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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Apr 16

Critical China Scholars, Understanding China and Resisting Sinophobia in 2025: An Introductory Syllabus - positions politics

As China’s influence grows on the world stage, the specter of China looms ever larger in the political machinations of the US and its allies, while the promise of China as an humane alternative contin...

BDS Korea, Manse to Intifada: A Report on March 1, 2025 from Palestine Peace Solidarity in South Korea - positions politics

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Apr 13

Obviously, Kilmar Abrego García must come home now. But let's not forget that NOT ONE of the people whom the Trump administration sent there should be there. THAT is a violation of any basic right to due process. They all have to come back.

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Apr 7

New on praxis in positions politics, BDS Korea, Manse to Intifada: A Report on March 1, 2025 from Palestine Peace Solidarity in South Korea
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Known as the March First Independence Movement, an unprecedented wave of mass protests with people shouting tongrip manse (long live independence) swept across Korea on March 1, 1919. On this day, rel...

Gail Hershatter, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance - positions politics

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Apr 3

New on praxis in positions politics, Gao Xiaoxian: A Short Remembrance by Gail Hershatter

I first met Gao Xiaoxian in 1992 at a conference at Peking University, but even before that I had heard about her extraordinary work with the Women’s Federation and her deep knowledge of life in the S...

Chris Chien reviews Florence Mok, Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97 - positions politics

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Mar 27

I hear a lot of liberals outraged for the Signal chat. Shouldn't we first and foremost be outraged that we are bombing Yemen? (Hint, we cannot be, because Biden did that too.)

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Mar 24

New on praxis in positions politics, Chris Chien reviews Florence Mok's Covert Colonialism.

Covert colonialism: Governance, surveillance and political culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966-97. Florence Mok. Manchester University Press, 2023. ISBN: 9781526158192. Price: £85.00 | Reviewed by ...

Fan Yang, Back to the Future: A Walk through Huaqiangbei in 2025 - positions politics

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Mar 17

New in praxis on positions politics, Fan Yang, Back to the Future: A Walk through Huaqiangbei in 2025
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As someone who grew up in Shenzhen in the 1980s-1990s and has lived in the US since 2000, I’ve come to see returning to the Special Economic Zone today as a journey “back to the future.” During my las...

Seuty Sabur, This is not my Revolution: Aspiration, Erasure, and the Political Field in the Post-July Uprising Bangladesh - positions politics

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Mar 11

New on praxis in positions politics, Seuty Sabur, This is not my Revolution: Aspiration, Erasure, and the Political Field in the Post-July Uprising Bangladesh

On the morning of July 18, 2024, our phones were suddenly flooded with images of injured students – our campus was under attack. Students protesting the nationwide escalation of police brutality again...

episteme issue 11: China and Histories of the Working Class

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Feb 26

New on episteme in positions politics, china and histories of the working class
positionspolitics.org/episteme-11/

episteme issue 11 explores Chinese labor history through class consciousness, labor activism, and worker democracy from the late-Qing period to the post-Mao era. I would like to mark the recent passin...

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Feb 21

Truly one of the stupidest things I have read so far. It is historically ridiculous both in the analysis of the CR (from the psychologizing of Mao to the recovery of Richard Solomon) and in the comparison itself.

China Studies and the NatSec Gamble

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Feb 12

Nick Zeller on the past and present of China Studies (and the National Security Apparatus)

There's dwindling money for China research. University faculty can try to revive an ugly old bargain or build something new.

uscnpm.substack.com

What's now called for in every classroom.

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Feb 9

Worth a read

The Higher Ed Frontline

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Jan 31

New on praxis, in positions politics, Lilian Kong and Shiqi Lin, “Hello My Chinese Spy, Take My Data”: Welcome to the Playground of the Digital Cold War
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Lilian Kong and Shiqi Lin, “Hello My Chinese Spy, Take My Data”: Welcome to the Playground of the Digital Cold War

On January 12, 2025, just days before the short video platform TikTok was pressured to shut down in the U.S., a sensational “migration” began. Millions of American internet users flocked to the Chines...

Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Dec 5

Everyone should be sharing this story about the Amnesty International report because yes many of us have long acknowledged that it’s a genocide but there are still people who need the validation of a report from an org like Amnesty to believe it’s true zeteo.com/p/amnesty-co...

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Nov 20

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With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast | Owen Jones

An economic populism for the majority – irrespective of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation – is the way forward, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Nov 11

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant.

I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester.

Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

black and white photo of Wong Kim Ark, American of Chinese descent. He is looking straight at the camera.

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Nov 16

Proving that @darrenbyler.bsky.social was right.

How Chinese firm linked to repression of Uyghurs aids Israeli surveillance in West Bank

Cameras made by Hikvision, which is blacklisted in US, blanket the occupied West Bank, according to Amnesty International

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Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Nov 1

Fabio Lanza @lanzafab.bsky.social · Oct 28

Please do this
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/cal...