Melissa Chan
@melissakchan.bsky.social
Emmy-nominated reporter. Russia Today called me “notorious,” China kicked me out. Formerly Asia, Doha, California, more 🌏. Author of graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION out now!
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📺 A clip from our MSNBC segment. @badiucao.bsky.social and I are honored that our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION joined Ali Velshi's Banned Book Club! Thank you again to @velshi.bsky.social for the invitation! 🔗 GRAB YOUR COPY: www.melissachan.com/revolution
Thank you to @miamibookfair.bsky.social for the invite, the @degrootfoundation.bsky.social for your support and sponsorship, and Charlie Kochman for leading a great conversation! What amazing memories. 💥 GRAB YOUR COPY, GIFT A COPY of our book, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION: streetnoisebooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Thank you to @miamibookfair.bsky.social for the invite, the @degrootfoundation.bsky.social for your support and sponsorship, and Charlie Kochman for leading a great conversation! What amazing memories. 💥 GRAB YOUR COPY, GIFT A COPY of our book, YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION: streetnoisebooks.com
🤯 OMG we made it onto NPR's annual Books We Love list! 💛 GRAB YOUR COPY of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION from your favorite indie bookshop (or Amazon, B&N, Bookshop, etc.)! Consider gifting it to someone for the holidays!
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
🤯 OMG we made it onto NPR's annual Books We Love list! 💛 GRAB YOUR COPY of YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION from your favorite indie bookshop (or Amazon, B&N, Bookshop, etc.)! Consider gifting it to someone for the holidays!
Met and chatted with Art Spiegelman for three minutes in the authors’ lounge at Miami Book Fair and that’s the tweet. An absolutely amazing dude. 🫨
November 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Met and chatted with Art Spiegelman for three minutes in the authors’ lounge at Miami Book Fair and that’s the tweet. An absolutely amazing dude. 🫨
🌴 Miami we're here! At the @miamibookfair.bsky.social! Come say hi this Sunday @ 12 pm, Room 8106. Charles Kochman, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams ComicArts will be moderating our talk!
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
🌴 Miami we're here! At the @miamibookfair.bsky.social! Come say hi this Sunday @ 12 pm, Room 8106. Charles Kochman, Editor-in-Chief of Abrams ComicArts will be moderating our talk!
Don't mean to feel exasperated, but Germans will happily go to Bali for months for a yoga sabbatical but god forbid they're in another tropical paradise for a few weeks to learn job skills for the 21st century. ⬇️ Everything wrong with the European economy, right here:
🇩🇪🇹🇼 German workers do not want to work at Taiwanese firms, "which may require employees to travel to Taiwan for weeks or months of training... Mr. Tu estimated that he needed to hire 20 locals. So far, he said, he does not have a single German employee."
Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Don't mean to feel exasperated, but Germans will happily go to Bali for months for a yoga sabbatical but god forbid they're in another tropical paradise for a few weeks to learn job skills for the 21st century. ⬇️ Everything wrong with the European economy, right here:
🇩🇪🇹🇼 German workers do not want to work at Taiwanese firms, "which may require employees to travel to Taiwan for weeks or months of training... Mr. Tu estimated that he needed to hire 20 locals. So far, he said, he does not have a single German employee."
Europe’s Chip Dreams Confront Business Realities
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
🇩🇪🇹🇼 German workers do not want to work at Taiwanese firms, "which may require employees to travel to Taiwan for weeks or months of training... Mr. Tu estimated that he needed to hire 20 locals. So far, he said, he does not have a single German employee."
Trump's numbers are tanking and he knows Mamdani's a winner and inviting him to the White House creates a positive association. Mamdani needs to make sure Trump won't send federal troops into NYC. As the Chinese would say, this meeting is a win-win.
November 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Trump's numbers are tanking and he knows Mamdani's a winner and inviting him to the White House creates a positive association. Mamdani needs to make sure Trump won't send federal troops into NYC. As the Chinese would say, this meeting is a win-win.
Thank you to @alecash.net and the team at @chinabooksreview.com for excerpting our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION which the magazine calls "a dark read which pulls no punches." ⬇️ TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NEWLY EXCERPTED PAGES:
The Revolution will be Illustrated | China Books Review
In a graphic novel depicting a dystopian future Hong Kong, three former democracy activists struggle to come to terms with a dark new reality.
chinabooksreview.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Thank you to @alecash.net and the team at @chinabooksreview.com for excerpting our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION which the magazine calls "a dark read which pulls no punches." ⬇️ TAKE A LOOK AT THESE NEWLY EXCERPTED PAGES:
Happy publication day to HYBRED, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena! @badiucao.bsky.social and I were so honored to be asked to read it and blurb it! We love this graphic novel. Congratulations to all!
November 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Happy publication day to HYBRED, by Jamie Mustard and Francesca Filomena! @badiucao.bsky.social and I were so honored to be asked to read it and blurb it! We love this graphic novel. Congratulations to all!
So great to see our book mentioned in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social article looking at publishers who support marginalized voices! 🔗 READ: bit.ly/pw-indie-revolution
November 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
So great to see our book mentioned in this @publisherswkly.bsky.social article looking at publishers who support marginalized voices! 🔗 READ: bit.ly/pw-indie-revolution
At the Berlin Freedom Conference marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, @badiucao.bsky.social and I shared thoughts on the intersections of journalism, art, and activism — and how global Gen Z are making their voices heard. Thank you to the City of Berlin! Fight fascism! 📸 By Mo Wuestenhagen / © BFC
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
At the Berlin Freedom Conference marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, @badiucao.bsky.social and I shared thoughts on the intersections of journalism, art, and activism — and how global Gen Z are making their voices heard. Thank you to the City of Berlin! Fight fascism! 📸 By Mo Wuestenhagen / © BFC
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is fiction — but a lot of nerdy research went into it, including drawing on serious war games scenarios, as I explain in this clip from our Literaturhaus Berlin talk! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is fiction — but a lot of nerdy research went into it, including drawing on serious war games scenarios, as I explain in this clip from our Literaturhaus Berlin talk! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
🇩🇪 Berlin's Shakespeare & Sons bookshop in East Berlin and Dante Connection in Kreuzberg currently have stock of our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, for those looking during Berlin Freedom Week!
