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Nick Admussen
@nadmussen.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Chinese literature at Cornell, poet, translator. My current project is "On Stricture: Chinese Poetry and American Culture." More (incl links to open-access research) at nickadmussen.com.
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Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social · 22h
If your Thursday needs a boost, can I recommend the delightful Jin Shengtan's 金聖嘆 "Thirty-three Nice Things", translated by @bokane.org?

www.burninghou.se/p/whats-good

— if that’s not nice, what is?
What's Good? A Collection of Small Nice Things
Everything is awful, the dynasty is collapsing, and the vibes are fucked. Other people have been here before. Here's a few of Jin Shengtan's favorite things to distract you.
www.burninghou.se
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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 20h
Yangyang Cheng is one of them most astute, insightful, and sensitive writers chronicling the political, cultural, and technological life of China today. I am so honored that she took the time to read and review these two novels by Fang Fang.

chinabooksreview.com/2025/10/09/f...
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 22h
𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 to László Krasznahorkai, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature.

While most of Krasznahorkai’s fiction is set in Europe or expresses more universal existential themes, a few of his works reach out to East Asia with striking intensity.

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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 22h
I touched on it in this essay (www.nickadmussen.com/uploads/8/6/...) where I argued that it helps us see contemporary Chinese poetry as structured in part around events and actions rather than texts--and the failure of people at a modernist distance (Moretti) to understand the difference.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 22h
The new Nobel laureate Laszlo Krasznahorkai has a pretty interesting novel about traveling to meet contemporary Chinese poets (Xi Chuan, Ouyang Jianghe, others) called _Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens_. Lucas Klein's review in @asiancha.bsky.social here: www.asiancha.com/content/view...
Cha: An Asian Literary Journal - Taken as Strictly True: Neuroscience and Sinology in Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens
Cha is a Hong Kong-based online literary quarterly journal dedicated to publishing quality poetry, short stories, creative non-fiction, drama, and reviews written in English, as well as photography an...
www.asiancha.com
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
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violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · 1d
Yan Lianke may not be a Nobel laureate (yet!!) but he's the hedgehog of my heart 🦔 🦔

www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10...
Notes from a Hedgehog by Yan Lianke
October 7, 2025 – “Since turning sixty, I’ve thought about death every single day.”
www.theparisreview.org
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 2d
Or: give in. "Golden" is great for responding to Reviewer #2.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 2d
Agreed, b/c also our rich foods are much more haunted now. I want to read what happens after someone eats a Buttery Smashed Jack at like 11:45 PM.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 2d
Heard this song played live behind a sandwich shop in Danby, it's been running through my head ever since: sarahnoell.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont...

"In my dreams I'm sleeping
on a train to Brooklyn
miss my stop on purpose
join you at the circus
I want to have your baby
haven't called you lately..."
I Don't Worry, by Sarah Noell
from the album Good Dog
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 6d
This comic strip by Rivi Handler-Spitz v. much captures the situation and feelings of a lot of Chinese students in the U.S. right now, and ends in a hope I share, that the rest of us will value their contributions and fight for their right to be educated. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Visa Chaos: A Graphic Narrative (opinion)
A graphic narrative written and drawn by Rivi Handler-Spitz.
www.insidehighered.com
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 10d
Last week our AAUP chapter wrote to our president in response to their repression of speech on campus. The student suspensions from the past two years set the stage for straight up censorship of today
GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"
The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 10d
Really need to emphasize that the faculty Senate committee reviewed the case, determined he should not be punished, and the admin unilaterally overrode that decision. De-democratization of the university inevitably leads to erosion of academic freedom
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 10d
In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13d
"Here," the writing teacher said. "Try reading this story by Ling Ma instead of thinking about law school right now." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Office Hours
A short story
www.theatlantic.com
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 14d
Yeah, that's delicate. One dark pattern I've encountered is sending my evidence to a committee --> committee forwards the email to the student --> student fixes or deletes the citations and wants to move forward as if nothing happened. So I wouldn't send _all_ your evidence.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 14d
I'd appreciate it if it was my advisee. Sometimes faculty are less up-to-date on new technology, and they are rightly partial to + trusting of their own advisees.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 14d
Yes. In my experience, hallucinations stand as incontrovertible evidence all the way up the org chart at most institutions. If you have connections to the student's advisor, reach out to them first, but in my book ringing the bell on this stuff is and should be seen as service to the field.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 15d
If the makers of Tylenol bought enough Trumpcoin, they’d be telling us that it prevents autism.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
4b. These are owners trusting other owners, grifters believing they’re on the same side of the grift.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
4a. It is shockingly trusting for a British prince to have illegal sex in a place that could be wired for video and sound; it’s shockingly credulous for Ezra Klein to praise Charlie Kirk; it’s surprisingly self-destructive that American business took a “wait and see” attitude towards tariffs.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
4. The party of Epstein is not limited, though, to Epstein’s actual friends and clients. It runs on a feeling of intimacy created by elite ownership and extends far past Epstein’s social circles. Solidarity with and by very rich people helped Epstein survive for so long.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
3. The Epstein party is in and of the very rich. His lying, posturing, manipulation, and the thinness of his grift are common in-group values and the rewards of successful grifting are seen as evidence of special excellence. Wexner, Dubin, Prince Andrew, Clinton, Trump, they all LIKED this guy.
A fawning page from Epstein's birthday book in which AI researcher Marvin Minsky pastes a chart of deliberative processes under "Jeffrey E." in big letters at the top. Below he writes, "There are six billion intellects on Earth, but this is the quickest one I've met (aside from Issac Asimov)." Epstein gave money to Minsky's labs and invited him to the island several times.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
2b. Rubio, Romney, Vance, and many other Republicans may hate Trump, but they make up a key part of the Epstein Party because they consent to be owned. Perhaps they think it will be temporary. Maybe they’re afraid. But their willingness to eat shit and smile makes them Epstein Party members.
Mitt Romney's 2016 meeting with Donald Trump, right around the time he accepted Trump's endorsement for Utah Senate and stepped back from his previous criticisms. Romney looks humiliated; Trump is grinning.
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Nick Admussen @nadmussen.bsky.social · 18d
2. The Epstein Party specializes in converting that which can’t normally be bought or owned into something that can. One of Epstein’s friends from his younger days said “I think Jeffrey liked to corrupt people.” (www.motherjones.com/politics/202...)
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