Carwyn Morris
@carwynmorris.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more
Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics
PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU
Fashion https://www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon
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We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
AAS Vancouver Panel: Global Wanghong, Global China. I'm putting together a panel for the AAS on the global nature of wanghong and how it helps us understand a global China. If you wish to participate send me a title and abstract by end of day July 17: cm89 [ at ] soas . ac . uk
July 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
AAS Vancouver Panel: Global Wanghong, Global China. I'm putting together a panel for the AAS on the global nature of wanghong and how it helps us understand a global China. If you wish to participate send me a title and abstract by end of day July 17: cm89 [ at ] soas . ac . uk
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf
drive.google.com
June 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here:
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
drive.google.com/file/d/12srA...
Deadline is 21 July.
Looking to participate or co-organise an AAS Vancouver 2026 panel on internet fame, wanghong, or Xiaohongshu. If anyone is interested let me know.
June 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Looking to participate or co-organise an AAS Vancouver 2026 panel on internet fame, wanghong, or Xiaohongshu. If anyone is interested let me know.
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Today I had my first experience of seeing a paper (and to be clear: a research paper, not a student paper) cite a paper I'm a listed author on where that paper does not actually exist.
It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication.
*sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication.
*sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
June 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today I had my first experience of seeing a paper (and to be clear: a research paper, not a student paper) cite a paper I'm a listed author on where that paper does not actually exist.
It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication.
*sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication.
*sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
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📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #4 | CAPF
The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our fourth and final seminar event for this academic semester. For our final session, we will be having a book salon. This ...
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June 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
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Exciting! Folks in London, please mark your diary and come to listen to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social discuss her book The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social. @carwynmorris.bsky.social
A bit of planning ahead--for colleagues and friends who will be in London in Jan, please mark this for your diary. I will give a book talk on The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social SOAS China Institute on 26 January 2026 at 5 pm. See you!
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China
Dr Cora Lingling Xu will introduce key arguments of her latest book on 'The Time Inheritors: How Time Inequalities Shape Higher Education Mobility in China'.
www.soas.ac.uk
June 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Exciting! Folks in London, please mark your diary and come to listen to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social discuss her book The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social. @carwynmorris.bsky.social
Back in the UK, working at SOAS. Happy to travel across the British Isles and say hi/give a talk.
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Back in the UK, working at SOAS. Happy to travel across the British Isles and say hi/give a talk.
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Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...
doi.org
May 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies?
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047...
Some takeaways🧵1/8
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I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
www.bloomberg.com
April 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut."
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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📣 New book cover!!!!
INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE
Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.
It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social
Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE
Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.
It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social
Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
uclpress.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📣 New book cover!!!!
INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE
Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.
It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social
Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE
Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors.
It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social
Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised.
uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
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Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky?
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
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April 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky?
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing.
#digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
New Text Book Alert: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia, by Florian Schneider. It covers everything, including methods + key literature across disciplines & time periods. It also includes detailed guidance on setting up a gamified, XP focused course.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia
Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic...
www.aup.nl
April 17, 2025 at 8:38 AM
New Text Book Alert: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia, by Florian Schneider. It covers everything, including methods + key literature across disciplines & time periods. It also includes detailed guidance on setting up a gamified, XP focused course.
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Applications are now open to join the next generation of American China specialists as the ninth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP).
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027)
This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...
www.ncuscr.org
April 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Applications are now open to join the next generation of American China specialists as the ninth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP).
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
Deadline: May 11, 2025
Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
The Aquabats are one of the strangest and weirdly wholesome bands. Can't believe they've been going for over 30 years.
April 9, 2025 at 6:27 AM
The Aquabats are one of the strangest and weirdly wholesome bands. Can't believe they've been going for over 30 years.
Chinese companies have been scouting out the UK as a destination to counter/work around US tariffs for quite a while. I guess yesterday continues to make the UK attractive to Chinese capital.
April 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Chinese companies have been scouting out the UK as a destination to counter/work around US tariffs for quite a while. I guess yesterday continues to make the UK attractive to Chinese capital.
Hosting a #slowfashion and #artisan sample sale, trunk show, and collection preview this weekend in London. Come along and chat to me/us about ANYTHING. It's seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and Provision at 18 Iliffe Yard SE17 3QA
April 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hosting a #slowfashion and #artisan sample sale, trunk show, and collection preview this weekend in London. Come along and chat to me/us about ANYTHING. It's seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and Provision at 18 Iliffe Yard SE17 3QA
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IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION
Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]
Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]
March 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION
Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]
Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member:
Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800
Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]
✨TRUNK – AW25 TRUNK SHOW & ARCHIVE SALE ✨
Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision.
📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA
📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM
📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM
#slowfashion #fashion
Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision.
📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA
📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM
📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM
#slowfashion #fashion
March 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
✨TRUNK – AW25 TRUNK SHOW & ARCHIVE SALE ✨
Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision.
📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA
📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM
📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM
#slowfashion #fashion
Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision.
📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA
📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM
📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM
#slowfashion #fashion
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My first strike ever.
I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social
Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥
Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social
Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥
Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
March 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My first strike ever.
I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social
Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥
Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social
Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥
Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
new publication by the trendy @drliucao.bsky.social on wanghong consumption in Guangzhou. some of the early research was presented at a workshop we hosted in 2022 and it's great to see this out in the wild. after a week of fashion week research, I think I also have 'fashionable people phobia.'
If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
THE POLITICS OF WANGHONG CONSUMPTION: (Re)Making the Place through New Urban Aestheticisation
Why does seemingly innocent wanghong (online celebrity) consumption—recording appreciation for a place and sharing photos of it on social media platforms—cause neighbourhood changes and instigate exc...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
new publication by the trendy @drliucao.bsky.social on wanghong consumption in Guangzhou. some of the early research was presented at a workshop we hosted in 2022 and it's great to see this out in the wild. after a week of fashion week research, I think I also have 'fashionable people phobia.'
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And this Friday (the 7th), Yan Hairong speaking at IIAS, don't miss it!
www.iias.asia/events/chine...
www.iias.asia/events/chine...
Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative | IIAS
www.iias.asia
March 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
And this Friday (the 7th), Yan Hairong speaking at IIAS, don't miss it!
www.iias.asia/events/chine...
www.iias.asia/events/chine...
The brilliant @izading.bsky.social will be giving a talk at Leiden University on March 19th, discussing authoritarian teleology 🔥 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Looking forward to it.
Authoritarian Teleology
After the fall of the Soviet Union and the withering away of planned economies, the 20th-century literature on communism shifted decisively toward the 21st-century literature on authoritarianism. Iza ...
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March 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The brilliant @izading.bsky.social will be giving a talk at Leiden University on March 19th, discussing authoritarian teleology 🔥 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Looking forward to it.
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What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:
#ZISpotlight 💡
Frederick Crofts & Davide Martino on „The Age of Neptune“: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520–1650
www.zispotlight.de/frederick-cr...
Frederick Crofts & Davide Martino on „The Age of Neptune“: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520–1650
www.zispotlight.de/frederick-cr...
February 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:
Looking forward to this event
A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics
will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world.
Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.
will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world.
Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.
Asian Library
Announcement: The Chinese Queer Collection: A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025
Leiden University Libraries is home to a newly established...
edu.nl
February 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Looking forward to this event