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Yangyang Cheng @yangyangcheng.bsky.social · 4d

For @npr.org, I review Lou Ye's acclaimed Covid movie "An Unfinished Film," its courage in venturing into the forbidden, and limitations in what it seems unable or unwilling to confront. The Chinese people deserve better, more honest stories. The work remains unfinished.
www.npr.org/2025/10/04/g...

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · 6d

The UCLA Center for Chinese Studies roster of events for the fall quarter is coming together! Please help spread the word and look forward to seeing many friends, colleagues and students at our upcoming events: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/events

Events .::. UCLA Center for Chinese Studies

The Center for Chinese Studies promotes cutting-edge scholarship in all disciplines, fosters a research and teaching environment free from political and financial pressures, and makes the results of s...

www.international.ucla.edu

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Sophie Beach @sophiebeach.bsky.social · 15d

www.wsj.com/world/china/...

Jerome Cohen, the First American to Practice Law in China, Dies at 95

An expert on China—and a sometime critic—Cohen defended companies and dissidents.

www.wsj.com

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Aug 23

Thanks to @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and Rhoda Kwan for this thoughtful review!

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Aug 20

“When an enforced national amnesia buries historical wrongs, how should we inherit the memory of countless devastated lives?” Rhoda Kwan reviews two newly translated novels reckoning with China’s bloody past. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/howling-memories/

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Aug 12

Thanks to Angus Stewart for this thoughtful and insightful review and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho for helping get this out: chajournal.blog/2025/08/12/f...

[EXCLUSIVE] “As If Present; As If Absent: Fang Fang’s Wuhan” by Angus Stewart

📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Click HERE to read all entries in Cha on Fang Fang. Editor’s note: In this eloquent and incisive essay, Angus …

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Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Jul 6

Great detailed NPR story by @emilyzfeng.bsky.social on the discovery of a long thought lost Chinese typewriter, with @tsmullaney.bsky.social & @yangyangcheng.bsky.social adding context (& writer inventor linguist Lin Yu-tang’s granddaughter interviewed too) www.npr.org/2025/07/05/n...

How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jul 5

中国文学走出去之困境及出路—白睿文教授访谈录

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4bLmqSP7Hm...

中国文学走出去之困境及出路—白睿文教授访谈录

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thanks to Peggy McInerny and the International Institute for this profile on some of my recent work: www.international.ucla.edu/institute/ar...

Making contemporary Chinese fiction accessible to Americans

UCLA professor Michael Berry has to date translated 11 Chinese-language works of fiction, three of which were published in early 2025. Among them is "Dead Souls," the last book in a trilogy by one of ...

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 20

Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 8

Congratulations to @jwassers.bsky.social on his new book, THE MILK TEA ALLIANCE!

Jeff Wasserstrom @jwassers.bsky.social · Jun 8

👇 Out in 2 days (last pre publication event tomorrow in New York, then June 10-13 events in DC, followed by a June 28 one in L.A., a July 30 in San Francisco), excerpts from first reviews & details on some events at @columbiagr.bsky.social page for the book globalreports.columbia.edu/books/the-mi...

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 8

For a long time I’d been wondering, “what’s his end game?” And the only logical conclusion I could come up with was: trigger civil unrest, bring in the military, declare martial law, suspend elections, and don the crown. We’re almost there. Stay tuned for the coronation…

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 7

《奔跑的火光》英譯本官方網頁：https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-running-flame/9780231215015/

Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 7

《軟埋》英譯本官方網頁：https://cup.columbia.edu/book/soft-burial/9780231214995/

Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 7

經過《武漢日記》的風波之後，
很多人一聽到方方這個名字，馬上想到日記以及它當時所帶來的各種政治抱負。可惜在這個過程當中，很多人把方方老師原來的身分給忘卻。但方方首先是一位作家，一位非常獨特而且非常勇敢的作家，她的小說一直在探索其他作家很少願意面對的議題。今年《奔跑的火光》和《軟埋》兩本長篇小說的英譯本終於在英美出版了。也算是可以給海外讀者一個機會認識方方的另外一個面目，也可以擺脫疫情期間的種種誹謗和罵聲，讓讀者走進方方的小說世界。

這次特別高興應袁莉的邀請上「不明白播客」談談方方老師的《軟埋》和方方老師的小說。

youtu.be/U700nir8UhI

YouTube video by 不明白播客

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 6

This plan by Sec Rubio and the Dept of State needs to be “aggressively rejected!”

Gina Anne Tam @dgtam86.bsky.social · Jun 6

Over 700 American China scholars signed this petition calling on Sec. Rubio to reconsider plans to "aggressively revoke" PRC student visas

Beyond the points made here, there is a human cost. These students matter not just bc of US interests; they matter bc they are people
medium.com/@lawasia/pet...

Petition Against Visa Restrictions on Chinese Students

Introduction

medium.com

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 6

Video recording now live on Youtube: youtu.be/t7Khs05XP6s?...

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 5

Tomorrow: www.international.ucla.edu/ccs/event/17...

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Very happy to share the brilliant Yangyang Cheng (Yale) with I’ll join us tomorrow as discussant during our panel. @yangyangcheng.bsky.social

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

I will record it and if all speakers consent, will post to YouTube. But that depends on speakers all agreeing.

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Pleased to announce that Peter Hessler, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of such books as The Buried, River Town, Country Driving; and Other Rivers will be joining our panel on 6/5.

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on America
By Yuan Li (featuring Thomas Kellogg’s comments on this topic)
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/b...

Denying Visas to Chinese Students Could Backfire on America

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

We’ve Lost the Plot: Sinophobia and the Collateral Damage of American Primacy
by Kaiser Kuo
www.sinicapodcast.com/p/weve-lost-...

We’ve Lost the Plot: Sinophobia and the Collateral Damage of American Primacy

What Visa Bans Teach America About Itself

www.sinicapodcast.com

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard
by Peter Hessler
www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Uncertain Future of a Chinese Student at Harvard

Amid escalating threats from the Trump Administration, a student assesses whom he can turn to.

www.newyorker.com

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Sharing a few recent relevant articles from a few of our panelists in preparation for tomorrow’s event.

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Michael Berry (白睿文) @bairuiwen.bsky.social · Jun 4

Pleased to announce that Peter Hessler, staff writer at the New Yorker and author of such books as The Buried, River Town, Country Driving; and Other Rivers will be joining our panel on 6/5.

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