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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing)
@ericderoulet.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary PhD candidate. Hopefully not a permanent condition. I research migration, international higher edu., Qing/modern Chinese/Taiwanese intellectual history, and more. Keeper of cats. https://ericderoulet.scholar.st/ 無論什麼時代都在心裡喊叫。
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · Jun 29
I have a little book review out in @asiancha.bsky.social on Taiwan in Dynamic Transition by Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (eds.), mainly on how the anthology treats Taiwan as a country worth understanding in its own right and not merely as a subject of great powers conflict.
[REVIEW] “Taiwan’s Political Evolution and the Study of Comparative Politics as seen in 𝑇𝑎𝑖𝑤𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑦𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑐 𝑇𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛” by Eric D. de Roulet
📁 RETURN TO FIRST IMPRESSIONS📁 RETURN TO CHA REVIEW OF BOOKS AND FILMS Ryan Dunch and Ashley Esarey (editors), Taiwan in Dynamic Transition: Nation Building and Democratization,…
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 20h
𝑇𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 unfurls a nightmarish vision of lovers dissolving into a single body. When it opened in China on 19 September, the film was reshaped: not only were its sex scenes excised, but an AI face-swapping sleight turned a same-sex wedding into a heterosexual union.

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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 20h
Gotta love it, always, when it's leaked to the press that the authorities are super mad about leaks to the press
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 20h
One of my favorite comedic forms, as seen in @zeteo.com

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Excerpt from the linked article: So far, the effort to intimidate leakers is not going well. Inside the government, staffers and leakers have responded to the crackdown with defiance, three Defense Department staffers and two other sources familiar with the situation tell Zeteo. Put another way, those staffers and sources were immediately compelled to leak their thoughts and other details to a media outlet.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a revealing thing because it *is* what many want in terms of the relationship to immigrants
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers
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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d
It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.
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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 2d
"peace through strength"
- the current US of defense or war or whatever it is now, Oct 5th, 2025, apparently.

I can hardly tell whether some of these people really read literature and identify with the villains or they've merely absorbed context-free catchphrases through cultural osmosis.
Pete Hegseth may have spilled the beans on the upcoming National Defense Strategy
Did the Secretary of War just reveal his strategic priorities between the homeland, China, and Russia in a Fox News interview at a football field?
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 3d
Quite a thoughtful piece by Aaron Stoller commenting on the erosion of academic freedom (guess where) and how protections are especially lacking for staff with academic roles, such as uni librarians.
Academic Staff Need Academic Freedom, Too (opinion)
Colleges cannot continue to operate as if all staff work is identical, Aaron Stoller writes.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 3d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 4d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses the nature of totalitarianism as depicted in @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay... kinda feels timely...

www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text, which says ... the imperial system is propped up by ideological frames that rationalise and valorise the wants of the core while dehumanizing those living on the periphery. Such rationales are recorded by and embodied in Tzajos in the novella One Message Remains... "Lives Under Empire: Imperial Subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 4d
The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.
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Kevin @kmichaelwilson.bsky.social · 3d
🔥 ICYMI (including a thread of recent Ming-Qing literature-related blog posts)
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Rereading the Stone (Podcast) @rereadingstone.bsky.social · 4d
🎙️ episode drop🎙️ Chapter 43 part 1

This chapter admits of dualities? So here in part 1 we cover the first half (gold 金), which involves some extensive bickering over money (including an eyebrow-raising subscription scheme to raise funds for Xifeng’s birthday…)

www.buzzsprout.com/1269965/epis...
the whole gang, from the 1980s classic TV rendition of Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢/ 石頭記
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d
“Laurie Eckman, 84, said she and her husband Richard Eckman, also 84 and a Vietnam war veteran, were rushed by federal officers “for no apparent reason.” She said her husband was leaning on his walker and wearing his Vietnam veterans cap as he was pushed to the ground.”
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest
An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.
About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported
About four-in-ten immigrants (43%) say they worry a lot or some, up from 33% in March.
www.pewresearch.org
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 5d
A wonderful companion resource site created by our research librarians Matthew Hayes and Adhitya Dhanapal, on the Immigration Act of 1965 and its legacies
sites.duke.edu/aadssymposium/
Duke AADS Symposium
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The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 4d
IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."
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Tammy Lai-Ming Ho @myetcetera.bsky.social · 26d
⧉ 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗧 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗛𝗔𝗜. We'd love to publish reviews of these books in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2025/26. Together they summon Shanghai in print & plate: women’s gaze in newsprint, lantern posters, montage intoxication, camera-shadow, capitalist type.From presses to neon bloom, a city flowering in ink.
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 4d
Apropos of this:
The Imperial Boomerang: How colonial methods of repression migrate bac
It should never be forgotten that colonization […] had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West […] A whole series of colonial models was brought back to the West. Michel...
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 4d
I must say, I don't think the "but the economy" types are gonna enjoy the return of the Imperial Boomerang as much as they think they will.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d
Beyond the fact that legal immigrants and tourists can attend the Super Bowl, I find it absolutely hilarious that they're gonna have ICE harassing a bunch of rich people. Tickets are almost $10k.

Please own the libs harder.
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Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d
@ericderoulet.bsky.social discusses @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains collection in this new (free!) essay: www.speculativeinsight.com
Purple background, white text. One Message Remains is a meaningful addition to the body of literary and scholarly works on imperialism and dictatorship, not least because the collection lends clarity to some of the questions that trouble us most... "Lives under Empire: Imperial subjugation and resistance as depicted in One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed" -- Eric de Roulet
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Aug 24
I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 5d
@xuetingni.bsky.social My apologies if you find the tag annoying, but: I've followed your work on Chinese SFFH fiction for a while, and I wonder whether anybody in your circles would be interested in a PhD or post-doc for this Sinofantasy research project in Germany.
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 5d
Oh, and they're seeking a PhD student for the Sinofantasy project as well.
A PhD candidate posting for the same research project (see previous post): PhD Candidate (m/f/d) <2 Wochen Teilzeit Ausbildung The Department of Chinese Studies is looking for a PhD Candidate (m/f/d) Bewerbungsfrist: 21. Oktober 2025 Veröffentlichungsdatum: 5. September 2025 Eintrittstermin: 1. Januar 2026 Arbeitsumfang: Part-time position (60 %) Kennziffer: 00004514 Beschreibung Subproject: “SINOFANTASY – Escapism in contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction” The ERC-funded project SINOFANTASY (Starting Grant #101220119, PI Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jessica Imbach) investigates the rise and impact of contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction,
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Eric D. de Roulet (should be writing) @ericderoulet.bsky.social · 5d
This is easily the coolest postdoc posting I've seen in a while, but it's a bit outside my wheelhouse and my dissertation timeline. The University ot Freiburg (universität-freiburg) is seeking a researcher on contemporary Chinese fantasy fiction and then some.

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Screencap of a post-doc job ad (for a German university, but they're taking applications in English): Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) The Department of Chinese Studies is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d) Bewerbungsfrist: 21 October 2025 Eintrittstermin: 01. Januar 2026 Arbeitsumfang: Part-time position (70 %) Subproject: “SINOFANTASY – Fantasy fiction across the Chinese mediasphere (platforms, creative labor, fandom, participatory culture, transmediality)”
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8d
COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook.

"Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"
The Public Scholar
A Practical Handbook
www.press.jhu.edu
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Simon McNeil @simonm223.bsky.social · 9d
Protip: The other way to get jstor without limits on articles is a Wikipedia Library membership. You need extended confirmed status as a Wikipedia editor to access tho.
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