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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · 7d

Excited to be featured alongside two scholars I truly admire, @jleibold.bsky.social and @robbiebarnett.bsky.social, in conversation with @rollandnadege.bsky.social.

"100 Years of CCP Borderland Policies." Please give it a listen (and maybe even assign to your undergrads?). tinyurl.com/yhktwu9h

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James Leibold @jleibold.bsky.social · 10d

1/3 I appear on Asia Insight (NBR) discussing “Documenting China’s Borderlands: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies.” Benno Weiner & Robert Barnett join. Listen (34m): podcasts.nbr.org/e/documentin...
@nbr.org @bennoweiner.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @latrobeuni.bsky.social

Documenting China’s Borderlands – Episode 2: A Hundred Years of CCP Borderlands Policies | Asia Insight

From the National Bureau of Asian Research, an Asia Insight miniseries exploring the geostrategic significance of China’s borderlands, led by Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow for China Studies at ...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Very cool to see my review of The Red Wind Howls is today's Semafor Flagship recommendation! tinyurl.com/sdz7btvs

Read it here in @chinabooksreview.com chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
Then go read the book!

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Remote Xuar @remotexuar.bsky.social · Sep 4

A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 5

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of the banned Tibetan novel, now in English, "The Red Wind Howls": chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 5

Yes, I write about this in my book, “The Chinese Revolution on the Tibetan Frontier”, but would love to learn more

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Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social · Sep 4

The Red Wind Howls, states @bennoweiner.bsky.social in this magnificent new review, "is a monumental literary achievement, an act of defiance that helps pierce a regime of forced forgetting."

Tsering Döndrup's magnum opus is now available in English — read it!

chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)

Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 4

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

chinabooksreview.com

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China Books Review @chinabooksreview.com · Sep 4

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao’s campaigns in the wake of the 1958 Amdo Rebellion.

Read Benno Weiner's @bennoweiner.bsky.social review of "The Red Wind Howls" by Tsering Döndrup: chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...

chinabooksreview.com

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 4

Please check out my review of Tsering Döndrup’s magnificent and important novel, *The Red Wind Howls* (tr. Chris Peacock) in @chinabooksreview.com
(then read the book!)

Thanks to editors @alexludoboyd.bsky.social and @alecash.net

chinabooksreview.com/2025/09/04/i...
@columbiaup.bsky.social

Ill Winds In Tibet | China Books Review

A banned Tibetan novel, now published in English, recounts the devastation of Mao's campaigns in the wake of the Amdo Rebellion of 1958.

chinabooksreview.com

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow!
@remotexuar.bsky.social

Remote Xuar @remotexuar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇

We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!

www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

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Remote Xuar @remotexuar.bsky.social · Aug 26

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇

We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week!

www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

Also of Inner Asian note:
-Huatse Gyal on Shannon Ward's Amdo Lullaby
-Giulia Cabras on @geraldroche.bsky.social Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet
[email protected] on Matthew Kapstein's 2 vol. Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Tibetan Books

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Advance Publication | Journal of Asian Studies | Duke University Press

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy to see the advanced publication of my review of Yudru Tsomo's history of 20th C Kham, *Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors* is now available from The Journal of Asian Studies. tinyurl.com/2wckc72w

Chieftains, Lamas, and Warriors: A History of Kham, 1905–1961

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Sep 1

CFP: Joint Conference of the Historical Society for 20th Century China and the Institute for Modern History, Academia Scinica
Deadline: October 15

Please note that papers/panels can engage any aspect of China and/or Taiwan's long 20th Crntury
All the info: hstcconline.org/announcements/

Announcements

Call for Papers International Conference Jointly Organized by the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China and the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica Taiwan Reframing Modern Histori…

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 12

We're thrilled to see @bennoweiner.bsky.social's review of "At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China" by Edward Wong has been nominated for a 2025 Kukula Award! Read his review here: lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Aug 12

👇Note to those working on China, one of the two short lists includes @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social (for his @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social essay on the biography of Liu Xiaobo) and the other includes @bennoweiner.bsky.social (for his @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social essay on @ewong.bsky.social 's book)

Washington Monthly @washingtonmonthly.com · Aug 12

The Washington Monthly proudly announces the finalists of the 2025 Kukula Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Book Reviewing:

The Washington Monthly Announces Finalists for 2025 Kukula Award Book Review Prize | Washington Monthly

Kukula Award book review prize honors exemplary nonfiction book reviewing that elucidates key issues of our times.

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Aug 12

Happy to be recognized as a finalist for the @washingtonmonthly.com's Kukula Ward for my review of @ewong.bsky.social's At the Edge of Empire. Sincere thanks @jwassers.bsky.social, @bspivey.bsky.social, and @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
Read the Review 👇
lareviewofbooks.org/article/stra...

Straining Nation or Expansionist Empire? | Los Angeles Review of Books

Benno Weiner reviews Edward Wong’s “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

lareviewofbooks.org

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Jul 23

"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is."

Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:

Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence

I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201

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Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social · Jul 23

Job Announcement: History/Anthropology of Science, Technology and Medicine.

The Department of History at Carnegie Mellon seeks to hire up to two scholars at the rank of assistant and/or associate professor.

Please share and note Sep 15 deadline! Happy to answer Qs
apply.interfolio.com/170040

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Jun 26

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

For Zohran,
You teach us how to engage the world in difficult times. May you inspire many and blaze a trail!
It’s like a path across the land—it’s not there to begin with, but when lots of people go the same way, it comes into being.
—Lu Hsun, “Hometown”

From the dedication page of Mamdani, Mahmood, "Neither Settler nor Native : The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities," Harvard University Press, 2020

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · Jul 5

Thanks @robbiebarnett.bsky.social for referring to work by @bennoweiner.bsky.social and me for this ChinaFile discussion on the Dalai Lama’s succession www.chinafile.com/conversation...

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Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson.bsky.social · Jun 27

As part of our efforts to include the erased histories of all ethnic groups in China, @minjianarchives.bsky.social
newsletter today discusses a key work of Uyghur resistance: A Land Drenched in Tears. This is also our first trilingual newsletter!
chinaunofficialarchives.substack.com/p/a30?utm_ca...

《被眼泪浸湿的土地》：一部维吾尔族“右派”的苦难史

The Land Drenched in Tears: A History of Uyghur “Rightists”

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Amdo Research Network @amdoresnet.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thank you to all the participants of the 5th International Amdo Research Network workshop at the University of Leeds. Looking forward to continuing our conversations at IATS next summer in Kathmandu!

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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · Jun 14

🪖 I dunno man. Just, like, suddenly wanted to share photos of the time I covered Kim Jong Il's Pyongyang military parade from 2010. Enjoy!

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