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* #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford) & *The Heart of Time* (Harvard) Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru 雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social Care ethicist @FairbankCenter #PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
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I'm trying to build a feed that highlights the diverse voices in the literary world, particularly those involved in literary translation (all language combinations). So, #literarytranslators out there, help me complete this #starterpack and let me know if you'd like to be added. go.bsky.app/SurjbAj

submitted 199 days ago • 30 comments

"The marketplace of ideas doesn’t reward credentials. It rewards perceived authenticity, preternatural confidence, and the ability to perform." — Brian Morrissey www.therebooting.com/r/138db64f?m...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

There used to be a social democratic faction in the CCP. Time to rehabilitate that tendency, introduce welfare to put a floor under wages, discourage excessive saving and increase consumption.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Created a Taiwan Studies Starter Pack for folks coming from Twitter. Let me know if you ought to be on here! go.bsky.app/TG2GBbz

submitted 200 days ago • 19 comments

One of my current projects explores #non-Han #fiction & #poetry. On the former, I wrote an article for *World #Literature Today*. I've given talks on the broader project. I'm open to giving more. 🀄📚 www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january...

submitted 199 days ago • 9 comments

I need to pick a couple of these up! Five Books: Short Stories from Taiwan, recommended by Sabina Knight fivebooks.com/best-books/s...

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I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

submitted 51 days ago • 1058 comments

We are now at the point where the AP can write this as if its a simple background fact and it sparks no outrage: "Trump has made no secret of his plans to use the power of the federal government to target domestic political adversaries."

submitted 50 days ago • 181 comments

#Friends (#Quaker) Retreat Center Pendle HIll suffered "devastating damage" in a storm. Consider #giving a donation to repair the damage done to the land and buildings. @pendlehillusa https://pendlehill.org/donate/

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Update: I've submitted multiple appeals. No answer. Can anyone help me reverse X's #censorship? ( #Chinese #dissidents and others still use X. )

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

Never met Prof. Gregory in person, but I’ve learned so much through his books, especially _Tsung-mi and the Sinification of Buddhism_ and _Sudden and Gradual _. All students of Chinese Buddhism in the anglophone world live in his shadow. The end of an era.

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Q: Why do I want my "suspended" X account back? A: Expressions of concern matter. My @SangBina #X account is my only way to reach many vulnerable #Chinese, #Uyghur, & #Tibetan individuals & orgs. I want to ask them how they are doing. I want to ask them what I can do to help.

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 199 days ago • 1208 comments

Noncompliance is a powerful weapon! Czechoslovakia’s velvet revolution, after Soviet invasion in ‘68 When a Soviet comes to you 1. Don’t know 2. Don’t care 3. Don’t tell 4. Don’t have 5. Don’t know how to 6. Don’t give 7. Can’t do 8. Don’t sell 9. Don’t show 10. Do nothing.

submitted 76 days ago • 16 comments

I'd add: Authoritarianism doesn't always look like you think it does. The image is a public constantly straining under the chains of oppression, but it is very possible for the majority to enjoy comfortable, affluent lives while freedoms like speech are eroded, and others face blunter oppression.

submitted 131 days ago • 12 comments

“In 5 to 10 years, every American citizen will have the equivalent of an Einstein on their phone … what if that Einstein is a Chinese one? <smirk>” Does he think Einstein 1 was born in Ohio?

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

There was a lot of rhetoric on Capitol Hill this week about the so-called AI race with China. This particular utterance from former Google CEO and billionaire investor Eric Schmidt during a House Energy & Commerce hearing on AI and competition stood out.

submitted 54 days ago • 4 comments

This @ncuscr.bsky.social PIP program transformed my career. My #PIP #training and #community allowed me to leave my tenured, full professor position to work as a writer and public intellectual.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

This @ncuscr.bsky.social PIP program transformed my career. My #PIP #training and #community allowed me to leave my tenured, full professor position to work as a writer and public intellectual.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/09/r... Astonishing death rates and brutal abuse have not kept troops from following orders.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

🌎 🇺🇸-🇨🇳. BREAKING: Trump🇺🇸🇷🇺 threatens China🇨🇳 with new additional tariffs of 50%. He will impose additional tariffs on China from tomorrow, if Beijing does not withdraw its 34% retaliatory tariffs on the US. The additional tariffs on Beijing would be of 50%, Trump says. www.bbc.com/news/live/ce...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment