Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing)
@ericderoulet.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition.
I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.
https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/
無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats.
https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/
無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
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[REVIEW] “Taiwan’s Political Evolution and the Study of Comparative Politics as seen in 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Eric D. de Roulet
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (editors), Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization,…
chajournal.blog
I have a little book review out in @asiancha.bsky.social on Taiwan in Dynamic Transition by Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (eds.), mainly on how the anthology treats Taiwan as a country worth understanding in its own right and not merely as a subject of great powers conflict.
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Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
December 3, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Had our first graduate thesis defense of the academic year here at Duke - for Yueqi Chen's absolutely lyrical ethnography on nurses' aides working in public hospitals in Hunan, China.
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
Sharing, with permission, a beautiful passage from Yueqi's thesis which I found really moving:
#everynightapoem
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Reminder the Chinese space program was founded by a Chinese-American genius McCarthyism put under house arrest for years and then deported
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reminder the Chinese space program was founded by a Chinese-American genius McCarthyism put under house arrest for years and then deported
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
Journalism on higher education is truly in an incredible state these days
The administration is extorting universities for billions of dollars and attempting to destroy free speech, academic freedom, and independent thought but the Atlantic talked to a few professors at elite universities who think the problem is that some students need a little extra time on exams
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Journalism on higher education is truly in an incredible state these days
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Great to see @lausanhk.bsky.social's account of the Wang Fuk tragedy 🕯️✊
Tai Po in flames - Lausan
How Hongkongers are reviving mass action and mutual aid in the wake of the deadly fires in Tai Po.
lausancollective.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Great to see @lausanhk.bsky.social's account of the Wang Fuk tragedy 🕯️✊
A choice epithet for a few present-day regimes too, perhaps
absolute goat rodeo of a dynasty
December 1, 2025 at 3:35 AM
A choice epithet for a few present-day regimes too, perhaps
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The Worst Field Trip Ever, more commonly called the Tumu Crisis. Imagine being kidnapped by Mongols, but your empire isn’t all that fussed about paying the ransom so eventually you get sent home, where you find out the subcelestial realm preferred it when you weren’t there.
December 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
The Worst Field Trip Ever, more commonly called the Tumu Crisis. Imagine being kidnapped by Mongols, but your empire isn’t all that fussed about paying the ransom so eventually you get sent home, where you find out the subcelestial realm preferred it when you weren’t there.
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This poor graduate student (who was the course instructor), being harassed for doing their job.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This poor graduate student (who was the course instructor), being harassed for doing their job.
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the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them
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this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
November 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.
-Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These
#everynightapoem
it's necessary to talk about trees.
Attended a webinar today on (mainly the many hazards of) doing research-for-writing in this AI-inundated age. I'm back to thinking about how cognitive offloading has been a fundamental and costly feature of humanity's technological advancement. Plato himself had a fair bit to say on the matter.
December 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Attended a webinar today on (mainly the many hazards of) doing research-for-writing in this AI-inundated age. I'm back to thinking about how cognitive offloading has been a fundamental and costly feature of humanity's technological advancement. Plato himself had a fair bit to say on the matter.
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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Frankly a lot of you owe me some money for being assholes and expecting me to teach you for free but I’d rather you toss money at Hong Kong www.spca.org.hk
Home - SPCA
Pet adoption: adopt a homeless pet (dog or cat) or pets from animal shelters. SPCA has helped with millions pet adoptions since 1903.
www.spca.org.hk
November 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Frankly a lot of you owe me some money for being assholes and expecting me to teach you for free but I’d rather you toss money at Hong Kong www.spca.org.hk
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I've spent the past few days on Hongkonger Threads, reading the live updates & online discussion of LOCALS. People on the ground providing support, assistance, and recording the events that unfold.
NO ONE is looking at the government or elected officials for leadership. Hongkongers don't need them.
NO ONE is looking at the government or elected officials for leadership. Hongkongers don't need them.
November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I've spent the past few days on Hongkonger Threads, reading the live updates & online discussion of LOCALS. People on the ground providing support, assistance, and recording the events that unfold.
