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NPR @npr.org · 16d

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

400 entertainers co-sign ACLU letter supporting Jimmy Kimmel

Celebrities including Pedro Pascal and Selena Gomez wrote: "Our government has resorted to threatening the livelihoods of journalists, talk show hosts, artists, creatives and entertainers."

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · 28d

Mark your calendar: Sept 23, I'll give a talk at U Michigan (zoom and in-person) on "Meanings of Zero: the Performative Logic of China's Zero-COVID Policy." This study is part of my ongoing book on disaster politics in China & a stand-alone article. Looking forward!
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Meanings of Zero: The Performative Logic of China’s Zero-COVID Policy | Happening @ Michigan

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Ongoing Project: When Millions of Bells Toll: How the World Remembers and Forgets the COVID-19 Deaths?

If you have any information related to this topic or thoughts to share, please let me know. I can be reached at [email protected]. The COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest global disaster of our time, kil…

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Aug 31

The paper is also the first publication from my project on the global memories of the COVID (binxu.net/ongoing-proj...). The project stretches my research abilities and emotional toughness to the limit and will be a book of tears and pains of my own and the world. Let me know if you need a PDF copy.

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Aug 31

Pleased to announce that my paper "Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon" (on symbolic politics around the death and mourning of Dr. Li Wenliang, an "icon of ordinariness") was published in AJCS. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sacred ordinariness: event, cultural codes, and the politics of a COVID pandemic icon - American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Iconic figures are social and cultural constructions that are usually believed to represent the sacred and/or the extraordinary, but scholars have paid less attention to “ordinary icons,” those figure...

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Aug 25

Deadline in a week! Let me know if you have any questions.

Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 28

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Aug 3

Reposting this call for contributions. Abstract by September 1, 2025!

Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 28

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Jul 1

Reposting this Call for Contributions to an edited volume. Deadline for abstracts: Sept 1, 2025

Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 28

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Jun 11

binxu.net/ongoing-proj...

Ongoing Project: When Millions of Bells Toll: How the World Remembers and Forgets the COVID-19 Deaths?

If you have any information related to this topic or thoughts to share, please let me know. I can be reached at [email protected]. The COVID-19 pandemic, the biggest global disaster of our time, kil…

binxu.net

Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 29

我原來以為還有一頓

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 29

聽起來有人要買單的意思？

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 29

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 28

Call For Contributions to an Edited Volume
Trauma, Reconciliation, and Mnemonic Justice in Modern China
Bin Xu (Emory)
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt)
Thomas B. Gold (Berkeley)
Abstract by September 1, 2025. Full paper by March 31, 2026. Volume to the press summer 2026. Details: binxu.net/call-for-con...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 25

Today marks five years since George Floyd was killed by police. Our June 22, 2020 cover “Say Their Names,” by Kadir Nelson, illustrated how Floyd’s murder embodies the history of violence inflicted upon Black people in America. nyer.cm/UmfefJw

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 27

Congrats!

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 24

Pleased to share my new article in Social Problems (w/ two stellar graduate students Lingxiao Chen and Xueqia Zhang):
"How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement"
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How to Say “Black Lives Matter” in Chinese?: Race, Democracy, and Discourses of a Movement

ABSTRACT. How are social movements that address democratic states’ wrongdoings and violence perceived and discussed by the publics under authoritarian regi

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 23

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Trump administration halts Harvard’s ability to enroll international students

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem posts copy of department’s letter to university on X

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 17

at least have a group drinking session with 黃酒

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 17

well, should we do a Hangzhou or West Lake panel right before next ASA? LOL

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 17

Our paths didn't cross in school. Also, in different generations. I went to Hangzhou High (No.1) for 6 years. It's good to know a few other fellow sociologists from Hangzhou!

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · May 17

the fourth here. which high school did you go to?

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NPR @npr.org · May 1

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Apr 17

You must be kidding me, a grant reviewer at Emory: "qualitative work is important only if it helps contextualize quantitative evidence. Absent this, it’s just stories."

a monster from the movie monsters inc asks is that a joke

ALT: a monster from the movie monsters inc asks is that a joke

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Bin Xu. Emory University @binxu013.bsky.social · Apr 7

economic downturn+unemployed, uneduated, & hateful mob+scapegoating a certain group-->a war to divert attention. that was not just Germany in the 1930s

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · Apr 2

In a world of increasing frequency, magnitude & impact of disasters, we do well to remember:

“individuals & groups are not born vulnerable: they are rendered vulnerable through processes of social marginalization & exclusion.”

Kathleen Tierney’s indispensable new edition is OUT NOW ↓

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