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and yes i fully understand that i'm using the time here which one might argue i could instead using to reply to some emails but no i refuse to accept that reality

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 7d

I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 8d

No.

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you!

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 10d

I will talk about my book project on a Chinese social credit system tomorrow noon in New Haven. Join me if you are around (I think they provide free lunch...)!

The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social · 10d

Tomorrow! Join us for Prof. @cliu.bsky.social's (@northeasternu.bsky.social) talk about:

"Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System"

📅 Thu., Oct. 2, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405

DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 10d

The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 10d

I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 15d

Wow undergrads really love Winner’s paper and hate SCOT…

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 16d

I spent a year in several Chinese government bureaucracies studying bureaucratic politics, but I never felt as though I were living in a Kafkaesque world as much as I have during just three months at my university.

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Marianne von Blomberg @mariannevblomberg.bsky.social · 17d

It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Techno-Orientalism in the U.S. Media: The Case of "China's Social Credit System"

The portrayal of China's Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens' every step proliferates

papers.ssrn.com

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 21d

Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.

www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families | Annual Reviews

US immigration policies have profound impacts on immigrant families. In a robust field of study across disciplines, scholars have documented how the multi-layered, complex immigration regime opens and...

www.annualreviews.org

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 24d

How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

China as an Analytical Lens for AI and Society

How can "China" serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence's and society? This commentar

papers.ssrn.com

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 26d

Ah sorry to hear that :/

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks! Exciting indeed.

Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you Dan!

Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 29d

Next week, @fuzheng.bsky.social and I will workshop our paper on public perception of AI evaluation in China based on a national survey. If you are at NYC - come and say hi!

Larry Au @larryau.bsky.social · Sep 10

🗞️ NYC-area researchers, come join us for the TASKS (Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society) Workshop this Fall. Papers on AI governance, self-tracking devices, air pollution and climate change, and Chinese investment capital in the US.

🔗 More info: tasks.commons.gc.cuny.edu

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thank you!

Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · Sep 11

Thanks!