NO ONE is looking at the government or elected officials for leadership. Hongkongers don't need them.
NO ONE is looking at the government or elected officials for leadership. Hongkongers don't need them.
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While Hongkongers are mobilizing to get beds, student's textbooks, curtains, baby formulas, missing pets to survivors of the Tai Po Hung Fuk fire, western-centric discourse are quick to paint us as "backwards, unscientific, unsafe"...
and I have zero patience for this racist bs.
and I have zero patience for this racist bs.
November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
While Hongkongers are mobilizing to get beds, student's textbooks, curtains, baby formulas, missing pets to survivors of the Tai Po Hung Fuk fire, western-centric discourse are quick to paint us as "backwards, unscientific, unsafe"...
and I have zero patience for this racist bs.
and I have zero patience for this racist bs.
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A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources. In full: buff.ly/Uzgm1Oj
HK man arrested for alleged sedition in relation to fatal Tai Po blaze
A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A HK man has been arrested on suspicion of sedition in relation to the fatal Tai Po fire, according to local media reports, citing unnamed sources. In full: buff.ly/Uzgm1Oj
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i do believe that covid plus LLMs have had appreciable negative effects on university students, but i find claims like 'there is an across the board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and connect with others' to be completely ridiculous
November 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
i do believe that covid plus LLMs have had appreciable negative effects on university students, but i find claims like 'there is an across the board inability to process instructions, engage with longer texts, and connect with others' to be completely ridiculous
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I’m quoted in the Wall Street Journal discussing US ambiguity towards Taiwan.
Thank you kindly @joyuwang.bsky.social for reaching out!
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Thank you kindly @joyuwang.bsky.social for reaching out!
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Trump Is Silent on Taiwan After Talking to Xi—and That Is Fine With Taipei
Taiwan is making the most of the U.S.’s policy of “strategic ambiguity,” even as President Trump’s stance raises concern for some.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I’m quoted in the Wall Street Journal discussing US ambiguity towards Taiwan.
Thank you kindly @joyuwang.bsky.social for reaching out!
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Thank you kindly @joyuwang.bsky.social for reaching out!
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Posted for @asianstudies.org members and those interested. If anyone's still looking for another opportunity to participate in #AAS2026 in Vancouver, here's an idea:
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Posted for @asianstudies.org members and those interested. If anyone's still looking for another opportunity to participate in #AAS2026 in Vancouver, here's an idea:
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I don’t know how much it must be said and why so-called international media seems to be so bad at it even now, but talk to Hongkongers about what is happening Hong Kong, not “experts” thousands of miles away
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I don’t know how much it must be said and why so-called international media seems to be so bad at it even now, but talk to Hongkongers about what is happening Hong Kong, not “experts” thousands of miles away
Posted for @asianstudies.org members and those interested. If anyone's still looking for another opportunity to participate in #AAS2026 in Vancouver, here's an idea:
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Posted for @asianstudies.org members and those interested. If anyone's still looking for another opportunity to participate in #AAS2026 in Vancouver, here's an idea:
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Some classical Chinese ghost stories have been well-loved by English readers, despite the orientalist perspectives that accompanied their 19th century translations, so I was glad to be asked to introduce this classic collection, and in a way, culturally reclaim these works of Chinese literature. 4/
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Some classical Chinese ghost stories have been well-loved by English readers, despite the orientalist perspectives that accompanied their 19th century translations, so I was glad to be asked to introduce this classic collection, and in a way, culturally reclaim these works of Chinese literature. 4/
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My #SFF curations get more traction, but I'm primarily a nonfiction author. During #nonfictionnovember, I'm spotlighting this output. Starting with #books. This sociocultural guide to deities was a crazy endeavour of telling the stories of 60, I'm delighted with its wide and lasting impact. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My #SFF curations get more traction, but I'm primarily a nonfiction author. During #nonfictionnovember, I'm spotlighting this output. Starting with #books. This sociocultural guide to deities was a crazy endeavour of telling the stories of 60, I'm delighted with its wide and lasting impact. 1/