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The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 5d

Delighted that Joseph Torigian (@josephtorigian.bsky.social) will be joining us in Glasgow for
our Scottish Centre for China Research seminar series.

Join us! Wed 8 Oct 4pm UK time

To join online register via link at:
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Seminar by Dr Joseph Torigian, American University in Washington & University of Michigan, 8 October 2025

Discussing How We Understand and Study Chinese Foreign Policy

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 8d

Happening in half an hour…still time to register to join online

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 13d

Excited that Scottish Centre for China Research (SCCR) will host @andreaghiselli.bsky.social for a talk “Discussing How We Understand and Study Chinese Foreign Policy”

When: Tuesday Sept 30th 4pm U.K. time

Join us online by registering at:

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Seminar by Dr Andrea Ghiselli, University of Exeter, 30 September 2025

Discussing How We Understand and Study Chinese Foreign Policy

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 13d

Excited that Scottish Centre for China Research (SCCR) will host @andreaghiselli.bsky.social for a talk “Discussing How We Understand and Study Chinese Foreign Policy”

When: Tuesday Sept 30th 4pm U.K. time

Join us online by registering at:

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Seminar by Dr Andrea Ghiselli, University of Exeter, 30 September 2025

www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 16d

Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China

Seminar by Yu Sun, University of Glasgow, 24 September 2025

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCCR Seminar 24 September 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 16d

Still time to register to attend online if you’re not in Glasgow!

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 18d

Scottish Centre for China Studies autumn seminar series starts next week

Dr Yu Sun (Uni of Glasgow)

Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China

Wed 24 Sept, 4–5.30pm
Register online: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Speaker: Yu Sun, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow

uofglasgow.zoom.us

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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 18d

This is still an ongoing project with Dr Wilfred Yang Wang @ichbinwill.bsky.social We try to conceptualize techno-moral governance in digital China. It’s exciting work but find theorizing empirical evidence is so challenging! Hopefully, will get there gradually! Welcome to attend if you are around🥂

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 18d

Scottish Centre for China Studies autumn seminar series starts next week

Dr Yu Sun (Uni of Glasgow)

Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China

Wed 24 Sept, 4–5.30pm
Register online: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCCR Seminar 24 September 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Speaker: Yu Sun, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow

uofglasgow.zoom.us

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCCR Seminar 24 September 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · 18d

Scottish Centre for China Studies autumn seminar series starts next week

Dr Yu Sun (Uni of Glasgow)

Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China

Wed 24 Sept, 4–5.30pm
Register online: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Speaker: Yu Sun, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow

uofglasgow.zoom.us

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Aug 13

lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/2025/08/now-...

Now Available: Open Access Special issue What is Xi Jinping Thought on Rule of Law? in the Hague Journal on Rule of Law

A blog about globalization, governance, law, corporations, religion and culture in changing times.

lcbackerblog.blogspot.com

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Aug 8

Wrote a thing about CCP “Party law” and its logic. Really happy to have it in The Hague Journal on the Rule of Law (open access)

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reddening Cheeks and Inducing Sweat: The Logic of Party Law in Xi Jinping’s China - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law

The Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping has spent the past 13 years creating an “intraparty regulatory system,” or what this article calls “Party law.” Scholars ascribe different meanings to this...

link.springer.com

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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · May 14

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically when access is restricted by geopolitics and tech rivalry? In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social draws on fieldwork in Switzerland to propose creative methods and a socio-technical lens for researching ICT firms in Europe and beyond.

Polymorphous Engagement with Global China: Researching Contested Chinese Companies in Western Europe

This essay explores how we can ethnographically study contested Chinese multinationals when access is limited due to geopolitical sensitivities and technological competition. I argue that, despite the...

globalchinapulse.net

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British Association for Chinese Studies 英国汉学协会 @chinesestudies.bsky.social · May 9

𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲
#BACS invites our members who are early career researchers to submit an original research paper for consideration for the 2025 BACS ECR Prize. Deadline: June 02
Please share widely with others!
Details on our FB page: www.facebook.com/bacsuk.org.u...

British Association for Chinese Studies

𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗦 𝗘𝗖𝗥 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) invites early career researchers to submit an original research paper for consideration for the.....

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · May 9

The British Association for Chinese Studies has announced the call for its 2025 Early Career Researcher Prize

www.facebook.com/bacsuk.org.u...

British Association for Chinese Studies

𝗕𝗔𝗖𝗦 𝗘𝗖𝗥 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) invites early career researchers to submit an original research paper for consideration for the.....

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Apr 25

All Sages book shop has moved from Chengfu Lu to the U Center department store in Wudaokou. You wouldn’t know from inside that it’s next to a noisy arcade. Still well worth a visit.

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Mar 14

mp.weixin.qq.com/s/USH1Scx9XF...

越南这次动真格了！苏林一口气砍掉50%的省，紧急停止干部任命

mp.weixin.qq.com

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 28

I did, here, archive.org/details/fbis..., thank you!
(Thanks to @markparkeryoung.bsky.social)

Unclassified-FBIS Daily Report China : United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

FBIS-CHI-87-228PREX 7.10:FBIS-CHI-87-228Digitized from IA1177314-12-0027.

archive.org

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 27

Ooh good question!

Call for papers – BACS 2025

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 27

Lovely place (though I’m biased as it’s close to my mum’s hometown)

Did you present? Would’ve loved to see that!

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 27

British Association for Chinese Studies annual conference 2025 has extended deadline.

New deadline for call for papers/panels 28 March.

Details: bacs2025.le.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

bacs2025.le.ac.uk

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 21

BACS annual conference at University of Leicester 3-5 September

Deadline coming up for submissions 28 Feb bacs2025.le.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

Call for papers – BACS 2025

bacs2025.le.ac.uk

Call for papers – BACS 2025

Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Feb 21

BACS annual conference at University of Leicester 3-5 September

Deadline coming up for submissions 28 Feb bacs2025.le.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

bacs2025.le.ac.uk

With US funding freeze, China nonprofits are facing extinction. They need emergency assistance | The Strategist

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · Feb 7

With US funding freeze, China nonprofits are facing extinction: they need emergency assistance – The ASPI Strategist: ‘An entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis.’

An entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. When the Trump administration froze foreign funding and USAID programs last week, dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, a...

www.aspistrategist.org.au

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · Feb 5

My biography of Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, will be released with @stanfordpress.bsky.social Series on Authoritarianism on June 3. It has new material for people interested Chinese elite politics, generational/family politics, Tibet, Xinjiang..

www.amazon.com/Partys-Inter...

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Holly Snape @hollysnapewang.bsky.social · Jan 31

thediplomat.com/2025/01/viet...

Vietnam’s Bureaucratic ‘Revolution’: Rationales and Challenges

Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost.

thediplomat.com