleur récit sur la vie de Du les Grandes Oreilles, mais aussi 'Sons of the Yellow Emperor', un pionnier du genre, ou encore l'érudit et passionnant 'When True Love Came to China'...

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Happy Publication Day, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social! No Straight Road Takes You There is now available wherever good books are sold (or you can request it from your local public library)

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My written tribute to Lynn Pan www.shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-... --pairs very nicely with this lovely audio one Duncan Hewitt did a bit ago that features @chinarhyming.bsky.social, Frances Wood, and Michelle Garnaut podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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I'm so glad that the good people at The Shanghai Literary Review gave me a chance to write a tribute to my late friend Lynn Pan, it just went up online here www.shanghailiterary.com/tslr-online-... (with nods to M on the Bund, Michelle Garnaut, Pallavi Aiyar, Elizabeth Perry & @amitav.bsky.social )

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👇 @boingboing.net @nilsgilman.bsky.social

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Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World should be read in tandem to understand today’s troubled times theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... --a piece I co-wrote, cc @prospectmagazine.co.uk (for which, ICYMI, I wrote this earlier this year www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/6898... )

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In a short piece, @atasoyemrah.bsky.social and I nod in passing to contemporary writers like @margaretatwood.bsky.social & @greatdismal.bsky.social but focus on the continued relevance of not just Orwell but also Huxley for thinking about today's troubled times theconversation.com/nineteen-eig...

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Happy pub day to Stephen R. Platt of @umassamherst.bsky.social who keeps writing lively and stylish as well as carefully research historical works on China, in the past on the Qing era but now on WWII: bookshop.org/p/books/the-... cc @ncuscr.bsky.social

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“Orwellian hard-edged and Huxleyan soft-edged approaches to control and social engineering can be and often are combined.” theconversation.com/nineteen-eig... @jwassers.bsky.social @uk.theconversation.com

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This afternoon at 5:00pm, book talk by Zoom

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