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Religion, gender, politics in transnational Asia. @shichapodcast.bsky.social cohost. JAAR book review editor. @asianstudies.org Diversity and Equity Committee rep. She/her/伊/佢

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Jun 18

On (post) #secularism, #nationalism, #gender politics under Xi vs Mao, love for #authoritarianism and intersectional love in minor transnationalism:

Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Jun 18

Can love hold a nation together—or hold it down? In her new book, @tingguowrites.bsky.social uncovers how Chinese leaders from Sun Yat-sen to Xi Jinping have harnessed the language of love—universal, ardent, paternal—to stir hearts, shape ideology, and legitimise power across a century.

Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China: A Conversation with Ting Guo | Made in China Journal

Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China (Amsterdam University Press, 2025) examines how the language of love (愛 ai) has been appropriated and politicised by Chinese pol...

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Kate Reilly @katereilly.bsky.social · 23h

Our film, Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down 夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗, will leave Hong Kong Netflix on October 27! If you've been meaning to watch it as part of an all-you-can-eat experience, and don't need English subtitles, this is your last chance. If you do need English subtitles ...

The final poster for Hong Kong film Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down 夜香・鴛鴦・深水埗

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 1d

My first ever talks in Holland coming up soon/Leiden Oct 22, this in The Hague on Oct 23 leidenasiacentre.nl/event/jeffre... & Nowhere bookstore in The Hague on Oct 24. (Btw, I’ve long found lots of value in What’s on Weibo by @manyapan.bsky.social so delighted to see the 23rd talk mentioned by her)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom on China, Protest and Asia’s Struggle against Autocracy - Leiden Asia Centre

China is changing the world—and the world is responding. In just a few decades, China has gone from isolated state to global powerhouse, reshaping politics, culture, and the fight for democracy across...

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Jessie Lau @laujessie.bsky.social · 12d

I wrote a story @theguardian.com about Zhang Yadi, a London-bound Chinese student and Tibetan rights advocate who was arrested over the summer on suspicion of “inciting separatism.”

If found guilty, she faces a prison sentence of up to 15 years.

Read the story, with comments from @hrw.org, below:

‘She didn’t realise how dangerous it was’: London-bound student held in China over Tibet support

Zhang Yadi was due to begin a degree in the UK but the activist vanished on holiday amid tensions over Dalai Lama

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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 3d

"Countless Yingzhis live among us, while the Zitaos of China are fading away with time. The tears of Chinese women, if unleashed, could drown a nation."
For @chinabooksreview.com, I write about gendered violence and illusions of liberation through two novels by Fang Fang (tr @bairuiwen.bsky.social):

No Country for a Woman | China Books Review

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite the Communist Party’s slogans about women’s liberation. Two novels by the Wuhan writer Fang Fang show how gendered oppression persis...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 3d

If in Seoul/ Korea: I’ll have the pleasure of discussing my book at the Institute for the Study of Religion, Sogang University on Oct 20 (Monday), 4 pm.

Fun fact: Sogang is director #parkchanwook’s Alma mater

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 4d

Thirty years after the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference, the Chinese government is once again calling on women to serve the nation, this time in science and technology. In this essay, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social revisits a century of women in science in China, tracing their struggles and achievements.

Beyond Representation: On Being a Woman in Science in China | Made in China Journal

In the autumn of 1995, Ye Shuhua made a speech. During the NGO Forum at the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, the 68-year-old astronomer took to the microphone and cal...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 5d

It’s not only China’s New Left but those in the west who favour and romanticise the “socialist intellectual tradition” post 89 or not.

Who’s the subaltern? The nation state? Or the marginalised within postcolonial nationalism?

新左和美化新左忽略真正被壓迫者的西方知識界

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 5d

Frequent labor movements in China contradict Wang’s claim. It's not the lack of “development,” but the state machinery - in "constant adjustment" - that suppresses. The New Left evades and alienates the very subject of leftist critique: the working people and their lived experiences & voices

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 5d

Wang Hui: "But...this expected “revolution” [Occupy Wall Street] has not yet appeared in China...Why?...China is vast and regions are unevenly developed has ironically acted as a buffer in the context of the financial crisis... Second, China has actually been in a constant process of adjustment..."

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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 17d

Hong Kong’s labour minister has rejected a suggestion to mandate work suspension during adverse weather, after lawmakers raised concerns over employees' safety in the wake of Super Typhoon Ragasa. In full: buff.ly/IySFYEN

Hong Kong labour chief rejects suggestion to mandate work suspension under adverse weather | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

Hong Kong’s labour minister has rejected a suggestion to mandate work suspension during adverse weather, after lawmakers raised concerns over employees’ safety in the wake of Super Typhoon Ragasa....

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · 19d

My tribute to Paul Cohen as historian & mentor to many www.asianstudies.org/in-memoriam-... cc @lmansley.bsky.social

In Memoriam: Paul A. Cohen (1934-2025) - Association for Asian Studies

Paul A. Cohen, who died on September 15, 2025 at the age of 91, made significant contributions to both the interdisciplinary field of Chinese studies and the discipline of history. The most obvious wa...

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 18d

What happens when queer desire, religion, and science fiction collide in space? In Jesus on Mars, Cui Zi’en offers a haunting, dreamlike story that moves between faith and fantasy. One of China’s most daring queer voices brought to new readers in Yahia Ma's translation.