November 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🇩🇪 Berlin's Shakespeare & Sons bookshop in East Berlin and Dante Connection in Kreuzberg currently have stock of our graphic novel YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION, for those looking during Berlin Freedom Week!
Really interesting piece by @shigesaburoo.bsky.social of Nikkei about the influence Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder had on Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi:
Tears and iron: How Sanae Takaichi gained her political might
Japan's new prime minister owes more to her American mentor than she admits
asia.nikkei.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Really interesting piece by @shigesaburoo.bsky.social of Nikkei about the influence Democratic Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder had on Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi:
Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Thank you to Literaturhaus for hosting our Berlin book talk, moderated so memorably by Jakob Scherer! All part of the city’s official Berlin Freedom Week. Thank you to everyone who came out! What an incredible night! Fight fascism! 📺 WATCH: bit.ly/libe-revolution
Tomorrow is a big day for us in Berlin. @badiucao.bsky.social and I speak right after a speech by the former president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen! 😮 And in the evening — we have our first book talk in Berlin. 💛 For good vibes, here's a photo from our event in February in Taipei. What a year it's been.
November 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Tomorrow is a big day for us in Berlin. @badiucao.bsky.social and I speak right after a speech by the former president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen! 😮 And in the evening — we have our first book talk in Berlin. 💛 For good vibes, here's a photo from our event in February in Taipei. What a year it's been.
Sobering stats from Hong Kong Democracy Council: As of Oct. 31, the number of Hong Kong political prisoners has reached 1,942. 🔗 www.hkdc.us/hong-kong-po...
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Sobering stats from Hong Kong Democracy Council: As of Oct. 31, the number of Hong Kong political prisoners has reached 1,942. 🔗 www.hkdc.us/hong-kong-po...
Developing country vibes. ➡️ Nov 6 (Reuters) - United Airlines UAL.O and Delta Air Lines both started cancelling Friday flights after the Federal Aviation Administration directed reductions at 40 high-traffic U.S. airports to address air traffic control safety concerns.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Developing country vibes. ➡️ Nov 6 (Reuters) - United Airlines UAL.O and Delta Air Lines both started cancelling Friday flights after the Federal Aviation Administration directed reductions at 40 high-traffic U.S. airports to address air traffic control safety concerns.
I love Skylight Books in Los Angeles and this was my book haul last time I was there: Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! and Nicole Wong's MAHJONG, which is a how-to guide. Go read some books, people! 🌱 Social media can be fun but unplug a bit and touch grass! Read and play mahjong!
November 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I love Skylight Books in Los Angeles and this was my book haul last time I was there: Kaveh Akbar's MARTYR! and Nicole Wong's MAHJONG, which is a how-to guide. Go read some books, people! 🌱 Social media can be fun but unplug a bit and touch grass! Read and play mahjong!
🇮🇹 "It’s ironic that Meloni’s push to return Italian opera to its former glory risks weakening it." From @vanmusicmag.bsky.social by Kevin Ng:
Is Beatrice Venezi’s Appointment Really Based on Merit?
Everywhere you look, politics are seeping into opera. In New York, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, accompanied onstage by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, gave a rousing opening-night ...
van-magazine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
🇮🇹 "It’s ironic that Meloni’s push to return Italian opera to its former glory risks weakening it." From @vanmusicmag.bsky.social by Kevin Ng:
It is wild to be in Germany watching Americans acting like absolute psychos because they confuse social democracy with communism. Mamdani's economic policy is like the very boring, centrist SPD here or something.
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
It is wild to be in Germany watching Americans acting like absolute psychos because they confuse social democracy with communism. Mamdani's economic policy is like the very boring, centrist SPD here or something.
🇩🇪 Berlin! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION comes to Germany — the anniversary week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Come say hi to @badiucao.bsky.social and me at Literaturhaus this coming Monday, 10th November. 🔗 bit.ly/li-be-revolution
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
🇩🇪 Berlin! YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION comes to Germany — the anniversary week of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Come say hi to @badiucao.bsky.social and me at Literaturhaus this coming Monday, 10th November. 🔗 bit.ly/li-be-revolution
🇺🇸🇨🇳 "The first year of Trump’s second term in office may be remembered as the moment when the power dynamic between the United States and China shifted decidedly in Beijing’s favor." From @noahbarkin.bsky.social:
Watching China in Europe—November 2025
www.gmfus.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🇺🇸🇨🇳 "The first year of Trump’s second term in office may be remembered as the moment when the power dynamic between the United States and China shifted decidedly in Beijing’s favor." From @noahbarkin.bsky.social:
Reposted by Melissa Chan
Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
Reposted by Melissa Chan
"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj
Don’t blame the left for US antisemitism
[FREE TO READ] The anti-Jewish threat in America today comes largely from the right
on.ft.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"You cannot turn a blind eye to conspiracies about Satanic paedophile rings and expect the base will stop at the Protocols of the Elders of Zion." My column on the suppurating neo-Nazism on America's right. on.ft.com/4oxjjQj