Jesus on Mars | Made in China Journal

(Translated and introduced by Yahia MA) I first experienced Cui Zi’en’s work in mainland China in the early 2000s, when I was an undergraduate at a university in the country’s northwest and was becomi...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · 27d

“… people who organize strikes at the production plant so that tanks are never built, and people who convert weapons factories into spaces that nurture and sustain life.”

Maura Elizabeth Cunningham @mauracunningham.bsky.social · 28d

"Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears." At @dissentmag.bsky.social, @yangyangcheng.bsky.social writes on authoritarianism and resistance.

To Outlive Tyranny - Dissent Magazine

Flesh and blood alone cannot halt the advance of iron and steel. To stop the tanks, we need people to place blocks on the road and throw sand into the gears.

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Sep 3

Typo, *elimination of dissent

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · Jun 9

🧵 To commemorate the 120th anniversary of Anna May Wong’s birth, @asiancha.bsky.social invites reviews of four recent books—that together explore her groundbreaking career, cultural legacy, and challenges to race, gender, and representation in performance.If interested, please email [email protected].

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 1

Only one of the smartest, most perceptive journalists ever to cover China. Snatch Shen Lu up quick. @shen-lu.bsky.social

Shen Lu
@shenlulushen
Along with amazing colleagues, I've been laid off from the @WSJ in NY as it reshapes its China coverage.
Grateful to colleagues and readers who taught me so much. I'm excited (and a bit nervous) to explore what's next—please get in touch with opportunities, ideas and tips!
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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

When I took a job in HK frds worried abt the political situation for me. But it’s often not official orders that create a hostile or dangerous environment, but personal antagonism or self interest utilising political situation. My experience was similar to that of Chong’s and it’s not a coincidence

Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Sep 2

In her Facebook statement, the playwright Candace Chong Mui Ngam 莊梅岩 cautioned against private attacks, purges, & eliminations of dissidents under the name of National Security Law. A very Cultural Revolution moment in Hong Kong:

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · Aug 27

Hardship has long been praised in China as the road to virtue and success. Today’s youth are beginning to question this tradition, linking the pressures of school with the exploitation of labour and asking whether hardship should still be seen as a moral ideal. An essay by @humayun.bsky.social.

In Praise of Hardship, or the Labour-Schooling Poetics of Chinese Youth | Made in China Journal

In January 2025, I was chatting online with a few friends about the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a factory for Chinese carmaker BYD in Brazil, which had just come under scrutiny...

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Russell T. McCutcheon @mccutcheonsays.bsky.social · Aug 25

This week on Wed. Dial in. It’s important. @aarweb.bsky.social

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The Future of Doctoral Programs – AAR

The AAR’s Academic Relations Committee has been engaging the topic of the future of Religious Studies; in this month's webinar we would like to focus on the future of doctoral programs and how they ma...

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Memories of Hui Muslims during the Great Leap Forward: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3GpOPnOw-8...

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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · Aug 22

u.osu.edu/mclc/2025/08...

Backreading Hong Kong 2025 — cfp
August 22, 2025
by [email protected] at 8:41am
CFP – Backreading Hong Kong Symposium: Anglophone and Sinophone
November 17-18, 2025
University of Toronto
Call for Abstracts
Deadline: September 7, 2025

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Ting @tingguowrites.bsky.social · Aug 26

Tammy Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social: The Monkey King’s Diasporic Reassemblage in Sinners:

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The Monkey King’s Diasporic Reassemblage in Sinners, by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

While the Monkey King’s on-screen presence in Sinners is barely longer than a minute—a fleeting interlude within a dense, two-plus-hour southern gothic tapestry—it still resonates. In her review, Tamm...

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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · Aug 9

New event!
📆30th Aug - 5th Oct

@seajunction.bsky.social hold exhibition "Portraits of the Anonymous: Breaking Gender Stereotypes in Myanmar Spring Revolution" at the BACC pop-up in MunMun Art Destination

Details:
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Portraits of the Anonymous: Breaking Gender Stereotypes in Myanmar Spring Revolution
August 30 @ 10:00 am - October 5 @ 8:00 pm
This exhibition, featuring the work of Myanmar artist Lily, was born out of solidarity with the people of Myanmar that has been fighting for democracy since the coup d’état led by General Min Aung Hlaing on 1 February 2021. Within a matter of days, youths and older people from all walks of life began to pour onto the streets in outrage and protest against the military. Since then, for almost five years now, the population has been demanding the restoration of democracy and the release of the imprisoned leaders and all other political prisoners in spite of the military’s use of lethal force.

Their resistance has come at a heavy price. As of 22 July 2025, 6,980 people have been confirmed killed by the junta, and a total of 29,417 people have been arrested, with 22,193 currently detained, and 172 people have been sentenced to death. 620 children have been arrested and 856 children killed (AAPP). The number of displaced people in the country and across borders is over 3 million and growing as young people leave the country to escape from forced conscription in the army.

This art exhibition, previously exhibited by SEA Junction, speaks about a collective history of women artists who were part of the Burmese Spring Revolution, vividly memorialising their struggles, strengths, labours, and often forgotten contributions. The series is entitled “Portraits of the Anonymous”, in reference to the quote adapted from a line of writer Virginia Woolf: “ For most of history, anonymous was a woman”. Women who were among the crowds of photographers who documented the military coup remain invisible and anonymous to these days, yet many women lens-based practitioners, from photographers and filmmakers to photojournalists and artists, were on the frontline and took risks to cover the 2021 coup d’état. Against the background of coup-wise images, shot by each pa…

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